Michelle Starin

Michelle Starin is a writer and longtime Only In Your State contributor — with her since 2016 — who has lived across the U.S. and traveled the world, from a motorcycle journey through India to teaching English in Hanoi. A communications graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School, Michelle brings professional media experience and rare firsthand travel depth to her work. She covers destinations with the eye of someone who has genuinely explored them herself, not just researched them.