The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011

(Solas Press/Travelers’ Tales) Included in this anthology of travel tales is “Masha,” an essay about DeSanctis’ experience as a tour guide in cold war Moscow after college and her brief friendship with Masha, a woman who worked in the hotel where she stayed. DeSanctis traveled the world as a network news producer and is now writing a memoir. Her work has been in Vogue, Departures, The New York Times Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and More.