Edie Jarolim was a travel guidebook editor at Fodor’s (Random House) and Frommer’s (Simon & Schuster) in New York and Rough Guides in London before moving to Tucson and becoming a freelance writer and editor.

She is the author of four travel guides, including Arizona for Dummies and Frommer’s San Antonio & Austin; one dog guide, Am I Boring My Dog: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew; and a memoir, Getting Naked for Money: An Accidental Travel Writer Tells All. Her articles about food and travel have appeared in Imbibe, National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, and USA Today, among other national outlets.