Jackie Sheckler Finch
Jackie Sheckler Finch wrote her first travel story in 1976 aboard the inaugural voyage of the Mississippi Queen. She has been writing about cruises and travel destinations ever since. Jackie also has been a newspaper reporter in Ohio, Massachusetts and Indiana since 1978 and has been writing for The Herald-Times in her Hoosier hometown of Bloomington since 1989. Sharing her love of travel, she has written about 25 travel guidebooks for Globe Pequot Press. A member of The Society of American Travel Writers and Midwest Travel Journalists Association, Jackie has been named the MTJA Mark Twain Travel Writer of the Year a record six times, most recently in 2023. One of her greatest joys is taking to the road to discover what lies around the next bend in the road or beyond the horizon.