Paula McLain

Paula McLain, author of the higly acclaimed new novel, The Paris Wife, has published two collections of poetry, Less of Her and Stumble, Gorgeous, both from New Issues Poetry Press, and a memoir entitled Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses (Little, Brown, 2003). A Ticket to Ride was her debut novel from Ecco/HarperCollins. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996 and has since been a writer-in-residence at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Ucross Foundation, and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as the Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. In addition to teaching at John Carroll University, she is also a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA Program in Poetry at New England College. For more on Ms. McLain and her new novel, Click Here! Photo by: Stephen Cutter.