Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, Vagabonding(Random House, 2003) and Marco Polo Didn't Go There (Travelers Tales, 2008), and his travel writing has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Salon.com, Slate.com, The Guardian, and World Hum. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, the New York Times Magazine, and the digital versions of The Nation and The Atlantic.^[1]

Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy,^[2] and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.^[3] He currently teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.