PAULA WHYMAN
curiouswriter

In which we wonder about writing, food, music,  
& random curious events. 

Paula Whyman's first word was "book." She is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council grant in fiction, the Washington Writing Prize in short fiction, the Virgin Fiction award, and the American University’s Myra Sklarew Thesis Award. She recently completed her third residency as a Fellow of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA). Her work is included in the anthology, Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review (Spring 2008, Ivan R. Dee); the Delmarva Review; Bethesda Magazine; North Dakota Quarterly; Virgin Fiction anthology (1998, Morrow/Weisbach); and Gravity Dancers, an anthology edited by Richard Peabody (June 2009, Paycock Press).

Her commentary has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her humor essays have appeared in the Washington Post’s Style and Food sections, and the Sunday magazine.

Ms. Whyman is a visiting writer for the Pen/Faulkner Foundation's Writers in Schools program in Washington, DC. She was invited to speak at The Young Women’s Leadership School in Harlem, NY, through The Hudson Review's Writers in Schools program, and her short fiction is now part of the curriculum.

Before attending graduate school, Ms. Whyman was a book development editor with the American Psychological Association, as well as a a bar-back, a meeting planner, an editor of cheesy real estate guides, a clerk in a custom T-shirt and gag emporium, a camp counselor, and a Solid Gold dancer.