Personal Essay Writing Faculty Biographies at Gotham Writers' Workshop and WritingClasses.com

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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 Memoir Writing

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.

Nan Mooney is the author of the memoir My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track (HarperCollins), and the nonfiction books (Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents (Beacon Press) and I Can't Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work (St. Martin's Press). Her work has also appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Slate, the Seattle Weekly, and Hamptons Jitney Magazine. She holds a BA from Scripps College. Also Teaches: Memoir Writing

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 Memoir Writing Write-In