On the High Seas with Travel Writer Chaney Kwak

In his debut, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to
Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship (Godine,
June 2021),  longtime travel writer Chaney Kwak recounts
his harrowing experiences on board the Viking Sky cruise ship
that, in 2019, nearly capsized. 


Chaney was living in Berlin, Germany, and freelancing for
publications such as The New York Times when he
began his MFA studies in fiction at Lesley University. He has
contributed to Condé Nast Traveler, Afar, Travel &
Leisure, and a number of National
Geographic anthologies. His fiction has appeared
in Zyzzyva, Catamaran Literary Review,
Gertrude, and other literary journals, earning a special
mention from the Pushcart Prize. A winner of the Key West
Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards, he has received
scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and other
literary workshops. Visit his author website.


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