Patricia Tennison

lives in Chicago and Paris.

She is a veteran features and news writer, movie editor, and restaurant reviewer for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago magazine, author of James Beard Award-honored cookbooks, and an adjunct professor of writing at National Louis University in Chicago.

She received her bachelor’s degree in English literature and French from Boston University, and her master’s degree in English literature from Boston College.

Too stuffy? Add tap dancing and stints as a movie extra thisclose (!) to Johnny Depp and Laurence Fishburne.

Joseph Prendergast

lives in Chicago and Paris.

He taught writing and poetry in Chicago-area public schools and is the recipient of several National Endowment for the Humanities grants.

He studied poetry for five years with Molly Daniels in the Clothesline Creative Writing School in Chicago, and his poems have appeared in The American Cowboy Poetry Magazine, Father Gander Rhymes, Storyhead, RiverSedge, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and The Evansville Review.

He is the author of “The Cathedrals of France: A Poet’s 
View.”

Joseph took a sabbatical from baguettes and cheese to teach English for three years in China. He now has returned to Paris Café Writing.