Jodie Noel Vinson reviews and recommends travel literature as Managing Editor of Longitude Books, an online travel bookstore based in Minneapolis. Her essays and reviews have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Rain Taxi, among other places. She is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Emerson College, where she wrote a book about her travels to literary sites around the world.