| Kimberlee Auerbach is the author of the memoir The Devil, the Lovers & Me (Dutton), which is based on her one-woman show. She has performed her comedic monologues throughout New York City, competed in the Moth GrandSLAM Storytelling Championships, and appeared on such radio shows as Sex, Success and Sensibility with Candace Bushnell and Wake-Up with Cosmo. She has taught at Mediabistro and the Bank Street College of Education. She holds a BA from SUNY Purchase.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Humor Writing
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| Ryan Britt has published fiction and nonfiction in Nerve, Opium Magazine, Soon Quarterly, The Rumpus, Clarkesworld Magazine, The New Inquiry, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. His plays and performances have been seen at numerous venues, and he blogs for Tor.com.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Humor Writing
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| Kelly Caldwell has written for New York Newsday, House Beautiful, Time Out New York, The Writer, The Huffington Post, and others. One of her essays was named a Notable Essay by the editors of the Best American Essays series and anthologized in If These Walls Could Talk: Thoughts of Home. She is also the associate dean of Gotham Writers' Workshop. She holds a BJ from the University of Missouri and an MS from Columbia University.
Also Teaches: Essay and Opinion
Personal Essay Writing
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| Marie Carter is the author of the memoir The Trapeze Diaries (Hanging Loose Press). Her work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Bloom, Spectacle, Turntable + Bluelight, and in the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton). She serves as associate editor of Hanging Loose Press, where she has edited the anthologies Word Jig and Voices of the City. She holds an MA in English Literature from Edinburgh University.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
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| Roohi Choudhry has published fiction and nonfiction in Callaloo, Bitch, Hyphen, Desilicious, Fiction Writers Review, and the anthology 21 Under 40. She has taught at the University of Michigan and led workshops for the New York Writers’ Coalition. She holds a BSc from Lahore University of Management Sciences, an MS in Marketing Research from the University of Texas at Arlington, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan.
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| Christen Clifford has published nonfiction in Salon, nerve, New York Press, Evergreen Review, Apokalypsa, SALT, Smith Magazine, Bambini, Black and White, Blue, and the anthologies Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong and The Masters. She is the writer/performer of the solo shows Baby Love and 17 Guys. She holds a BA from NYU and an MFA in Nonfiction from The New School.
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| Elizabeth Cohen is the author of the memoir The Family On Beartown Road (Random House), the short story collection The Hypothetical Girl (Split Oak Press), the poetry colleciton The Economist's Daughter (Ecstatic Utterance), and co-author of the nonfiction book The Scalpel and the Silver Bear (Bantam). Her essays, articles, and poetry have appeared in Newsweek, People, the New York Times Magazine, Yale Review, Northwest Review, Glamour, Parenting, Rolling Stone and Family Circle. She has taught at Binghamton University, University of New Mexico, the New School for Social Research, and Western Connecticut State University. She holds a BA from University of New Mexico, an MA in Documentary Filmmaking from Temple University, and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.
Also Teaches: Fiction Writing
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| Kerry Cohen is the author of the memoir Loose Girl (Hyperion) and the young adult novels Easy (Simon & Schuster), The Good Girl and It's Not You, It's Me (Delacorte). She has taught at Clark College, Mt. Hood Community College, and City University in Vancouver, Washington. She holds a BA from Clark University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.
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| Katherine Dykstra is in the anthology 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers (Random House). She serves as an editor at Guernica and a contributing writer for the New York Post. Her nonfiction has appeared in New York, Allure, TimeOut New York, Redbook, Fodor’s Travel Guides, Weekend, the Independent Film and Video Monthly, and Ironminds. She holds a BA from the University of Missouri and an MFA in Nonfiction from the New School University.
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| Janice Erlbaum is the author of the memoirs Girlbomb (Villard), and Have You Found Her (Villard). She is a columnist for Bust magazine, and her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in New York Press, Interview, PAPER, and McSweeneys Internet Tendency. She holds a BA from Hunter College and an MA in English/Writing from NYU.
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| Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martins Press). Her fiction and essays have been published in The Southeast Review, Redivider, Storyscape Journal, Artisan, Italics Mine, Bitch Magazine, Smut Magazine and Lostwriters.net, and her articles have been published in Cape Cod Life Magazine, GO Magazine, Citysearch, and Summerguide. She has taught at SUNY, Purchase and Hofstra University. She holds a BLA from the New School and an MFA in Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
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| Meredith Franco Meyers has held editorial positions at Ladies’ Home Journal, Fitness, Lifetime and iVillage. Her articles have been published in Self, Modern Bride, InStyle Specials, Bridal Guide, and Time Out New York. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Writing from The New School.
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| Shahnaz Habib has published fiction and nonfiction in the anthologies Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House) and 21 Under 40 (Zubaan). She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker online, the Guardian blogs, and Of Note magazine. She holds a BA from Mahatma Gandhi University, and MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi, and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Write It Right!
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| Lindsay Harrison Lindsay Harrison is the author of the memoir Missing (Simon & Schuster). She holds a BA from Brown and an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
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| Colleen Kinder is the author of the guidebook Delaying the Real World (Running Press), and she co-edited the essay anthology Confessions of a High School Nerd (Penguin). Her articles and essays have been published in the New York Times, National Geographic, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, the New Republic, Transitions Abroad, Ms., Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, A Public Space, and Prairie Schooner, and the anthologies A Woman's World Again (Traveler's Tales) and 20-Something Essays by 20-Something Writers (Random House). She has taught at the University of Iowa. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.
Also Teaches: Travel Writing
Write It Right!
