Bio

Lifestyle and travel writer Shivani Vora considers herself lucky to live in her favorite place in the world: New York City. While Manhattan’s Upper East Side is home, she’s constantly venturing off to a new part of the world. Her recent exploits include a food and wine walking journey through Piedmont, hiking the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, taking a cooking class in Marrakesh, running the seawall at Stanley Park in Vancouver, chocolate tasting in Modica, Sicily and getting a four-handed massage while overlooking the Nile River in Cairo. Then, there are her yearly trips to her birthplace of India where the adventures are too innumerable to mention.

She always had the instinct for exploration, but her passion for scoping out new destinations and rediscovering old ones was fueled while she was the travel writer at Forbes.com.

She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and has written on trends, travel, lifestyle, beauty, food and business for dozens of publications including the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, T Magazine, Departures.com, Time, Fortune, Four Seasons Magazine, Real Simple, Fodors.com, Inc., Parents, Saveur,  Travel and Leisure.

Shivani is most excited about her newest venture: the New York Times recently launched India Ink, a section devoted to the Indian diaspora around the world. Shivani will be covering the Indian scene including fashion, food and entertainment from New York. Read India Ink here: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/

When she’s not in front of her computer or planning her next trip, she’s likely experimenting with a new recipe in the kitchen, absorbed in a good book, working out and either feeling guilty about not taking her 3 year old daughter to one of her many classes like Spanish,gym, music and art or feeling like a great mother for making every one that week.