Thomas Swick is the author of a travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland (1991, Ticknor & Fields), and a collection of travel stories. His work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Oxford American, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, The Wilson Quarterly, and many others. From 1989 to 2008, Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and the newspaper’s name appeared in every edition of The Best American Travel Writing from its inauguration in 2000 to 2008, the year that he left the paper.