Ellen C. Hinsey (born 1960) teaches writing and literature at the Skidmore College program in Paris and at the French graduate school, the Ecole Polytechnique. Skidmore College is a private liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city For other Écoles Polytechniques see École Polytechnique de Montréal and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She is the author of The White Fire of Time (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) and Cities of Memory, which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition prize in 1996. Wesleyan University Press, founded (in present form in 1959 is a University press that is part of Wesleyan University (Connecticut The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American Poet