Lavinia Spalding is an award-winning author and editor who has published eleven books. She’s the author of Writing Away, six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, and the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Frommer’s EasyGuide to New Orleans. Lavinia has published two Modern Love essays in the New York Times. Her writing has also appeared in AFAR, Tin House, Longreads, River Teeth, Yoga Journal, Post Road, Sunset, AirBnB magazine, Ms., Off Assignment, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and many more national and international publications. Her work has been widely anthologized, has won gold SATW Lowell Thomas and gold SOLAS travel writing awards, and has been noted in The Best American Travel Writing. She’s also the proud co-host and co-creator of the storytelling podcast There She Goes. Lavinia wrote the introduction to the Restless Books’ e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue A Motor-Flight Through France. She leads writing workshops around the world (and online) and teaches storytelling classes to corporations, and she is available for speaking engagements. She lives with her family in New Orleans and on Cape Cod. Watch her TEDx talk here, and sign up to receive occasional updates HERE.