Instructors
John Biguenet
With comparisons to Flaubert, Chekhov, and Faulkner, O. Henry Award-winner John Biguenet earned wide acclaim for his short story collection, The Torturer's Apprentice (HarperCollins, 2001), as well as his debut novel, Oyster (HarperCollins, 2002). His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Esquire, Granta, Story, The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Zoetrope: All-Story, DoubleTake, and Ploughshares as well as in various anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2002. His stage play about Hurricane Katrina, Rising Water, was selected for the National Showcase of New American Plays in New York, and premiered in 2007 at the Southern Rep Theatre. He is the Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.
Rolf Potts
Dubbed "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age" by USA Today, Potts' essays have appeared in such venues as Salon.com, Slate.com, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, and National Public Radio, as well as over a dozen nonfiction anthologies, including the Best American Travel Writing series. He has won four Lowell Thomas Awards for his travel writing, and his first book, Vagabonding (Random House, 2003), has been translated into four languages. This will be his sixth summer of teaching at the Paris American Academy.
Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn's first novel What Happened to Anna K. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2008) will be published in August. She is also the editor of Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State (Touchstone, 2007). Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Town & Country Travel, One Story, Post Road, Nextbook, and various anthologies. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Guest Lecturers
Because Paris attracts (and is home to) writers and artists from all over the world, each summer's writing workshop features an eclectic slate of guest lecturers -- including poets, journalists, screenwriters, travel writers, editors, publishers, literary agents, photographers, filmmakers, performers, and historians. Guests in recent years have included poet Marvin Bell, essayist Philip Lopate, journalists Jeffrey Tayler and Elisabeth Eaves, travel writers Elliott Hester and Rory MacLean, novelists Thomas Fox Averill and Binnie Kirschenbaum, and literary agents Julie Barer and Sarah Jane Freymann.
To start the application process, send an email to: info@pariswritingworkshop.com