Rosita Boland is Senior Features Writer at the Irish Times, specialising in human interest stories. She was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She won Journalist of the Year at the 2018 Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards. Her travel memoir Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel is published by Doubleday / Penguin Random House Ireland in May 2019