Douglas Curran is a writer, editor, teacher, and artist in Brooklyn, New York. His short stories, essays, and illustrations have appeared in Time magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, The Frogmore Papers, Andrei Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse, American Letters and Commentary, Evening Street Review, and elsewhere.

He is founding principal of Hedgehog Editorial, a Brooklyn-based practice with an expertise in illustrated book creation and project management. An inventive editor of award-winning, artfully designed and manufactured illustrated books for the general trade, he is former longtime editor of architecture and design at Rizzoli International Publications, New York.

Born and raised on Long Island, he was educated at Pratt Institute, Binghamton University, Oxford University, New York University, the University of Vienna, and the University of Notre Dame. He holds degrees in English and General Literature (BA), Interdisciplinary Studies (MA), and English and Creative Writing (MFA). He has taught English Literature at the Zwi Perez Chajes Shule in Vienna, Austria, and Freshman Composition and Critical Reading at Indiana University South Bend.

Author, editor, painter, educator, he manages a multidisciplinary practice that is informed by the fertile interplay of diverse interests at the crossroads of storytelling, art making, and design.

He also happily shares his life with his wife, Zen, who took the above photo of the author as businessman-bartender in the one-time home of Argentine poet Leopoldo Lugones at Sarmiento 1775, Buenos Aires.