Professional/Personal Overview
Travel writer, food writer, journalist and novelist, published in more than 80 magazines and newspapers. My travel writing has been anthologized in "Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The New York Times" and "Best Food Writing 2007," and has also appeared in Outside, The Atlantic, Afar, Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Adventure, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times Magazine, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, Men's Journal, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Saveur, Lexus, Robb Report, Cigar Aficionado, Scuba Diving, Sport Diver, Islands, Caribbean Travel & Life, among others. Features, columns and reviews have also appeared in Men's Health, Playboy, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mirabella, Redbook, and Entertainment Weekly. Additionally, my novel, "Sasso," set in Italy and also based on a New York Times travel article, was one of The Sunday Telegraph's top books of 2001 and published in eight countries.
Work Info
Expertise
Book Author
14 Years
Reporter
24 Years
Writer
22 Years
Specialty
Food
24 Years
Sports & Recreation
24 Years
Travel
24 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
22 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
Shermans Travel (11+), Reach (11+), Mediabistro (11+), Afar (11+), Fathom (11+), The Wall Street Journal (11+), The Atlantic (6-10), New York Magazine (6-10), Outside (6-10), Robb Report (3-5), Scuba Diving (3-5), National Geographic Adventure (3-5), National Geographic Traveler (3-5), Ensemble Lifestyles (3-5), Islands (3-5), Leite's Culinaria (3-5), Lexus Magazine (3-5), Calabasas/Statement (3-5), Caribbean Travel + Life (3-5), Cigar Aficionado (1-2), Culture + Travel (1-2), Alimentum Journal (1-2), Atmosphere (1-2), McSweeney's Internet Tendency (1-2), Executive Travel (1-2), Hamptons (1-2), Hemispheres (1-2), Inspirato (1-2), Men's Journal (1-2), Meridian (1-2), Mystery Readers Journal (1-2), Sport Diver (1-2), Saveur (1-2), Rave (1-2), The Huffington Post (1-2), The New York Times (1-2), Travel + Leisure (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
?Whatif! The Innovation Company (1-2), IgoUgo (1-2), Society of American Travel Writers (1-2)
Other Work History
Staffer at Vanity Fair, assigning editor at Swing, contributing editor at Manhattan File and Lexus Magazines, guest editor at Blue.
Technical Skills
PADI Divemaster; Nitrox, Dry Suit, and Ice Diver; PFI Freediver
Equipment
Digital camera with underwater housing, digital voice recorder, scanner, scuba equipment, enthusiasm, shoes
Foreign Language Skills
Fluent Italian, proficient Spanish, awkward French
Unions
Authors Guild
Awards
Best Food Writing 2007
Associations
Authors Guild, International Association of Crime Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Professional Association of Diving Instructors
Other
Please visit www.jamessturz.com for more information about me, or www.rolfpotts.com/writers/sturz.php for a recent interview.
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
(The Atlantic , 5/1/2012)
In February 2012, I traveled to Hawaii's Big Island to learn to "free dive," or scuba dive without the scuba. My classmates included two Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructors, three triathletes, and a wildlands firefighter who looked like Thor. My goal was to make it to 100 feet, straight-down.
(The Atlantic , 1/1/2012)
In August 2011, I traveled to Bhutan to watch the national sport of archery in action. I'm not sure about suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but, boy, those little things are sharp. Plus they shoot them from 476 feet away, twice the Olympic distance.
(Afar , 1/1/2011)
Goat racing is taken very seriously on the Caribbean island of Tobago, which explains why a $19-million goat-racing stadium was built. I couldn't resist flying down for the championships and a look. And also for some goat curry. Honorable mention in "The Best American Sports Writing 2012."
(Afar , 9/1/2009)
The tale of my trip to Wales to track down my old Welsh au pair and compete in the 2008 World Bog Snorkeling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells. Winner of honorable mention in "The Best American Sports Writing 2010."
(Executive Travel , 5/1/2009)
The editor asked me to name my five favorite scuba vacations around the world. I didn't say no!
(Robb Report , 1/1/2009)
In fall 2008, I drove the back roads between Rome and Milan in a trio of vintage Italian sportscars, including a 1964 Lancia Flaminia Superleggera, a 1966 Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider, and a 1958 Fiat Abarth Zagato. They all were beautiful, but you never forget your first.
(Leite's Culinaria , 3/1/2007)
I like meat, and that's what this is about. It was anthologized in "Best Food Writing 2007."
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