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| Scott LaCounte is the author of the humor memoir Quiet, Please (Da Capo Books). He has published humor pieces in McSweeney's, The Door, Campus Life, Morning News, Pacific Review, and Orange County Register. He holds a BA from California State University, Fullerton, and an MLIS in Library Science from San Jose State University.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Humor Writing
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| Fran McNulty is the co-author of the nonfiction book Powerplay (Simon & Schuster). She has written features and food reviews for the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation, Barrons, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, and New York Woman. She has taught at City University of New York and William Paterson College. She holds a BA from Harvard.
Also Teaches: Food Writing
Nonfiction 101
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| Kyle Minor is the author of the short story collection In the Devil's Territory (Dzanc Books) and editor of The Other Chekhov (New American Press). He has published fiction and nonfiction in the Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Mid-American Review, and in the anthologies Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (Houghton Mifflin) and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House). His work has been honored in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly and Writer's Digest. He has taught at Ohio State, Antioch, and Capital Universities, and the University of Toledo. He holds a BA from Anderson University, an MA in Creative Writing from Antioch, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State.
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| Stacy Pershall is the author of the memoir Loud in the House of Myself (W.W. Norton), selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, and her work is included in the anthology Lost and Found (W.W. Norton). She has taught at Writopia, Pratt Manhattan, and City College of New York. She holds a BA from the University of Arkansas and an MFA in Performance Art from the University of Cincinnati.
Also Teaches: Unbound: Creative Writing
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| Melissa Petro has published nonfiction in Salon, Rumpus, the Daily Beast, Penthouse, Bitch, The Nervous Breakdown, Whiskey Dregs, The Gloss, The Fix, xojane, and Post Road, and her work appears in the anthologies Sex Work Matters and Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys. She has taught in the New York City public schools. She holds a BA from Antioch, an MS in Education from Fordham, and an MFA in Nonfiction from the New School.
Also Teaches: Essay and Opinion
Personal Essay Writing
Write-In
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Julie Powell
is the author of the memoirs Julie And Julia (Little, Brown and Company) and Cleaving (Back Bay Books). Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Bon Appetit and Slate, among others, and anthologized in Altared and Behind The Bedroom Door. Two of her essays have been included in the Best Food Writing series. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College. |
| Emily Rapp is the author of the memoir Poster Child (Bloomsbury). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Silent Voices, Terminus, The Sun, Texas Observer, Segue, and StoryQuarterly. She has received awards and recognition from the Atlantic Monthly, StoryQuarterly, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, the Jentel Arts Foundation, and she is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. She has taught at Antioch University Los Angeles, Bucknell University, the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and the Provincetown Adult Education Program. She is a Fulbright scholar and holds a BA from Saint Olaf College, an MTS from Harvard University, and an MFA in Fiction and Poetry from the University of Texas.
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| Martha Schulman has published fiction and nonfiction in the The Seattle Review, The Beacon Street Review, Gulf Stream, Jewish Currents, The Kings English and the 2003 Bridport Prize Anthology. She also reviews nonfiction for Publishers Weekly. She has taught at Columbia University and is a writing tutor and humanities instructor at The Cooper Union. She holds an AB from the University of Chicago, an MAT from Brown University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
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| David Seigerman is co-author of the nonfiction book Take Your Eye Off the Ball (Triumph Books). He has served as managing editor of College Sports Television as well as a field producer at CNN-Sports Illustrated, senior writer at College Sports Magazine, and sports reporter/columnist at Newsday and the Jackson Sun. His freelance work has appeared on ESPN and in many newspapers and magazines. He co-produced and co-wrote the documentary film, The Warrior Ethos: The Experience and Tradition of Boxing at West Point. He holds a BA from Ithaca College.
Also Teaches: Documentary Films
Essay and Opinion
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Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury), and has published short stories and essays in numerous journals, including DoubleTake, CRATE, and Bayou. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University and UNC at Chapel Hill. He holds a BA from Ohio University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Penn State and an MA in Folklore from UNC at Chapel Hill.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Fiction Writing
Novel Writing
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| Ana Maria Spagna is the author of the memoirs Potluck andNow Go Home (both Oregon State University Press), and Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus (University of Nebraska Press). She has published personal essays in Orion, Utne Reader, Backpacker, Oregon Quarterly, and in the anthology Best Essays NW. She holds a BA from the University of Oregon and an MA in Fiction from Northern Arizona University.
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| Alexander Steele is the Dean of Faculty at Gotham Writers' Workshop. He is the editor of Writing Fiction, Fiction Gallery, and Writing Movies (all Bloomsbury USA). He is the author of numerous children's books, including titles in the Wishbone series (Lyrick Publishing) and the Hardy Boys series (Pocket Books). His plays include One Glorious Afternoon, Lightning and Frenzy, and King of Ragtime, and he scripted the documentary World War II: It Happened in Color. He holds a BA from Vanderbilt University.
Also Teaches: Children's Book Writing
Nonfiction 101
Screenwriting
Write-In
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| Pat Willard is the author of the nonfiction books: America Eats! (Bloomsbury), Pie Every Day (Algonquin), A Soothing Broth (Broadway Books), and Secrets of Saffron (Beacon Press). She is a contributor to the recently released Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, (Oxford University Press) and her work has been anthologized in Best Food Writing of 2001 (Marlowe & Co.), and Best American Recipes 2002-2003 (Houghton Mifflin). She has published nonfiction in Topic, Garden Design, American Heritage, New York Newsday, Brooklyn Bridge, Los Angeles Times, Ladies Home Journal, Bon Appetit, and Food History News. She holds an MFA in Literary Nonfiction from Goucher College.
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