Brenda Lee Sieglitz is an award-winning author and educator whose expertise is in travel, grief, and nature. Widowed in 2008 at 24 years of age, Brenda became an advocate for sarcoma cancer, the grief community, and conservation through her volunteerism with the National Park Service, Lancaster County Conservancy, Pennsylvania Master Naturalist, Lancaster Against Pipelines, Hospice & Community Care, Soaring Spirits International, Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative, and Angiosarcoma Awareness.
Brenda won the 2009 (former) Associated Content “Content of the Year” award for her editorial titled ‘A Widow’s View on the U.S. Healthcare Debate’ , and in 2011 was named one of Wyndham (Hotel) Worldwide’s “Women on their Way” Local Nation travel writers . Her love and loss memoir, Ebb from the Shoreline, won 1 st Place Editor’s Choice in Nonfiction at the 2014 North American Book Awards.
Sieglitz launched a public speaking tour after her book was published and speaks to groups about her experiences as a young widow traveling on her own, rediscovering her love of nature, and how these things helped her through her grief journey. She is a subject matter expert on solo travel, and nature and travel, having taught at Camp Widow , Pennsylvania Therapeutic Recreation Institute , the NJ Tourism Industry Association , Millersville University Institute of Lifelong Learning , Hospice & Community Care