Andrea Zelinski

Andrea Zelinski is a senior editor covering cruises for Travel Weekly. Previously, she was a politics writer for Texas Monthly, and before that she was hiking the Appalachian Trail, traveling a ribbon of dirt and stone for 2,193 miles stretching Maine to Georgia. She has written about politics for the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News and Tennessee state government for the Nashville Scene and its sister publications. She won an award from the Association of Alternative News Media for a series on growing pains in Nashville’s schools. Andrea holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield and reported on Illinois government, including the impeachment of then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich for trying to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat for the Associated Press. She swears he winked at her after pleading his case to the state Senate. A midwestern native, she lives with her two hairy pups, Vuda and Buster.