Paula Whyman

Paula Whyman is the author of YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER, a linked story collection that won praise from The New Yorker and a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Paula has been awarded the 2017 Towson Prize for Literature. She was selected for “Best of 2016” lists including Chicago Review of Books and the first-ever Poets & Writers Magazine “5 Over 50” list. Paula’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Ploughshares, VQR, The Washington Post, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. A music theater piece based on a story from her book is in development with composer Scott Wheeler. Paula has taught in writers-in-schools programs through the Pen/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, DC, and The Hudson Review in Harlem and the Bronx, New York. She is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and vice president of the MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee. Paula is founding editor of Scoundrel Time, the online journal where artists and writers resist threats to freedom through creative works. She lives in a suburb of Washington, DC, where she is working on a novel.