Since joining
Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, including deep dives into
Olympic National Park, the
Columbia River, and a
Burger King drive-thru in Canada. She edits the travel-focused blog
Tripster and contributes service, news, interview, and narrative pieces to the magazine, including long-form features about
mountain mysteries and
puppies in prison. She’s earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a City and Regional Magazine award.
Allison was raised here in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. She began her career in New York City in the newsrooms of
Metro newspaper and
Time Out New York, then hightailed it back to her native habitat so she could write
guidebooks and climb mountains.
