Los Angeles Program Faculty

Paul Mandelbaum is the author of two novels: Garrett in Wedlock published in 2004 and Adriane on the Edge in 2005, both from Berkley Books, a division of Penguin/Putnam. His fiction has appeared in many magazines including Doubletake, Glimmer Train, The Harvard Review, and The New England Review and received grants from the Ohio and California state arts councils and the James Michener/Copernicus Society of America. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Commonweal, and Baltimore Magazine, among other publications, and received recognition for investigative reporting from the National City and Regional Magazine Awards. A former managing editor of the National Magazine Award-winning quarterly Story, Paul also conceived and edited two literary anthologies: First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (Algonquin, 1993), and this year's 12 Short Stories and Their Making, which features fiction by and Paul's interviews with Sandra Cisneros, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tobias Wolff, and other luminaries. Paul teaches Topics in American Literature: LA Stories and is an Emerson LA Internship Faculty member.