
Claire Lerognon
Claire Lerognon is a language and communications specialist at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Her interest in languages and language acquisition led to a colorful career teaching French to students ranging from preschoolers to diplomats and the UN’s global staff. She is currently part of the Language and Communications Training Unit where she specializes in training design and development geared towards fostering multilingualism in the organization. The Heart of an Artichoke is her first book — and boldest learning venture yet. Claire lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The Heart of an Artichoke
Teboho Moja
Dr. Teboho Moja is a Clinical Professor of Higher Education at New York University, an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape – South Africa, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is the recipient of the Martin Luther King, jr. Faculty Award (2019), the National Research Foundation- Lifetime Achiever Award (2019), Women in International Education Award (2019), and Graduate Students Star Award (2019). She previously served as an Executive Director and Commissioner of the National Commission on Higher Education in South Africa (1995), appointed by President Mandela. The Commission produced a national report that provided a framework for higher education reform in South Africa. She has published extensively on higher education policy, presented numerous keynote addresses at international conferences on higher education issues. Before coming to NYU, Teboho Moja served as a Special Advisor to the Minister of Education. Teboho Moja has served on numerous committees, advisory boards and boards of international bodies such as UNESCO and Councils of Universities in South Africa. She has served as Chair on various Boards. In 2010 she was appointed visiting professor at the University of Oslo (Norway) and University of Tampere (Finland), and in 2017 she was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Uncle Steve’s Country Home; The Blue Dress


Linda Phillips Ashour
Linda Phillips Ashour is the author of four novels: Speaking in Tongues, Joy Baby, Sweet Remedy, and A Comforting Lie. Speaking in Tongues is the story of an expat from Oklahoma that was written when she lived in the South of France. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New York Sun, Mia, and the Weekly Standard. She has published short fiction in the Paris Review and the North American Review and was a contributor to My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family. She has taught writing at UCLA Extension, received a Beck fellowship from Denison University, and been a fellow at Yaddo. Her new book, The Heart of an Artichoke, co-authored with Claire Lerognon, offers a non-traditional menu of possibilities for anyone hungry for French language and culture. Linda lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
The Heart of an Artichoke
Mary Chi-Whi Kim
Mary Chi-Whi Kim is a mother of two beautiful Afro-Asian children and a writer and educator who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Her essays, stories, and poems have featured in The New York Times Magazine, NPR’s Snap Judgment, The Heartlands Today, Calliope, Calyx, Primavera, Many Mountains Moving, Margie, Women’s Arts Quarterly, and Literary Mama. She won two poem commissions from the Multicultural Center of The Ohio State University from which she earned a BA and MA in English Literature. Also gaining an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University, she garnered publication for her poetry chapbook, Silken Purse, from Pudding House Press. Her multi-genre creative writing/self-help book dedicated to survivors of childhood sexual assault, Karma Suture, garnered an Honorable Mention in the Writers’ Digest International Self-Published Books Contest. Committing two decades to the field of education, she has taught multicultural English literature and creative writing at the Seoul Language Institute, The Ohio State University, and Savannah College of Art and Design.
Super Korean New Years with Grandma


Eunjoo Feaster
Eunjoo is an illustrator and graphic designer who receive her degree from School of Visual Arts in NYC. A firm believer in life-long learning, she continued with her education at the Center for Book Arts, SVA Continuing Education, Cooper Union Continuing Education. The Lower Eastside Printshop as well as attending a bookbinding workshop in Czech Republic. She has been published in many different publications such as Calyx, Crone, a. magazine, Kidsart, United Nations, McGraw-Hill Publishing, JK Lasser Publishing. Eunjoo has also worked for many individual clients creating logos, layouts, designs and illustrations. She has also donated her skills, time and money to various charities that empower girls and women. Many years ago, she lived at an elephant village working as an art teacher for the elephants. After having children of her own, she co-founded a Korean preschool with a friend. She lives in NY with her children, husband and an elderly black cat.
Super Korean New Years with Grandma
Charles Mercier
Dr. Charles Mercier is professor of Classics at College of Humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut, the college seminary of the Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic religious congregation of pontifical right. He holds BA and PhD in Classics from Columbia University and has taught Classical and European Humanities and Greek and Latin language and literature at Columbia, City College of New York, Vassar College, University of Southern California, and Fairfield University. Charles has long cultivated an interest in performance of ancient Greek and Roman poetry and drama in both productions and academic publications. His journalism for Catholic news sources has communicated his interest in nineteenth century Catholic history and in the theological notion of purification of memory promoted by John Paul II and what it implies for Catholic humanities education. After a trip to Zambia in 2001 he produced a documentary short about the life of AIDS orphans in Lusaka and a CD compilation of songs by street kids with an accurate edition of their lyrics in Town Bemba and Nyanja. After a trip to Iraqi Kurdistan in 2016 he wrote on the Chaldean Catholic archdiocese of Erbil. He has translated previously, from Latin, Terence Brothers (1997). The new edition by TBR Books of Peter Pernin’s The Finger of God is There! began as family history: Charles is the great grandson of one of Pernin’s two nieces who accompanied him from France to Illinois in 1864.
Peshtigo 1871

Claire Lerognon
Claire Lerognon is a language and communications specialist at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Her interest in languages and language acquisition led to a colorful career teaching French to students ranging from preschoolers to diplomats and the UN’s global staff. She is currently part of the Language and Communications Training Unit where she specializes in training design and development geared towards fostering multilingualism in the organization. The Heart of an Artichoke is her first book — and boldest learning venture yet. Claire lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Teboho Moja
Dr. Teboho Moja is a Clinical Professor of Higher Education at New York University, an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape – South Africa, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is the recipient of the Martin Luther King, jr. Faculty Award (2019), the National Research Foundation- Lifetime Achiever Award (2019), Women in International Education Award (2019), and Graduate Students Star Award (2019). She previously served as an Executive Director and Commissioner of the National Commission on Higher Education in South Africa (1995), appointed by President Mandela. The Commission produced a national report that provided a framework for higher education reform in South Africa. She has published extensively on higher education policy, presented numerous keynote addresses at international conferences on higher education issues. Before coming to NYU, Teboho Moja served as a Special Advisor to the Minister of Education. Teboho Moja has served on numerous committees, advisory boards and boards of international bodies such as UNESCO and Councils of Universities in South Africa. She has served as Chair on various Boards. In 2010 she was appointed visiting professor at the University of Oslo (Norway) and University of Tampere (Finland), and in 2017 she was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Uncle Steve’s Country Home; The Blue Dress
Linda Phillips Ashour
Linda Phillips Ashour is the author of four novels: Speaking in Tongues, Joy Baby, Sweet Remedy, and A Comforting Lie. Speaking in Tongues is the story of an expat from Oklahoma that was written when she lived in the South of France. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New York Sun, Mia, and the Weekly Standard. She has published short fiction in the Paris Review and the North American Review and was a contributor to My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family. She has taught writing at UCLA Extension, received a Beck fellowship from Denison University, and been a fellow at Yaddo. Her new book, The Heart of an Artichoke, co-authored with Claire Lerognon, offers a non-traditional menu of possibilities for anyone hungry for French language and culture. Linda lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
The Heart of an Artichoke

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