Beverley Lehman West

Beverley Lehman West is a transplanted San Franciscan. She lived in Paris and New York before settling on Bainbridge Island in 1977. She has worked as a reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle and as an ESL instructor at Seattle Central College. Her poems and stories have appeared in regional journals as well as in an early chapbook, For All the Wrong Reasons. Beverley’s recent memoir, Finding My Way Back to 1950s Paris, is about a young San Franciscan going to Paris in the 50s, living in a garret, studying French, writing in cafes on the Left Bank, listening to jazz in dank caves, and of course falling in love a few times. The memoir was a finalist for the 2015 Nancy Pearl Book Award of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.