Jamie’s literary awards include the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, The Goldwyn Award in Screenwriting, The New York State Council on the Arts Grant, First Prize in the Writers Digest Fiction Competition (twice), a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant, a Bread Loaf Writing Conference Fellowship in fiction, and artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,  the Ragdale Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, The Dorland Mountain Artist Colony, VCCA International, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.

 

Jamie Cat Callan’s latest book, “French Women Don’t Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love” (Kensington) is forthcoming in March 2009.  Jamie is also the creator of “The Writers Toolbox” and has taught her unique right brain approach to writing at Yale University, Wesleyan University, NYU, UCLA, Stonecoast’s MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine, Educational Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, The YMCA Writers Voice Program, at Grub Street in Boston and through Media Bistro in New York City.

 

Jamie is married to Bill Thompson, a climate change scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. She lives on Cape Cod.  

 

Jamie is available to give readings, lead writing workshops and to speak on writing, love, romance, and leading a creative life.

 

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