Lavinia Spalding

Lavinia Spalding is series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, and 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. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Tin House, Post Road, Longreads, AFAR, Inkwell Journal, Off Assignment, The Bold Italic, World Hum, Yoga Journal, Sunset magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Ms., The Guardian UK, Every Day with Rachael Ray, The Best Travel Writing, and Lonely Planet's An Innocent Abroad. She also introduced the recently reissued e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France. She currently lives in New Orleans, and she is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.