Dominique Browning Dominique Browning is a Rhode island-based memoirist, writer, advocate, and mother. She’s the author of three books about her personal life: “Around the House and In the Garden: a Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement,” “Paths of Desire: the Passion of a Suburban Gardener,” and “Slow Love: How I Lost my Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness." She has also written four branded House & Garden magazine books. Dominque’s latest book recounts her layoff from Condé Nast’s House & Garden, a magazine for which she was the editor-in-chief and into which she poured her soul. Her work has also appeared in publications like Esquire, Newsweek, Wired, W, Travel + Leisure, and The New York Times Magazine. Currently, Dominique is co-founder and senior director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Moms Clean Air Force, an education and advocacy organization fighting for clean air as a children’s health issue. On her blog, Slow Love Life, Dominique uses her content as a plea for people to carve out moments to reconnect with the world.• Former editor-in-chief at House & Garden• Author of three memoirs and four branded books About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process