Dustin Grinnell's personal essays go deep into his psyche, exposing wounds and aspirations from deepest childhood, wrestling with illness, relationships, authority, and disappointments. While travel publications like Intrepid Times can be reluctant to publish these kinds of deeply personal memoirs/reflections (or, as Dustin calls it, autoethnography) Dustin's stories have achieved recognition and a wide audience, being published in Outside Magazine, Perceptive Travel, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and elsewhere. Dustin achieved this while maintaining a decades-long career as a marketing writer for major corporations and institutions.

On the latest episode of the Travel Writing Podcast, Dustin talks about balancing his creative travel writing and introspective essays with his copywriting day job, how he makes his personal essays interesting and appealing to a wide audience, and the many lessons he has learned from writing, reading, and travel. Listen here on Intrepid Times or subscribe on Spotify or iTunes Dustin's book, published by Peter Lang, is Lost & Found, Reflections on Travel, Career, Love, and Family. It is available now.