Brook Wilkinson has worked on staff at Conde Nast Traveler for 5 years and is currently their consumer news correspondent. She has also written for Sherman's Travel, Wired, Fitness, SilverKris (the in-flight magazine for Singapore Airlines), and the Audi magazine. Wilkinson is also the author of the travel chapter in The Whole Green Catalog, a guide to sustainable living published by Rodale. She is based in San Francisco.