Paris-thumbI’m excited to announce that the travel anthology Wandering in Paris: Luminaries and Love in the City of Light, has just been awarded first place in its category (anthologies) at the London Book Festival!

Twenty of my photos—and three of my best stories yet—are included in the anthology.

  • French Kiss: In which I research Parisian intimacies in an attempt to discover what makes French women so … French. And what makes a French kiss French. Also involved: Parisian household appliances and expensive lingerie.
  • Bien-Être at the Hammam: In which I find myself nearly naked and smeared with a mysterious goop in a roomful of strangers who do not speak English. In the midst of thick, swirling steam. Without my glasses.
  • Death in Paris: In which I am haunted—and then healed—by the Specter of Death while visiting the city that loves to celebrate the macabre, from reliquaries and taxidermy to cemeteries and catacombs.

More info here: ParisPrizePressRelease.