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Tom Swick
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Tom Swick
Travel Editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Author
Columnist Thomas Swick was born in Easton, PA, in 1952.He grew up in Phillipsburg, NJ, and received a B.A. in English literature from Villanova University in 1974.After studying in Aix-en-Provence, working on a farm in Alsace and teaching English in Warsaw, he returned to the States and has been the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel since 1989.Swick's work has appeared in The American Scholar, The North American Review, The Oxford American, Columbia Journalism Review, Commonweal, Ploughshares, Boulevard, The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, National Geographic Traveler, and Travel & Leisure.His travel stories have been included in The Best American Travel Writing 2001, 2002 and 2004, and will also be included in the forthcoming 2008 collection.He is the author of two books: a travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland (recently translated into Polish) and a collection of travel stories, A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler.