About Paris Update

Editor: Heidi Ellison

Contributors:

Jeanne Bernard, a native of Louisiana, is a writer and translator who has lived in Paris for 21 years.

Karen Burshtein, a former Paris resident now based in Canada, is the fashion reporter for the National Post. She also travels the world reporting on architecture, design and culture for Gourmet, Condé Nast Traveller, Azure and other publications.

Carol Caruso, a citizen of the United States and Italy who has lived in Paris for eight years, follows her passion for photography by attending exhibitions and showing her own work on www.carolcaruso.com.

Paris-based Sion Dayson’s essays and reviews have appeared in various publications, including
the Village Voice and Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia. In 2007, she received a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for her fiction. She will soon be joining the editorial team of Upstairs at Duroc, a Paris-based literary journal.

Russell Dionne is a photographer, international project management consultant, historian of science and art collector. He frequently stays in Paris between global assignments. Visit his Web site at www.rjdionne.com.

Heidi Ellison, a long-time Paris resident, is a freelance journalist specializing in art, travel and literature. Her articles have been published in dozens of international publications, and she has contributed to a number of guidebooks on Paris and France.

James Gascoigne is a freelance writer based in Paris.

Linda Healey is a Paris-based poet, writer and teacher of creativity and creative writing.

Richard Hesse, another long-time Paris resident, is a translator by day and a serial diner by evening. He also likes to lunch. He is joined in these activities by his Scottish terrier, Bertie the gastro-hound, and his girlfriend, Doctor Madame, a London-based freelance historian.

Joshua Jampol, a former radio correspondent for National Public Radio, has lived in Paris since 1971. A contributor to The Times (London), The Guardian, Time magazine, and The International Herald Tribune, he is currently writing a book on opera.

Perry Leopard is a writer, editor, musician and wannabe theater impresario. He performs regularly in Paris with his band, Los Caballeros Simpáticos.

Graham McKerrow, a journalist and sculptor, has lived and worked in London and Paris, editing magazines and newspapers. He now works as a sub-editor at the Guardian and Observer in London for three days a week and sculpts or draws for another three days.

Stéphane Piatzszek, based in Paris, has written about film for a number of publications, including the French daily Libération.

Paris-based Tom Ridgway is Associate Features Editor and film critic for Tank magazine in London.


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