Kyle Jarrard

The writer

Kyle Jarrard is a Texas-born writer who moved to France in 1981, where he lives near Paris and works as a senior editor at the International Herald Tribune, longtime expat favorite and overseas voice of The New York Times. He's written many pieces for the paper on everything from the Cognac rush in Russia to an afternoon with William S. Burroughs. He's also published two novels, about which you can learn about elsewhere on this site, and one nonfiction work, on the history of Cognac, which also has been published in French. And he's a writer of short stories and poems, which may get republished sometime on this site as well. These have appeared in many magazines, including the North American Review, Mississippi Review, Frank, Oyster Boy Review, Eclectica, Rain City Review, Pharos, Descant, New Orleans Review, Octavo and American Way.


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