Inca

The Last Train Stop Before Machu Picchu

Kirsten Koza / January 5, 2015

Mummies, Mysteries and Thrills Along Peru’s Gringo Trail: Part 2 (from my Peru series, published in TheBlot magazine,…

The Inca Tale Machu Picchu Writing Workshop in Peru, November 2014

Kirsten Koza / May 25, 2014

THIS EXPEDITION WAS COMPLETED IN 2014 The Inca Tale Writing Workshop in Peru: a six-day writing workshop for women,…

In bookstores!

Wake Up and Smell the Shit: Hilarious Travel Disasters, Monstrous Toilets and a Demon Dildo edited by "the Canadian lunatic" Kirsten Koza.

"A hilarious journey to the other side of travel - A collection of rollicking tales by veteran travel writers who share the common, horrific side of travel. You'll laugh, shudder and wince. A must read." - Deston Nokes (Travel Writer)

"Forged in a Den of Scum and Villainy..."
Read this review and a sample at Amazon.

Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR by Kirsten Koza

CBC Radio Canada declares Koza’s Lost in Moscow “the ultimate what-I-did-last-summer essay ever.”

CHRY radio Toronto says “Kirsten Koza is like Judy Blume on acid.”

Lost in Moscow is now available as an e-book from Kindle and Kobo internationally.

Kirsten’s adventure “Mare’s Milk, Mountain Bikes, Meteors & Mammaries; a nipply night in nomad’s land” has been published by Travelers' Tales in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, a collection of the best travel stories from 2012.

Click here to see photos from Kirsten’s cycling expedition in Kyrgyzstan.

Kirsten’s story “Easter Island and the Chilean with the Brazilian” is in Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana.

Click here to see photos from Kirsten’s Easter Island bike trip.

Kirsten’s story “Chasing Tornadoes” is in The Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 9.