La Carmina is an award-winning alternative culture journalist and TV host. She runs the leading blog about Goth travel, fashion and Satanism (LaCarmina.com/blog), which was featured in
The New York Times and
Washington Post. La Carmina is the author of four books including
Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo and
Cute Yummy Time, published by Penguin Random House. She received a journalism prize from the Society of American Travel Writers, and her writing has appeared in
Time Magazine, CNN, Business Insider and
Architectural Digest. As a TV personality, La Carmina has danced with William Shatner and Henry Winkler on NBC’s
Better Late Than Never, dined with Japanese monsters on
Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods, negotiated a $666 taxidermy head on Discovery Channel’s
Oddities, cooked cute food on
The Today Show, and debated “bagelhead” body modifications on
The Doctors. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School. Follow La Carmina’s Gothic adventures in over 70 countries on
LaCarmina.com and social media @LaCarmina.