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.
Holley Cornetto

Faculty Profile

Meet Holley Cornetto

"As a human being, I'm a very anxious person.” Gotham teacher Holley Cornetto says.

“There's a lot of things that I'm afraid of and horror kind of gives me that safe space to confront my fears and to deal with and work through those emotions in a healthy way where I'm not actually putting myself in danger."

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Adela Brito

Faculty Profile

Meet Adela Brito

“Music influences me a lot,” says Gotham teacher Adela Brito. She incorporates vintage music (along with her Cuban culture) in most everything she writes.

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This is now my third class at Gotham and every teacher has been top notch.

Paula Heaphy, illustrator/textile designer

Faculty Excerpts

Blood Mountain

Blood Mountain

James Preller
This is an excerpt from James Preller's middle-grade novel, Blood Mountain.Carter keeps fighting, keeps moving forward.Bog all around him.He longs for firm footing, a dry fire.Twilight drops down like a quivering leaf. The bugs gather in swarms. For the first...
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A Better World: A Novel

A Better World: A Novel

Sarah Langan
This is an excerpt from Sarah Langan's forthcoming novel A Better World.The Sinking Ship “Some people aren’t suited. It’s nothing personal,” Jack Lust said. “They’re simply a wrong fit.”This guy was a clown. The creepy kind. Linda Farmer didn’t like...
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Faculty Articles

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...
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

On Revision

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Writers have a love­/hate relationship with revi­sion. On the one hand, we hate it because we want our pieces to come out right the first time, and the drafting process is so much more fun, full of prom­ise and discovery,...