Faculty 2010
John Baxter
John Baxter was born in Australia but has written and taught in London, Dublin, Los Angeles and, for the last 19 years, in Paris. He is the author of more than 40 books, including We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, A Pound of Paper; Confessions of a Book Addict, Immoveable Feast; A Paris Christmas, and biographies of, among others, Robert DeNiro, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen. Svengali: the Life and Work of Josef von Sternberg, and The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: a Pedestrian in Paris will be published in 2010.
http://sites.google.com/site/johnbaxterparis/
Sheila Kohler
Sheila Kohler is the author of seven novels, most recently: Becoming Jane Eyre, Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness, Children of Pithiviers, Crossways, and Cracks, and three collections of short stories. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous revues. Among her awards are: two O.Henry's, the Open Voice Award, the Smart Family Foundation. Sheila Kohler has taught creative writing at Bennington, City College, The Chenango Valley Conference at Colgate, Sarah Lawrence, The New School, Suny Purchase, the West side YMCA, and in Montolieu, France and Columbia university, at Brooklyn College and now teaches at Princeton.
Alice Notley
Alice Notley has published over thirty books of poetry, including (most recently) Grave of Light, New and Selected Poems 1970-2005; Alma, or The Dead Women; and In the Pines. With her sons, Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, Notley edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan. She is also the author of a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After. Notley has received many prizes and awards including the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poetry Society of AmericaÕs Shelley Award, the Griffin Prize, two NEA Grants, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Often considered an important figure in the New York School, Notley now lives and writes in Paris, France.
Mimi Schwartz
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Mimi Schwartz is the author of five books, most recently, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, a winner of the 2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Memoir and of the NHWP Outstanding Nonfiction Award. Other books are Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, a marriage memoir, and three books on writing, including Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction. Her short work has been in The Missouri Review, Fourth Genre, Jewish Week, Agni, Creative Nonfiction, and WriterÕs Chronicle, among others, and six have been Notables in Best American Essays. She is Professor Emerita in Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and gives talks and workshops nationwide and abroad.
Matt Thorne
Matt Thorne is the author of 6 novels: Tourist, Eight Minutes Idle and winner of the 2000 Encore Award; Dreaming of Strangers Pictures of You; Child Star; and Cherry. He is also a book reviewer for national newspapers, including the Independent on Sunday, and writes screenplays and radio drama. He has published a series of books for young adults (39 Castles) about a group of children in a futuristic England which resembles medieval England, the latest in the series being The White Castle. In 2000, he founded 'The New Puritans', a group who pledge to bring simplicity and relevance back to contemporary British fiction, and edited with Nicholas Blincoe an anthology of fiction entitled All Hail the New Puritans. Thorne is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University in London.
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The Paris Writers Workshop is committed to providing inspiration and high-level instruction on craft to writers of all skill levels in a supportive environment. The PWW celebrates the diversity of voices within its community of writers.
The Paris Writers' Workshop is organized by WICE, a non-profit, organization founded in 1978 that offers innovative, educational courses and programs for the Anglophone community in Paris.
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