Marguerite Cleveland is a writer who specializes in travel and human interest stories.  She considers moving across the country at age 9 in a Pontiac station wagon a formative experience that developed her lifelong love of travel.  Her unique perspective on travel comes from moving to a new area and viewing it with the fresh eyes of a tourist while having the insider secrets of a local.   

     She served as an award winning Army photojournalist. Marguerite currently lives, travels and writes about the Pacific Northwest. Her articles have appeared in Northwest Travel, Washington 1889 and www.Sipnorthwest.com.  She writes a weekly travel article for www.northwestmilitary.com and its associated publications, The Ranger and The Weekly Volcano. She is a monthly contributor to the Living Local 360 magazines to include Gig Harbor Living Local, 253 Lifestyle, Sandpoint Living Local, Bonners Ferry Living Local and Coeur D Alene. Her first travel  book is 100 Things To Do In Tacoma Before You  Die, Sept. 1, 2022, Reedy Press. Marguerite is also the coauthor of “The Tsar’s Masquerade”, a novel under the penname Raphael Mercikovsky available on Amazon.