NYC-based adventure, luxury, lifestyle and profile writer Margie Goldsmith, a Lowell Thomas Journalist of the Year, has hiked, biked, paddled, climbed, run marathons, done triathlons, Scuba dived, ziplined, Zorbed Coasteered (climbing, jumping and swimming a rocky coastline in Wales) Deepelled (upside down rappelling in New Brunswick) and test-driven $250,000 supercars. Goldsmith has conducted interviews on all seven continents in 145 countries, including Uganda, The Marquesas, South Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Oman, Cuba, Tibet, Nepal, Borneo, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Easter Island, Croatia, Namibia, the Arctic and Antarctica. She is a contributor to Business Jet Traveler, and Wine, Dine & Travel. Her articles appear in Forbes.com, Travel + Leisure, Robb Report, Business Jet Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, Hemispheres, Coastal Living, Virtuoso, Wall Street Journal, New York Times. Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and others. She is the author of two books: Screw-Up, and Masters of the Harmonica, a #1 best seller on Amazon. Her essays appear in Travelers Tales, The Walker Within, In Search of Adventure, National Geographic’s Spiritual Journeys, GoNomad’s London Reader and Chance Encounters.
Goldsmith has won 101 writing awards including the most coveted Lowell Thomas SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) Gold Award, Lowell Thomas Bronze Journalist of the Year Award, four Eddie and Ozzie Folio Awards (the largest awards competition in magazine publishing), multiple awards from ASJA (American Society of Journalists & Authors), NATJA (North American Travel Journalism Association Award), the Solas Award, Travel Classics Award and OWAA (Outdoor Writers Association of America) award.
Margie Goldsmith is also a singer/songwriter and recently put out her album, Margie Goldsmith & Friends, available on Spotify and Apple Music. She jams as often as possible in New York City clubs.
If she is not on the road, Goldsmith explores Central Park and practices blues harmonica. When visiting foreign countries whose language she doesn’t speak, she gives away harmonicas to school children. “Music is a universal language, an ideal way to communicate with everyone. It’s my passport to the world,” she says.
Goldsmith began her career in Paris as head of a post-production film company, and while there, wrote Screw-Up, a novel, published by Berkeley Press. She next co-wrote a French motion picture, A Tout Casser (starring Michel Serrault). Upon returning to New York, she continued to write while learning how to edit and direct films. She next launched MG Productions, a NYC award-winning film/video production company specializing in promotional videos and PSAs which she ran until she decided she’d rather pursue writing full time.
Margie Goldsmith has been a trustee of Outward Bound USA and board member of the Elisa Monte Dance Company, NYC. She is a board emeritus of Advertising Women of New York, on the board of the non-profit DEI (Diabetic Empowerment International) and a member of SATW, ASJA, NATJA and the Traveler’s Century Club.
Margie Goldsmith in Bermuda for “Elite Traveler”
