Lavinia Spalding

Lavinia Spalding is an award-winning author and editor who has published eleven books. She’s 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), 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. She has also contributed to such publications as the NYT, AFAR, Tin House, Longreads and the Guardian.