Lavinia Spalding is author of two books: Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal, and her articles, essays, fiction, poetry, and opinions have appeared in such publications as Sunset Magazine, Post Road, The Ritz-Carlton Magazine, Transitions Abroad, CitySmart, Whole Life Times, and Inkwell.


Lavinia grew up in the small towns of Kensington, New Hampshire and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she spent her bohemian childhood climbing trees, writing poetry, and playing the classical guitar. She attended the University of Arizona Creative Writing program and upon graduating, immediately took a job teaching English in Busan, South Korea. It was an impulsive decision that changed the course of her life, turning it irreversibly nomadic. She lived in Korea for six years, and has traipsed through some thirty countries on five continents, a blank notebook and a clutch of pens her constant companions.


Although her inextinguishable wanderlust prevents her from ever really staying put, she currently lives in San Francisco.

30 June 2009

Writing Away Interview on Utah Public Radio

On June 10th, I was interviewed on Utah Public Radio by Lee Austin for the program, Access Utah about my new book, Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler. Here's the link to listen to the program. I'm on the second half hour of the show.

http://www.upr.org/access.html
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26 June 2009

Keeping a Travel Journal

Lots of news, and I will soon post some photos from my book tour--which was amazing, to say the least--but first, the link to a new Rolf Potts column on World Hum in which he shares some of my thoughts on keeping a travel journal.

Enjoy!
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13 May 2009

My Book Tour

Please come and see me at one of the following locations during the month of June, 2009!

I’m available to visit your school or bookshop to speak about the relevance of keeping a handwritten travel journal in the digital age, and to sign copies of my book, Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler.

Stay tuned for updated info...

TOUR DATES

June 7 - July 13

June 7, Boulder, Utah
7 p.m. Hell's Backbone Grill
Author Reception & Signing
Tel: 435-335-7464

June 8 Springdale, Utah
Sundancer Books
Tel: 435-772-3400‎
7-9 p.m.

June 9, Page, Arizona
7:00 pm (doors open by 6:45 pm)
Glen Canyon Lecture Series
Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89

June 11, Flagstaff, Arizona
Author Reception, Reading, and Signing
6:00 The Wine Loft
17 N San Francisco St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Tel: 928-773-9463

June 12, Flagstaff, Arizona
3-5 p.m. Starrlight Books
15 N. Leroux St.
Tel: 928-774-6813

June 13, Scottsdale, Arizona
Author Reception and Signing
7:00 p.m. Terroir Wine Pub
7001 North Scottsdale Road, #157
Tel: 480-922-3470

June 14, Tempe, Arizona
2:00 p.m. Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Dr. (McClintock at Guadalupe)
Tempe, AZ 85283
Tel: 480-730-0205

June 15, Goodyear, Arizona
6:30-8 p.m. Lavendar Moon Store
14130 W. McDowell Rd. Suite A104
Goodyear, AZ
623-935-0501

June 19, Tucson, Arizona
-7:30 p.m. Antigone Books
411 North 4th Avenue
Tel: 520-792-3715

June 22, Boulder, Utah
7:00 p.m. The Anasazi State Park Museum
HIghway 12
435-335-7308

June 23, Salt Lake City, Utah
- 7:00 p.m. King’s English Bookstore
1511 S 1500 E.
Tel: 801.484.9100

June 29, San Francisco, CA
BOOK LAUNCH PARTY!
7 p.m. The Orbit Room
1900 Market St.
Tel: 415-252-9525


July 13, San Francisco, CA
- 7:30 p.m.
Books Inc., Marina
San Francisco Travel Book Club and Lecture Series
2251 Chestnut St .
Tel: 415-931-3633
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