Michael Alpiner wrote for Forbes.com from November 2018 to November 2021. He has served as Associate Publisher and contributing editor with Business Traveler Magazine. He has written for New York Lifestyles Magazine, and is a published poet, fiction writer, and a professor of writing. He earned a BA in English, an MA in Education, and an MFA in Creative Writing. He has reported on Irish cuisine and culture for The New York Post (with Gretchen Kelly) for the St. Patrick's Day feature. Michael ran poetry events at Barnes and Noble, served as Writer-in-Residence at The Louis Armstrong Museum, and was a manuscript judge for Alice James Books. His work appears in print and online journals, as well as in anthologies such as Blood to Remember: American Poets After the Holocaust (2007).
Gretchen Kelly, was a contributing writer for Forbes.com and is currently Editor-at-Large with Business Traveler Magazine. She has traveled to over 80 countries, both as a freelance writer and as US News Editor for Business Traveler magazine. She has worked for the New York Post, Executive Travel, Women’s Health, The Toronto Star, Luxury Travel Adviser, Pursuitist, AAA Car and Travel, the New York Daily News, Afar Media, Travel Mole, Travel Pulse and the Travel Channel, among others. Gretchen has written about global leisure travel trends and destinations from locales as far flung as Armenia, the Transylvanian mountains of Romania and the North Pole. She has also been the blogger-in-residence for the countries of Belgium (Flanders) and Wales and has appeared as a travel expert on Good Day New York, Bloomberg Radio and BBC Worldwide News. She has also written monthly features on hotels and destinations for New York Lifestyles Magazine.