Laura Olcelli is a freelance travel writer/journalist currently based in the UK. She has a PhD in English focused on travel literature and has published widely about literary criticism applied to travel writing, including the award-winning book Questions of Authority: Italian and Australian Travel Narratives of the Long Nineteenth Century. Laura was born in Italy, has lived in five countries and travelled to over 45. You can read her work on Matador Network, Intrepid Times, and more.