Ben Lilly is a part-time tour guide and full-time writer. Despite having studied in Switzerland and North Carolina, volunteered in the Amazon, worked in a hospital in Colorado and acted in Mexico, he’s never found a place that beats his homeland of Northern California. But the search continues—as does the search for the perfect taco (the best one so far is at El Güero on José Moran street in Mexico City, in case you were wondering). He's represented by Inkwell Management and Kaplan-Perrone.