Tim Richards is an award-winning travel writer, specializing in rail travel, who will hop aboard any train at a moment's notice. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and websites around the world, and in Lonely Planet's guidebooks. He's the author of Heading South (2021, Fremantle Press), an Australian rail-travel narrative; self-published travel memoir The Kick of Stalin's Cow (2016), about post-communist Poland; and fantasy novel Mind the Gap (2014, HarperCollins). He's a regular contributor to the Traveller lift-out of Australian national newspapers, and of travel articles for Lonely Planet's website. You can see his published work at iwriter.com.au, and he writes regularly about travel at patreon.com/timrichards.