La Vie Creative

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Kristin Sanders is an American poet, freelance copywriter, and educator. She is the author of the hybrid poetry book Cuntry , a finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series, and two poetry chapbooks: Orthorexia , and This is a map of their watching me, a finalist in the 2015 BOAAT Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has been recently included in Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Pre...

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Carrie Chappell is the author of Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022) and Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap Press 2021). Her poems have been published in Iron Horse Literary Review , Nashville Review , Redivider , SWIMM , and Yemassee , and her essays have previously appeared in DIAGRAM , Fanzine , New Delta Review , The Iowa Review , The Rumpus , The Rupture , and Xavier Review . Each sprin...

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Fourth generation Chicagoan and critically lauded vocalist Kimberly Gordon is sought after by the elite jazz listener. Kimberly's grandfather was a dancer at the historic Chêz Pareé nightclub and her Nana was a camera girl there, a position aquired by childhood friend and mobster Sam Giancana. These stories and personal ties to Chicago nightclub history laid the foundation for Kimberly's...

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Hi I'm Kaitlyn, I am an artist living in Paris. I moved here three & a half years ago with my partner & have been studying art & French in Montmartre, where I currently reside. I have a background in Arts & Human Services from Cornish College of the Arts in my hometown of Seattle, Washington & have continued to study different mediums since arriving in France. Before our m...

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Jason Stoneking is a poet, diarist, and performing artist from the United States, who now lives in Paris. He has published several collections of poetry and nonfiction, and has also written for songs and film. Recently, his art practice has concentrated on the creation of unique handwritten texts. For his Bespoke Books series, he writes an entire unique book by hand, in a single draft, either for...

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Leslie McAllister is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Pennsylvania in the United States, but now based in Paris. Her works explore a diverse array of process and media. Among her recent endeavors are a street art project, Lost Art , for which she harvests discarded objects from the street, paints on them, and returns them to where they were found along with her contact information; and a...

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I grew up in North Carolina and first moved to Paris in 2008, where I’ve lived for the better part of fourteen years as a writer, musician in the indie-pop band Slim and The Beast , and prolific worker of part-time jobs. Currently, I’m a literary tour guide and lecturer for Context Travel, an adjunct creative writing teacher at the Sorbonne, and a host of the Paris Writers’ Salon with the author J...

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 Mackenzie Leighton is a musician and florist based in Paris since 2017. Originally from the United States, she grew up in a small seaside town in Maine where she studied classical piano at a young age. She moved to New York in 2014 and played in several folk, jazz, and indie-pop bands before moving to France to launch her solo career. With precise songwriting and soft electric guitar picking, her...

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Ai Shimizu, Designer-Maker All lingerie is designed, drafted, graded, cut, dyed, sewn and packaged with love in Paris, France by Ai. A former Los Angeleno and graduate of Otis College of Art and Design (BFA Fashion Design), she has also completed courses in Paris at Formamod, La Chambre Syndicale and Lycée Professionnel Octave Feuillet.   Les Bonnes Vivantes Paris is an artisanal lingerie brand ba...

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Food has always been a passion. MasterChef Australia in 2013 though helped me start a new chapter in my life, a fabulous one of course! Andrew Prior since 2016 has been living, travelling, breathing, cooking and eating all things French in France of course.  After the experience of MasterChef he realised that his passion was food and travel. So he started a successful walking food tours business i...

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Ryan Egan is an American artist and songwriter living in Paris, France. With the release of his EPs Fever & Bloom and Postures , along with a slew of self-produced singles, Ryan has gained critical acclaim from outlets like Billboard , Noisey , DIY , Clash and more as well as substantial support from Spotify and Apple Music editorial teams, accumulating millions of streams across platforms. Hi...

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Susan Boyle is a playwright and drinks researcher and consultant. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Technological University, Dublin. Her research in Beverage Studies concerns performance, storytelling and the sensory in immersive drinks experiences with particular reference to beer, wine and Irish spirits such as whiskey. Her research is supported by a TU Dublin Scholarship. Her one-woman wi...