Rosalind Cummings-Yeates is an award-winning journalist and author specializing in travel and lifestyle topics that intersect with culture and history. She’s the author of Exploring Chicago Blues: Inside The Scene, Past and Present (History Press), a guidebook to Chicago blues history and landmarks. Her other credits include the London Telegraph, Smithsonian Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC, Lonely Planet, British Airways High Life, Afar, Thrillist, Woman’s Day, American Express Business Trends and Insights, Mind Body Green,  Hemispheres, MSN,  USA Today, AAA Magazine, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Miami Herald, Midwest Living, Orbitz, Mind Body Green, Rough Guide to Women Travel and the Chicago Sun-Times, among other publications. She writes a monthly travel and food column for The Takeout and teaches journalism at Columbia College Chicago. Her recent book, Moon 52 Things to Do in Chicago, was published in 2022. She’s based in Chicago, from which she manages to escape during the Windy City’s six official winter months.  Her professional memberships include the Society of American Travel Writers and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She is a 2021 Eugene O’Neill fellow.