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About Kate Wickers
Kate has been a journalist and travel writer for over twenty years, writing features on travel, culture, and food for a variety of publications. Her family travel memoir, Shape of a Boy, My Family & Other Adventures, published in 2022, was listed by National Geographic Traveller in “The best travel books for 2022”.
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