Douglas Curran is a writer, editor, artist, and book maker.

As fiction writer and essayist, he is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame MFA program and the recipient of an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship. Douglas’s short stories and essays have been published in cutting-edge and traditional literary journals alike, including American Letters & Commentary, Exquisite Corpse, takahē, Notre Dame Magazine, The Frogmore Papers, A Shape Produced by a Curve (great weather for MEDIA), Evening Street Review, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. His literary prose ranges from fabulist-leaning metafiction and allegory to atmospheric short tales, and includes the ghost story “Evangeline,” which is currently being adapted for performance on The Kaidankai Podcast.

For more than twenty-five years, Douglas has been a highly regarded editor of award-winning books on architecture, landscape architecture, art, and design. He began his career in publishing in 2000 at Rizzoli International Publications in New York, assuming the role of senior architecture editor and management of Rizzoli’s storied architecture-publishing program in 2016. For Rizzoli, he acquired and edited more than two hundred books, including Diane Keaton’s The House that Pinterest Built as well as the seminal Frank Lloyd Wright The Houses.

Founding HEDGEHOG EDITORIAL PROJECT MGMT in 2020 as a complement to his work with Rizzoli, Douglas edited, developed, and designed books for Rizzoli, Universe Publishing, and boutique publisher G Editions. Since concluding his tenure at Rizzoli in 2024, he has deepened his relationship with books, expanding his practice to include both illustrated and non-illustrated works, non-traditional publications, book packaging and development, and logo design, while nurturing a commitment to editorial and publications consulting.

A writer on architecture and landscape architecture, he has recently completed the text (introduction, project texts, captions) for the monograph Capturing Essence on the work of landscape architecture firm Virginia Burt Designs, to be published by ORO Editions in the fall of 2026. He is currently at work on a monograph with Walker Warner Architects, for which he is writing the principal text.

Multidisciplinary at essence, his practice as a versatile creative is informed by a wide range of passions that frequently commingle writing and visual art, manifesting most prominently in his illustrated book work but appearing also in his drawings, as a cartoonist and illustrator. This work has been published in Time magazine, in Potpourri, and in the form of a hand-drawn logo for the newly established HOL Press.

Born and raised on Long Island, Douglas was educated at Pratt Institute, Binghamton University, Oxford University, New York University, the University of Vienna, and the University of Notre Dame. He holds degrees in English and General Literature (BA), Interdisciplinary Studies (MA), and English and Creative Writing (MFA). He has taught English Literature at the Zwi Perez Chajes Shule in Vienna, Austria, and Freshman Composition and Critical Reading at Indiana University South Bend.

He also happily shares his life with his wife, Zen, who took the above photo of the author at Parkside Lounge in New York.