C.L. Stambush — Author and Travel Memoirist.
Award-winning writer inspiring women to embrace courage through travel, storytelling, and self-discovery.
C.L. Stambush is an author and travel memoirist whose adventurous spirit and award-winning storytelling have taken her across more than 20 countries. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Far Eastern Economic Review, Travelers’ Tales, and numerous national and international newspapers.
She has received multiple honors, including awards, scholarships, and residencies from Hedgebrook Writers Colony, RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Split Rock Arts Program, and the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, where an early chapter from her travel memoir, Untethered: A Woman’s Search for Self on the Edge of India – A Travel Memoir, was judged Best Creative Nonfiction by Scott Russell Sanders.
C.L. Stambush lived abroad for six years in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—traveling by foot, train, truck, bus, boat, camel, donkey cart, and motorcycle. After returning to the United States, she became a nationally certified motorcycle safety instructor, teaching hundreds of riders—many of them women—how to ride safely.
Motorcycling became both her metaphor for life and her creative lens as a travel writer and author, inspiring stories that celebrate courage, resilience, and reinvention.
Learn more about her book, Untethered: A Woman’s Search for Self on the Edge of India – A Travel Memoir
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