Rob Verger

Rob Verger’s work focuses on travel, books, and more. His articles, essays, and photographs have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Travel Channel’s website WorldHum.com, The Faster Times, and other publications.

For The Boston Globe, he’s written travel articles featuring Micronesia, India, and Nepal; he’s interviewed Rick Moody, Malcolm Gladwell, and Buzz Aldrin; and he has reviewed books.

For World Hum, he wrote a feature story that explored the controversial phenomenon of slum tourism in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; in an essay, he mediated on the practice of dog eating in Micronesia; and he interviewed Gary Shteyngart about travel writing. He also covered air travel as a blogger for the site, and once spent 24 hours live blogging from JetBlue’s terminal at JFK.

As a photographer, he’s had slideshows published on World Hum that explore Rio de Janeiro, Kathmandu, and the vivid and colorful graffiti found in Sao Paulo, Brazil; a slideshow on Boston.com featured Bogota, Colombia.

Verger has an MFA degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, where he also taught for two years in the Undergraduate Writing Program. He graduated from Middlebury College in 2001 with a major in English and a minor in geography.

Contact:

Email: rob@robverger.com | Phone: 646-657-9291 | Twitter: @robverger

All photographs and other content on the website are © Rob Verger unless otherwise indicated.