PAULA
BERNSTEIN is a freelance writer whose work
has been published in The New York Times, New
York, The Village Voice, and Redbook,
among other publications. Formerly a reporter at Variety and The
Hollywood Reporter, Bernstein has also been
a regular contributor to CNN. A graduate of Wellesley
College, she has a master’s degree in cinema
studies from New York University. Bernstein currently
teaches an online course in memoir writing for mediabistro.com and
writes the blog Undomesticated
Me. www.paulabernstein.com
ELYSE
SCHEIN is a writer and filmmaker. Her short
films I Steal Happiness and Private
Dick have been shown at the Telluride Film Festival
and at cinemas in Prague and San Francisco. A graduate
of Stony Brook University, she studied film at FAMU,
Prague’s Film and TV School of the Academy
of Performing Arts. Schein lives
in Brooklyn, where she is at work on a fiction film
entitled, Emergency Contact. www.elyseschein.com
