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“Paulette Perhach is a teacher you can trust. She knows the creative writing process from hard work and constant practice.” — Charles Johnson, National Book Award-winning author of The Way of the Writer and Middle Passage
“Paulette Perhach is a teacher you can trust. She knows the creative writing process from hard work and constant practice.” — Charles Johnson, National Book Award-winning author of The Way of the Writer and Middle Passage
Paulette Perhach’s writing has been published in the New York Times, ELLE, Slate, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Stylist UK, and Salon. She’s worked for Health and Coastal Living magazines, as well as various newspapers.
In 2008 she launched Drift, an arts and culture monthly, which won Best New Magazine from the Florida Magazine Association that year. Hugo House awarded her the Made at Hugo House fellowship in 2013. She was nominated for the 2016 BlogHer Voices of the Year award for her essay, “Fuck Off Fund,” which is included in the anthology Freshman Year of Life from Flatiron Books and forthcoming in The Future Is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women from Chronicle Books, out in 2019. In 2018, Perhach won two travel writing awards from the Solas Awards. She is represented by Fletcher & Co.
During her time as a Peace Corps volunteer, Perhach produced an educational podcast that garnered more than 40,000 downloads. In 2015 she created the Writer’s Welcome Kit, an online course for writers that includes a 55,000-word workbook, which nearly 400 students have taken. Hugo House licenses and sells the course, and Sasquatch Books, now an imprint of Penguin Random House, will publish a book inspired by the course, called Welcome to the Writer’s Life.
Perhach worked for three years in the tech industry, selling $10M in technology with 200 proposals, which honed her skills for writing book proposals later.
Perhach holds a magazine journalism degree from the University of Florida, as well as three-fourths of an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University, which got interrupted by the success of the Fuck Off Fund essay when it reached a million readers.