Lavinia Spalding is an award-winning author and editor who has published eleven books. She’s the author of Writing Away (named one of the best travel books of 2009 by the Los Angeles Times); six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place (named one of the best books of 2017 on NPR’s “On Point”) 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, Post Road, Off Assignment, Yoga Journal, Sunset, AirBnB magazine, Ms., 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 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.