Joanna Biggar
author : Joanna BiggarJoanna Biggar is a teacher, writer, and traveler whose special places of the heart include the California coast and the South of France. She has degrees in Chinese and French and, as a professional writer for thirty years, has written poetry, fiction, personal essays, features, news and travel articles for hundreds of publications including The Washington Post Magazine, Psychology Today, The International Herald Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal. Her book Travels and Other Poems was published in 1996, and her most recent travel essays have appeared in the Wandering series, whose anthologies include books on Costa Rica, Bali, Paris, Cornwall, Andalusia, and Cuba. That Paris Year, the first in a trilogy published by Alan Squire Publishing in 2010, and the second, Melanie’s Song, will come out in 2019. She has taught journalism, creative writing, personal essay and travel writing in many venues, and has juried the annual awards for the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She serves on the Board of Directors of Emiliano Zapata Street Academy in Oakland, California, where she makes her home and is a longtime member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Contact her through email ([email protected]), Facebook at That Paris Year, or her blog, www.joannabiggar.org.Joanna Biggar Book Series
author : Joanna BiggarJoanna Biggar is a teacher, writer, and traveler whose special places of the heart include the California coast and the South of France. She has degrees in Chinese and French and, as a professional writer for thirty years, has written poetry, fiction, personal essays, features, news and travel articles for hundreds of publications including The Washington Post Magazine, Psychology Today, The International Herald Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal. Her book Travels and Other Poems was published in 1996, and her most recent travel essays have appeared in the Wandering series, whose anthologies include books on Costa Rica, Bali, Paris, Cornwall, Andalusia, and Cuba. That Paris Year, the first in a trilogy published by Alan Squire Publishing in 2010, and the second, Melanie’s Song, will come out in 2019. She has taught journalism, creative writing, personal essay and travel writing in many venues, and has juried the annual awards for the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She serves on the Board of Directors of Emiliano Zapata Street Academy in Oakland, California, where she makes her home and is a longtime member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Contact her through email ([email protected]), Facebook at That Paris Year, or her blog, www.joannabiggar.org.