Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg is the author of the New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Penguin Press, 2010) and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Book Review, and Opinion Page.  He also writes for National Geographic Magazine, GQ, Vogue, and other publications.

In the last four years he has been a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow, and a writer-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation’s Liguria Study Center near Genoa, Italy. His 2002 novel Leaving Katya (Putnam) was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Greenberg ran international television production and training programs for the nonprofit organization Internews.

Working in the countries of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia, Greenberg designed and implemented journalism curricula for television and radio professionals and oversaw the production of conflict-resolution television series. A graduate in Russian Studies from Brown University, Mr. Greenberg speaks Russian and French.