Sasha Paulsen lives in Napa Valley, California, where she has written about food, wine, art, and travel for two decades. A graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, she published her first novel, Dancing on the Spider’s Web, in 2019. Her love of travel has taken her across through Europe, across Russia, Mongolia and China, into the mountains of Tibet and Nepal, and to the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific.