Lavinia Spalding is the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Keeping Traveler (named one of the best travel books of 2009 by the Los Angeles Times), seven-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, (one of NPR’s best books of 2017), and two editions of the Frommer’s EasyGuide to New Orleans. Lavinia has published two Modern Love essays in The New York Times, and her writing has also appeared in Tin House, The Walrus, Longreads, River Teeth, AFAR, Post Road, Off Assignment, Yoga Journal, Sunset, Ms., The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and many other national and international publications. Her work has been widely anthologized, has won gold SATW Lowell Thomas and Solas travel writing awards, and has been noted in The Best American Travel Writing. She was also honored to write the introduction to the Restless Books’ edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue A Motor-Flight Through France. Lavinia is a co-founder of the online creative community Studio Unfurl andco-host of the storytelling podcast There She Goes. She has been teaching for more than thirty years and leads writing workshops online and around the world. She also teaches corporate storytelling classes and is available for speaking engagements. She lives with her family in New Orleans. Watch her TEDx talk here, and subscribe to her Substack newsletter for updates and essays.