Homeless Writer With Credit Card

In January of 2017, I packed up my laptop, camping equipment, some books, and a suitcase of clothes. “The great home of the soul is the open road,” said D.H. Lawrence. I would take to that road, briefly the air, for the next nine months, a homeless writer with a credit card.

Camille Cusumano
Nov 1 · 17 min read
1927 Precursor of VIA, the magazine I wrote for, 1987–2007. All photos Library Camille Cusumano

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Camille Cusumano

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Writes, dances in San Francisco. Novel, essay, memoir author. Teaches tango. Writes on writing, travel, outdoors, culture, tango. Former editor at VIA Mag.

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Publishes shapely prose, creative nonfiction (travel and memoir) and fiction (short), that is deeply contemplative, imaginative, literary with an irresistible narrative drive.

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