Faith Adiele, Marta Hanson, & Paulette Perhach
About this Event
Join contributing writers of the 13th volume of The Best Women's Travel Writing Anthology, Faith Adiele, Marta Hanson, and Paulette Perhach, for a reading and conversation of their work and the award-winning series from Travelers' Tales that invites you to join inspiring writers as they traverse the planet, crisscrossing all seven continents and exploring the ways travel can illuminate, heal, inform, and transform a life.
The essays probe themes as diverse as the locations, immersing us in experiences of kindness, adventure, nature, friendship, strength, marriage, motherhood, spirituality, the environment, belonging, healing, history, identity, romance, and resilience.
This beautiful and far-ranging collection helps us celebrate an appreciation for other cultures while proving that travel can be a profound gateway to connection, self-awareness, and an expanded worldview.
As Lavinia Spalding writes in her introduction, “In times of turmoil and despair, it becomes more vital to pay attention to how much there is live for, and travel for, and stand up for, and the stories in this volume shine light on this.”
In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 13, you will:
- Embrace contradictions on the late-night tango floors of Argentina
- Splash toward a sexual awakening in the depths of a French swimming pool
- Hike the ups and downs of an active volcano and a marriage in Sicily
- Learn to surf and face cultural stereotypes in Hawaii
- Experience a different relationship with grief during Day of the Dead in Mexico
- Uncover the nuances of hair braiding in Nigeria and Morocco
- Explore the joys and challenges of motherhood in Qatar’s singing sand dunes
- ...and much more.
Faith Adiele is author of Meeting Faith, a PEN-award-winning memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, a PBS documentary about finding her family in Nigeria, and four chapbooks about her Nigerian-Nordic-American heritage. Raised in the Yakima Valley, Faith founded the USA’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. She edits the Decolonising Travel section of Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place & Nature and is completing a craft book decolonizing travel writing.
To celebrate her 30th birthday, Marta Hanson quit her job, packed up her apartment, and bought a one-way plane ticket to Argentina to study tango. When she’s not traveling or dancing, Marta leads programs and partnerships to promote civic engagement for healthy communities and a strong democracy. She co-led Create+Engage, a community series fusing art & activism with the Creative Fuel Collective, and her essays and op-eds have appeared in WBUR’s Cognoscenti and The Oregonian/OregonLive, among others. Marta holds a BA from Stanford and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and their orange cat.
Paulette Perhach is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her work has previously appeared in Vox, Elle, The Washington Post, Slate, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, Yoga Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart, and Vice. She’s the author of two multi-million-reader viral essays. Her book, Welcome to the Writer’s Life, was published in 2018 by Sasquatch Books, part of the Penguin Random House publishing family, and was selected as one of Poets & Writers’ Best Books for Writers. She resided in Seattle from 2011-2021, where she won fellowships with Jack Straw and Hugo House. She serves writers as a coach through Powerhouse Writers, helping them figure out how to make a life and career out of being a writer.
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