Paula Span

Paula Span

Paula Span spent half her career at the Washington Post, first as the New York-based correspondent for the Style section, then as a staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. The other half was devoted to freelancing for a raft of publications, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and its magazine, the Boston Globe and its magazine, The New York Times and its magazine, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Magazine, city magazines in Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington, Glamour, Ms, Esquire, Parenting, People and others. Now a contributing writer for the Washington Post Magazine and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, she is at work on a book about adult children and aging parents, to be published in 2009.

She has taught journalism at Montclair State University in New Jersey, was the McGraw Professor in Writing at Princeton University in 2000, and has led workshops for the Alaska Press Club, the South Asian Journalists Association, and the Washington Post’s In-House University. She has also judged journalism competitions for the Alaska Press Club and the New York Press Club. Span is an alumna of Boston University (BS in journalism) and the alternative press (the Boston Phoenix).