Augustine Blaisdell is the author of Women À La Mode: A Memoir of Writing a Book about Feminists in Paris. Essays from her work in progress, The Philogyny Project have been published by Catapult Story, KGB Bar Online Literary Magazine, and supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Originally from Los Angeles, California, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She is the founder of The Writers Retreat in the Côte d'Azur in the south of France.