Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, winner of the 2020 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, finalist for the 2021 Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices, the 2019 Kirkus Prize, The Los Angeles Times Book ... [Read More]
Mark Braude
Mark Braude has written for The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail and other publications, and has spoken at venues including the US Department of State, the Volkswagen Automotive ... [Read More]
Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is an award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and Colorado ... [Read More]
Molly Antopol
Molly Antopol's debut story collection, The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton), won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, the French-American ... [Read More]
Rhae Lynn Barnes
Rhae Lynn Barnes (July 2019) is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University specializing in the globalization of American popular culture and racism. While at the American ... [Read More]
Ian Leslie
Ian Leslie (Spring 2019) is a journalist writing about the science of human behaviour, drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise. He is the author of Born Liars: Why We Can’t Live Without ... [Read More]
James Verini
Fall, 2017 American Library in Paris Fellow - James Verini is a magazine journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. His reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq ... [Read More]
Vanessa Manko
Fall, 2017 American Library in Paris Fellow - Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile. She earned her MFA from Hunter College where she was the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship. Her work ... [Read More]
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning ... [Read More]
Anna Leahy
Fall, 2016 American Library in Paris Fellow - "As a poet, I'm particularly interested in the ways that form and structure shape content and in the ways that subject matter may lead to particular ... [Read More]
Doug Dechow
Fall, 2016 American Library in Paris Fellow - "I’m a digital humanist who works, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the Center for American War Letters (CAWL) at ... [Read More]
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Spring, 2016 American Library in Paris Fellow - Megan Mayhew Bergman was raised in North Carolina and now lives on a small farm in Vermont. She is the Associate Director of Bennington College's MFA ... [Read More]
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang is a poet and author of Hunger, a collection of short fiction, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her latest novel, The Family Chao, was published by ... [Read More]
Susan Hiner
Susan Hiner, of Vassar College, worked on her upcoming book: Behind the Seams: Women, Work and Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France while a Visiting Fellow. Professor Hiner's research and teaching ... [Read More]
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the best selling book, Between the World and Me and the ... [Read More]
Alex Danchev
Alex Danchev was an unorthodox Professor of International Relations at The University of St Andrews. He wrote extensively on art and political violence in the modern period. Some of this work is ... [Read More]
Anthony Flint
Anthony Flint is the Director of Public Policy at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He completed work on his book: Modern Man: The Life of Corbusier while a fellow at the American ... [Read More]