Nicholas DeRenzo

Nicholas DeRenzo is a Brooklyn-based contributing editor at Afar who reports on travel, culture, food and drink, and wildlife and conservation, with a special interest in birds. He has worked in travel media for 17 years, most recently as the executive editor at Hemispheres, the in-flight magazine of United Airlines, and his bylines have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, BBC, and Time. You can follow along on his travel (and birdwatching) adventures on Instagram at @nderenzo.