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Lavinia Spalding

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born

March 17, 1970 in The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.laviniaspalding.com

twitter username

writing_away

genre

Travel, Cooking, Food & Wine, Women & Gender Studies

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July 2007

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Lavinia Spalding is author of two books: Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (chosen one of the best travel books of 2009 by the L.A. Times) and With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant (now in its fourth printing). She is also the editor of Travelers' Tales' The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 (a Book of the Year finalist) and The Best Women's Travel Writing Volume 8 (May 2012).

A regular contributor to Yoga Journal, her articles, essays, fiction, poetry, and opinions have also appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Sunset Magazine, Post Road, World Hum, Gadling, and Inkwell. She lives in San Francisco.

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For those of you who live in the Bay Area, I'll be doing a reading/signing at the Green Arcade, one of my favorite San Francisco indie bookshops, on October 12th, at 7 pm. The Green Arcade is at Market and Gough. http://www.the greenarcade.com read more »

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Books by Lavinia Spalding

Average rating: 4.24 · 128 ratings · 45 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler 4.27 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011: True Stories from Around the World 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	With a Measure of Grace, The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant by Blake Spalding, Lavinia Spalding (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Castle 4.50 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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Cutting for Stone

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Lights, Camera... Travel!: On-The-Road Tales from Screen Storytellers

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What Am I Doing Here?

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Lavinia liked Gary Buslik's review of The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011: " I usually don't read women's travel writing for the same reason I don't read the Williams-Sonoma catalog. I'm just not interested in six pages on the texture of Venetian salami, the aroma of Bavarian salted caramel truffle tart, or the orgasm-indu... " Read more of this review »
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