Inga Aksamit is an award-winning author and travel writer based in California. A lifelong adventurer and former oncology nurse, she writes about active travel, culture, and human connection, drawing on a childhood spent living abroad in Asia and South America as a third-culture kid. Her memoir, Between Worlds: An Expat’s Quest for Belonging, won an International Impact Award. She is also the author of Highs and Lows on the John Muir Trail and The Hungry Spork, both winners of best book awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of California.