Susan McKee is an independent scholar and freelance journalist specializing in history, culture and travel.

She writes for a wide variety of publications, both print and online. Recent bylines have appeared in Vagobond, The Travelers Way, WatchBOOM, JaxFax, GoNOMAD, Luxury Web, HGTV's Front Door, Road Trips for Foodies, and Texas' Tribune newspapers. Under pseudonyms, she writes for several publications, including Road Trips for Gardeners, and Road Trips for Wine.

She has been the U.S./Canada correspondent for JaxFax, and remains a contributing writer at this magazine for travel agents. Susan was the culinary travel editor of both iStopOver Magazine and Planet Eye, and has served as Editor-At-Large for the U.S. edition of Business Traveler, ghostwrote more than a year's worth of consumer newsletters at Kayak.com, and spent 12 months writing daily copy in a half-dozen markets for LivingSocial.

Her writings also have appeared in Global Traveler USA, Wine Enthusiast, Venice Gondolier-Sun, Chicago SunTimes, German Life, Golf Connoisseur, Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, Cincinnati Enquirer, several daily and weekly publications of 21st Century Newspapers (Michigan), AAA Living, Travel Savvy, Kentucky Monthly, Journey and many more newspapers, magazines and ezines, including Road and Travel and Bonjour Paris.

Susan honed her craft as a general assignment reporter for more than a decade at a major metropolitan daily newspaper before fleeing corporate journalism for the peripatetic life of a freelancer. Although a third-generation Chicagoan (where she attended both Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago), she graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles, snagged one master's degree at Indiana University and another at Purdue University. She makes Indianapolis her home base.

Book projects have included some scholarly works as well as contributions to a National Geographic book on Sacred Spaces, a AAA guide to Chicago, a Scripps Interactive guide to Indianapolis, and NorthStar Intelliguides for both Indianapolis and Indiana.

Contact Susan McKee by email: Susan@SusanMcKee.com.