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Editor: Heidi Ellison

Contributors:

Margo Berdeshevsky is a Paris-based writer and photographer. Her new book, Beautiful Soon Enough, short-short stories illustrated with photographs by the author (Fiction Collective Two, University of Alabama Press, 2009), has just been released. Her latest reading from the book was held at Shakespeare & Company in Paris. Click here to find out more.

Jeanne Bernard, a native of Louisiana, is a writer and translator who has lived in Paris since 1985.

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.

Madeleine Czigler, a journalist and TV producer specializing in culture and fashion, has lived in Paris for two decades and contributes to the Canadian Broadcasting Co., Oprah, FQ and a number of fashion magazines.

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.

Colin Eaton is a Dublin-based architect who specializes in the general. “To design is to design at any scale and appreciate form and function, not typology,” he says. Colin’s extensive and varied travels inform his own architecture and life. He frequently stays in Paris between projects to enjoy the architecture, food and wine.

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.

A writer of essayistic narrative nonfiction, Chris Haight visited Paris once for a week and loved it. Though his heart is in Paris, he lives in the East Bay across from San Francisco and consoles himself by rereading Proust and poring over Eugène Atget’s four volumes of photos.

Nick Hammond, reader in French at Cambridge University, regularly writes reviews for The Times Literary Supplement and is a former member of the Birmingham Symphony Chorus under the baton of Simon Rattle.

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 Gastrohound, and his girlfriend, Doctor Madame, a London-based freelance historian.

A Paris resident since the early 1980s, David Jaggard is a journalist, translator, composer, humorist and food fiend. Unfortunately, only two of those activities pay the bills. His satires have appeared on the McSweeneys Web site and his own blog, Quorum of One.

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.

After four years in Cambridge [Massachusetts], where he read Procrastination, Owen McGowan went west and is currently a pear farmer in California's Sacramento Delta when he is not listening to Wagner or estivating in Southeast Asia.

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. He is the author of two bandes dessinées: Neverland and Cavales, both published by Quadrants.

David Platzer, a writer, journalist and singer-songwriter living in Vincennes, is a regular contributor on a wide range of subjects to Apollo magazine and other publications.

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

Gerald Shuttlesworth, a photographer and painter, divides his time between Hopwood, Pennsylvania, and Paris, France, where he and his wife have an apartment, and where he loves to spend his time as a flâneur, capturing street scenes on film and canvas.

Former Paris resident Michael Sommers began his writing career in the City of Light. He subsequently moved to Brazil, where he works as a freelance writer, recently publishing two guide books, Moon Brazil and the upcoming Moon Rio for Avalon Travel. Although caipirinhas are swell, he still succumbs to cravings for vin rouge and croissants au beurre.

Landscape architect Helen Stokes works for Agence Ter in Paris.

Marie Tatin is a Parisian food enthusiast, cookbook writer and translator. Wining and dining out is her favorite hobby. Armed with a pen, a knife and a fork, she scouts everything from local bistros to three-star restaurants.

Al Teich has been taking pictures since he won a camera in a contest at the age of 10. A serious amateur photographer, he finds Paris an especially appealing venue for photography. The director of science policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter and a six-year old Goldendoodle.

Pierre Tran, a journalist and committed dilettante, lives in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, but not the upmarket side, the Bobo part or Les Epinettes.

Nick Woods is a freelance journalist, translator and interpreter. A former prize-winning political correspondent from the UK, he spent four years developing his freelance career in Berlin, Germany, before moving to Paris in September 2008. He now focuses on creative writing rather than daily news, contributing to city guides and travel magazines and writing theater and dance reviews. He speaks French, German and Spanish and in his spare time practices ashtanga yoga and oriental dance.

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