Dina Paul, resting her chin on her hand, in the light of a café window

Asheville, North Carolina

Dina Paul

Literary nonfiction shaped by ordinary life.

Dina Paul writes about family, friends, and the body’s long memory. Her work attends to rooms, records, ordinary objects — a towel folded on a bed — and the private consequences of public systems. Her first book, The Room They Gave Me: A Memoir of Care, is complete and on submission.

They did not offer rescue as a speech. They made a room.