Biography

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Photo: Ilana Panich-Linsman

PAULA PANICH, a journalist, teacher, writer, and speaker, has been writing about plants, gardens, food, and travel for two decades.

She holds a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and teaches in the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program. She has also taught at  the New York Botanical Garden, the Berkshire Botanical Garden, the Getty Canter, and at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, California), among other horticultural venues, and at Boston University.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Gastronomica, Better Homes and Gardens, and other publications.

Three books are forthcoming in 2012: Missing Meg, a novel set in 1932 Hollywood; The Cook, The Landlord, The Countess & her Lover, a culinary memoir; and Bloody Woman, a memoir set in London.

She is the author of Cultivating Words, and coauthor with Nora Burba Trulsson of The Desert Southwest and Desert Southwest Gardens (Bantam Books), and was editor of DiRT: A Garden Journal from the Connecticut River Valley. She serves on the editorial board of Eden, the quarterly publication of The California Garden and Landscape History Society. She is also a member of greatgardenspeakers.com.

She is now a full-fledged Zone 9 (Los Angeles) gardener.  She thinks writing is hard, but also that she has the best job in the world.

 

Paula Panich has taught writing courses at: