Marcia DeSanctis is a writer for many magazines and journals including Vogue, Air Mail, Town  & Country, BBC Travel, and Departures, and is a Contributing Writer for Travel + Leisure. She is the author of the 2022 essay collection, A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life and 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go (Travelers’ Tales, November 2014), a book of stories and meditations about France. It debuted as a New York Times travel bestseller and was a  Foreword Review INDIEFAB book of the year for Nonfiction/Travel. She has won five Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year, for her essays from Rwanda, France, Russia, Morocco and Haiti. She is the recipient of two Grand Prize Solas Awards including the 2021 Gold Award for Travel Story of the Year.