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Rachel Weisz is the Shopping and Travel Writer at Gourmet Traveller, with over half a decade of experience covering everything from fashion and culture to travel. With bylines in Vogue, Vogue Living, InStyle Australia, Fashion Journal, Australian House & Garden, Belle and more, she now draws on her multidisciplinary background to shape her travel coverage. Rachel has an acute eye for trends that define the cultural zeitgeist, drawing on her expertise in editorial, e-commerce and social media to approach her work with a holistic perspective. When she’s not writing (a rare sight), she’s wandering through galleries, hunting down fashion archives or travelling to unique destinations she'll inevitably end up covering somewhere.

Journalist and sometimes screenwriter Jess G. Lynch is a former Shopping Editor at Are Media who worked across some of Australia’s leading titles such as Gourmet Traveller, Home Beautiful, Better Homes & Gardens and Australian Women’s Weekly. With a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from UTS, and a Bachelor of Media from Macquarie University and the University of Bologna, Jess brings a rich blend of expertise to her work. Formerly, the vertical lead for travel, homes and lifestyle affiliate content across the publisher’s digital titles, she knows a thing or two about cultivating rich experiences both near and far from home. Based on Gadigal land, Jess is a regular at off-the-beaten track swim spots and inner west coffee haunts – often deep within a research spiral of destinations here and abroad. Her work has also appeared on titles such as marie claire, ELLE, news.com.au, Homes To Love, Who, body+soul, Kidspot, FBi Radio and in The Australian.