Our writers
Who writes this
Everything published about Hilton Head Island on this site carries a name. Here is who those names belong to, what each of them covers, and how to read everything they have written.
Marisa Delgado
Senior Editor
Beat: Beaches, Things to Do, Best Time to Visit
Marisa has edited Lowcountry travel coverage for a decade and spends part of every summer in a rental off Folly Field Road. She writes the practical pages on this site: parking, passes, bridges and what things cost. She checks the town's ordinances before she checks anyone's marketing.
5 guides · 3 news posts
Tom Brantley
Outdoors & Water Editor
Beat: Beaches, With Kids, Free Things to Do
Tom guided kayak and fishing trips out of Broad Creek before he wrote about them, and still keeps a tide chart in his head rather than his phone. He covers paddling, boats, beaches and wildlife for us, and he will tell you when the conditions are wrong for the trip you had in mind.
4 guides · 4 news posts
Renée Osei
Culture & History Editor
Beat: Day Trips, Free Things to Do, History & Culture
Renée writes about Lowcountry history from archives and from the people who lived it, covering Mitchelville, the island's Gullah Geechee community, the tabby ruins and the shell rings that predate all of them. She checks names and organisations before she prints them, and she points readers to Gullah-owned businesses wherever there is one to point to.
2 guides · 3 news posts
These are our own staff bylines. We do not publish guest posts, we do not accept sponsored articles under a staff name, and no page here is signed by someone who did not write it. Portraits are deliberately absent: attaching a stock photograph of a real person to an editorial byline would misrepresent them, so you get initials instead.
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