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Carolyn Moncel's Biography

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Paris/Lausanne
Apr 2011

A virtual media and web consultant by day and author by night, Carolyn Davenport-Moncel moved to Paris from Chicago, her hometown, in 2001. She received her bachelors degree in Communications from Loyola University.

Known for her online articles on media relations, Moncel owns MotionTemps, LLC, a Digital Project and Web Content Management firm with offices in Chicago, Paris and Geneva; and its subsidiary, Mondavé Communications, a media relations training and publishing company.  She has written, placed articles or been featured in such diverse publications as Entreprenuer.com, Expatica.com, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Wired News, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Bonjour Paris, Café de la Soul, PrissyMag and Working Mother.  

She currently resides in Lausanne, Switzerland with her husband and two daughters.  Encounters in Paris is her first work of fiction.  Her next collection of short stories, 5 Reasons to Leave a Lover will debut in fall 2011.

Influences

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Philip Roth

Upcoming Works

5 Reasons to Leave a Lover - A Novella and Other Short Stories
Encounters in Paris - A Novel
Geneva Nights - A Novel
What My Momma Used to Say - Five Essays on Raising Honorable Children in an Increasingly Dishonorable World

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