Paula Friedman

Paula Friedman is author of the literary historical novel The Rescuer's Path (PVP 2012), which Ursula K. Le Guin has called "exciting, physically vivid, and romantic," Cheryl Strayed terms "vivid, humane, and wise--held me from the first page to the last," and of which Flannery O'Connor Award winner Carole L. Glickfeld notes, "I could not stop reading--I loved this novel."


Friedman, a freelance author and editor, has edited (with Jot Russell and Carrol Fix) The Future Is Short (Lillicat 2014), an anthology of 51 sf microstories by 37 authors; previously, she directed the international Rosenberg Award program in Jewish poetry, edited the 2,000-circulation literary review The Open Cell, and co-edited an anthology of women's poetry, Gathered from the Center. Her short fiction and poems have appeared in over 30 literary journals and anthologies. Friedman was formerly a journalist and a museum publicist.