Romance of Elsewhere

>She has received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award by the American Academy of Arts & Letters, two PEN/O. Henry awards, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant> Freed’s short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Santa Monica Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Elle, Vogue, among others. She has had stories appear in both the Best American Short Stories and the Pen/O. Henry Short Story collection.> She has written a number of travel articles and essays for The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Travel & Leisure, House Beautiful, and a number of others.