Jules Elmore

is the author of The Amateur American (Crown) and two other pseudonymous novels. In 2002, I was a teaching assistant with Fulbright in France, and in 2004, I was awarded a New York Times Fellowship at New York University. I served on NYU’s full-time writing faculty until 2009, after which time I moved to New Orleans and edited the Spring 2010 edition of Edible New Orleans. In 2011, I joined the Creative Writing faculty at Tulane University, where I taught regular workshops in fiction and memoir. In 2014, I moved with my wife and two daughters to Oaxaca, Mexico, where we became permanent Mexican residents. In 2022, we moved to Lisbon, Portugal.

Prior to teaching & coaching

I worked as a painter, mycologist, deliveryman, and cheese monger—among several other less literary trades. I speak three foreign languages, have hitchhiked over a thousand miles in more than a dozen countries, and hold a master’s degree in fiction (New York University, 2006) and a black belt in Hung Gar (May 2022).

This range of experience has given me a broad appreciation for most story genres, a deep reverence for how character reveals itself through plot, and a bottomless passion for engaging storytelling. Beyond metaphor, I have never worked on a ship. But I believe there is still time.

In the meantime, my mission at Storyport is to serve writing and storytelling communities around the world by being an inspirational guide for those about to embark.