He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Blue Mountain Center. He has collaborated on books with Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and with Peter Martins, ballet master-in-chief of the New York City Ballet. He lives in Washington, DC, and New York City. Herve Blondon illustrated Alan Garner's The Well of the Wind, from which two paintings were selected for exhibit by the Society of Illustrators. He has done pastels for several books, as well as editorial pieces for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. He lives in Montreal.