| Ryan Bartelmay has published work in Boulevard, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Sycamore Review, and The Believer, and he won Boulevard's Emerging Writer's Award. He served as the fiction co-editor and managing editor at Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art and has taught at Columbia University and Kendall College. He holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
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Carole Bugge is the author of the novels The Star of India, (re-released by Titan Press), The Haunting of Torre Abbey (St. Martin's Press), as well as Who Killed Blanche Dubois?, Who Killed Dorian Gray?, Who Killed Mona Lisa? (all with Berkely Prime Crime for the Claire Rawlings mystery series), and, under the pen name C.E. Lawrence, Silent Screams, Silent Victim, Silent Kills, and Silent Slaughter (a thriller series from Kensington Publishing). Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies from St. Martin’s Press, Doubleday, and the Mystery Writers of America. Her plays and musicals have been presented regionally and in New York City. She has taught at NYU, Duke University, the Royal Court Repertory Theatre, and the American Comedy Institute. Carole holds a BA from Duke University.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Fiction Writing
Mystery 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
Memoir Writing
Personal Essay Writing
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| Matthew Cody is the author of the middle grade novels Powerless and The Dead Gentleman (both Knopf), and he has published pieces in McSweeney’s and Opium Magazine. He has taught at Laguardia Community College. He holds a BFA from Webster University and an MFA in Theater from the University of Alabama.
Also Teaches: Children's Book Writing
Creative Writing 101
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| Shari Goldhagen is the author of the novel Family and Other Accidents (Random House). She has published fiction in Indiana Review, Prism International, Beacon Street Review, and Wascana Review, and she has published articles in theNational Enquirer, Complete Woman, teenStyle, Ohioana, and Restaurants and Institutions. She has taught at Ohio State University. She holds a BSJ from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from Ohio State University.
Also Teaches: Fiction Writing
Novel Writing
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| Pamela Harris has written for the Oxygen network and has created sitcoms for various production companies, including Howard Stern Productions. Most of her feature length screenplays have been optioned and one is currently being packaged. She has worked as a writer, editor and story editor for authors, publishers and production companies. She is also an award-winning visual artist and has shown her art all over the U.S. She holds a BFA. from the Hartford Art School.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
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| Pete Jensen
has developed original TV series for diverse production companies and he wrote the feature screenplay Derwin's Shadow, which won a development grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He wrote and directed the award-winning short film "Charlie Primitive," which screened at over twenty festivals across the U.S. and Europe. His prose has been published in such literary magazines as Swink. He holds an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from Columbia University.
Also Teaches: Dialogue Writing
Screenwriting
TV Writing
Write It Right!
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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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| Stacy Parker Le Melle is the author of the memoir Government Girl (HarperCollins) and compiler of The Katrina Experience, an oral history project. She has published essays in Salon and is a contributor to McSweeney's Voice of Witness: Hurricane Katrina, and she is a blogger for the Huffington Post. She has taught with the Creative Writing Mentors Program, the Houston Writers in Schools, and InsideOut, where she served as program director. She holds a BA from George Washington University.
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| Michael Leviton is the author of the forthcoming children's picture book My First Ghost (Hyperion). He has published numerous illustrated paperbacks for Scholastic's READ 180 Literacy Program, and has worked as a celebrity picture book ghostwriter at HarperCollins, and as a screenwriter at RKO Pictures. He guest-lectures at the Parsons Pre-College Academy. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University.
Also Teaches: Children's Book Writing
Creative Writing 101
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| Jim Mendrinos wrote, directed and starred in the web series Living in Exile (New Media Comedy), and he is the creator of the sitcoms MAX, King's Castle, The Yuk Hut (optioned by f/x, WB, Fox), and creator/writer for Comedy USA TV (developed by Sony Pictures). He has written numerous screenplays and appears nationwide as a stand-up comic. He is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing (Alpha). He holds a BA from Baruch College.
Also Teaches: TV Writing
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| Sarah Norris is the arts editor for The Villager and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Village Voice, and TimeOutNY, among others. She holds a BFA from NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
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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: Memoir Writing
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Jane Ratcliffe is the author of the novel, The Free Fall (Henry Holt), and co-author of the nonfiction books One Can Make a Difference (Adams Media) and Totally Vegetarian (De Capo). She has written fiction and nonfiction for Guernica, New England Review, Tricycle, The Sun, Vogue, Interview, VH1, the Detroit News, and is included in the anthology Lost and Found: Stories From New York. She has taught at the New School, Rutgers,and Washtenaw Community College. She holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
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| Brandi Reissenweber has published fiction in North Dakota Quarterly, Aspects, and Rattapallax, and she authored the chapter on Character in Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury USA), part of GWW's series of writing guides. She served as an assistant editor with Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story and as an editor at Washington Square. She has taught at NYU, St. John's University, Borough of Manhattan Community College, SafeSpace, New York Hospital, and Il Chiostro in Italy. She holds a BA from Purdue University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from NYU.
Also Teaches: Reading Fiction
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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.
Also Teaches: Memoir Writing
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| Beth Schwartzapfel has written articles for The New York Times, the American Prospect, the Nation, and Ms. And has served as a fact-checker for Esquire. She has taught at Brooklyn College and La Guardia Community College. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Nonfiction 101
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| Maya Sloan is the author of the novel High Before Homeroom (Simon & Schuster) and ghostwriter of the memoir Redefining Diva (Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing). She has published fiction in Boulevard, Passages North, and Driftwood. She has taught at Boston University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Massachusetts. She holds a BFA from Boston University and MFAs in Creative Writing from Boston University and the University of Arkansas.
Also Teaches: Fiction Writing
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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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| Emily Taylor has published fiction in Inkwell, Crate, Baltimore Review, Green Mountains Review, Lost, and Hobart, and she served as the prose editor for LIT. She holds a BA from Colgate and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.
Also Teaches: Creative Writing 101
Fiction Writing
Reading Fiction
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