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 2008 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 (Spring 2008); Bethesda Magazine (March/​April 2009); North Dakota Quarterly; and the anthology Gravity Dancers, edited by Richard Peabody (Paycock Press, June 2009).

Her commentary has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

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 has been added to the curriculum there.

Her humor, book reviews, and travel/​nature writing have been published in Worldview magazine, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.

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 emporium, a camp counselor, and a Solid Gold dancer.