Meet our talented family of teachers—each an accomplished writer and trustworthy guide. Leaf through our faculty bios, profiles, book excerpts, and writing advice articles. You’ll like the people you meet.
Lyndsey Ellis

Faculty Profile

Meet Lyndsey Ellis

Gotham teacher Lyndsey Ellis didn’t mean to be a bridge.

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Mary Donnelly

Faculty Profile

Meet Mary Donnelly

“Think of the music!”

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The instructor was extremely insightful and offered meaningful, individualized commentary designed to allow for the tremendous growth of each and every potential writer.

Susan Avery, journalist

Faculty Excerpts

Worse than Strangers

Worse than Strangers

Kyleigh Leddy
The following is an excerpt from the prologue of Kyleigh Leddy's novel, Worse than Strangers. ***LottieOctober 11, 1998—Nantucket IslandRegret isn’t passive. It’s not something you can stuff away, suppress deeper and deeper. The less you tend to it, the more...
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Burying the Typewriter

Burying the Typewriter

Carmen Bugan
The following is an excerpt from a new edition of Carmen Bugan's memoir, Burying the Typewriter.***Old PhotographsEvery few weeks my mother rearranges the family pictures around the house. She also moves the beds and the rugs, and she places every...
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Faculty Articles

Teresa Wong

Why Write Your Family’s Story?

Teresa Wong
For much of my childhood in the 1980s, my mother served up Chinese fast food from a stand in a second-rate suburban mall. Her customers were mostly teens from the local high school and elderly regulars who mall-walked throughout winter,...
Robert Repino

The Essential Storytelling Device that Fuels Superman and The Matrix

Robert Repino
I am both proud and slightly horrified to say that my first published novel took over a year to write, and three long years to rewrite. And that’s not counting the failed book projects that preceded it over the previous...