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Mark Johanson is an American journalist who’s lived in Santiago, Chile, for more than a decade. His stories about travel, adventure, food, design and the environment have appeared in numerous magazines (Travel + Leisure, Robb Report, Food & Wine, Dwell, Newsweek), newspapers (The Guardian, Sunday Times, FT, Chicago Tribune), digital publications (Punch, Narratively, Atlas Obscura), inflights (Hemispheres, Qantas) and global news outlets (National Geographic, Bloomberg, CNN, BBC). He has co-authored more than two-dozen Lonely Planet travel guides and coffee table books, worked as a presenter for Lonely Planet’s video channel, and been featured as an authority on travel writing in podcasts and books, including Travel Writing 2.0.

Mark’s first literary work, Mars on Earth, was published in 2024 by Rocky Mountain Books. The photo-rich hardcover follows a 1,200-mile odyssey into the heart of the world’s driest non-polar desert ― the Atacama. National Geographic called it “an evocative travel memoir,” while Geographical Magazine named it one of the best travel books of 2024. You can learn more about Mars on Earth in this Q&A with AFAR Magazine.

Mark is currently out on the road experiencing/enduring the wild world of freelance journalism. Feel free to drop him a line and say hi.