The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 - About the Author

Lavinia Spalding is author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, chosen one of the best travel books of 2009 by The Los Angeles Times, and coauthor of With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. A regular contributor to Yoga Journal, her work has also appeared in a wide variety of literary and travel publications, including Sunset Magazine, World Hum, Post Road, and Inkwell.

She spent her bohemian childhood in Kensington, New Hampshire and Flagstaff, Arizona, climbing trees, writing poetry, and playing the classical guitar. Upon graduating from the University of Arizona’s creative writing program, she took a one-year position teaching ESL in Busan, South Korea, and stayed for six years. An incorrigible nomad, she has traipsed through more than thirty countries on five continents, a blank notebook and a clutch of pens her constant companions. She is a practicing Buddhist, a Scrabble junkie, an avid kimchi maker, and an amateur knife thrower, but her greatest sense of accomplishment comes from her ability to say, “I love you” in twenty-five languages.

She currently lives in San Francisco and can always be found at laviniaspalding.com. Visit her there to see more of her work, including interviews with the contributors of this book.

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