Paula Friedman's honors include Pushcart Prize nominations and OSPA, New Millennium Writings, and other awards and honors, as well as Centrum and Soapstone residencies and fellowships. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online literary magazines and anthologies. Her books include the novel The Rescuer's Path (Plain View Press, 2012, 2018), her novel The Change Chronicles (Lillicat Publishers, 2018) and a poetry chapbook, Time and Other Details (Highlights Press, 2006). Ms. Friedman is an author and freelance book editor residing near Portland, Oregon. She has previously taught writing workshops in Hood River, Oregon, directed public relations for the Judah Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, directed the international Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, and founded the collective literary magazine The Open Cell. She has run poetry readings and writers workshops in the Bay Area, Paris, and elsewhere, and recently compiled an anthology of West Coast Jewish women's poetry. She holds an M.A. from San Francisco State University and a B.A. from Cornell University. A reunited birthmother and former welfare mother, she is active in peace and social justice issues and received the 2006 award of the Columbia River Fellowship for Peace.
