Susan McKee is an independent scholar and freelance journalist specializing in history, culture and travel.

She writes for a wide variety of publications, both print and online. Recent bylines have appeared in JaxFax, Global Traveler USA, HGTV's Front Door, Global Foodie and two new websites: Road Trips for Foodies and Road Trips for Gardeners.

She has been Editor-At-Large for the U.S. edition of Business Traveler, ghostwrote more than a year's worth of consumer newsletters at Kayak.com, and is a regular columnist for Luxury Web. Her writings also have appeared in Wine Enthusiast, Venice Gondolier-Sun, Chicago SunTimes, German Life, Golf Connoisseur, Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, Cincinnati Enquirer, a half-dozen daily and weekly publications of 21st Century Newspapers (Michigan), AAA Living, Travel Savvy, Kentucky Monthly, Journey and many more newspapers, magazines and ezines, including Road and Travel and Bonjour Paris.

Susan honed her craft as a general assignment reporter for more than a decade at a major metropolitan daily newspaper before fleeing corporate journalism for the peripatetic life of a freelancer. Although a third-generation Chicagoan (where she attended both Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago), she graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles, snagged one master's degree at Indiana University and another at Purdue University. She makes Indianapolis her home base.

Book projects have included some scholarly works as well as contributions to a National Geographic book on Sacred Spaces, a AAA guide to Chicago, a Scripps Interactive guide to Indianapolis, and NorthStar Intelliguides for both Indianapolis and Indiana.

Contact Susan McKee by email: Susan@SusanMcKee.com.