Lavinia Spalding

Lavinia Spalding is the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and the co-author of With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant and This Immeasurable Place, Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness. She is the six-time series editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing, and she wrote he introduction to the e-book edition of Edith Wharton's classic travel memoir, A Motor-Flight Through France. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Tin House, Post Road, AFAR, Yoga Journal, AirBnB Magazine, Sunset Magazine, San Francisco magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian UK, Off Assignment, Inkwell Journal, Ms., Westways, and Every Day with Rachael Ray, and her essays have been anthologized in Lonely Planet's An Innocent Abroad, Independent Bookstore's Days Like This, and two volumes of The Best Travel Writing. She has won gold Lowell Thomas and SOLAS awards. She is a member of the Writers' Grotto and Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. She lives in New Orleans and on Cape Cod, and shhe teaches writing workshops around the world, from Machu Picchu to Mexico and Morocco, Nepal to New Orleans. Watch her popular TedX talk here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CNulcWfi-0