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 and This Immeasurable Place. She introduced the e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France, and her work appears in such publications as Tin House, Post Road, Inkwell Journal, AFAR, Yoga Journal, Sunset, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, The Guardian UK, Airbnb magazine, Ms., The Bold Italic, and a number of anthologies, including two volumes of The Best Travel Writing. Visit her at www.laviniaspalding.com and watch her TEDx talk here: