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.
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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Margaret Meacham

Faculty Profile

Meet Margaret Meacham

When Margaret isn’t teaching or writing, she makes it her mission to go outside as much as possible, partaking in such activities as swimming, skiing, and hiking. She also enjoys spending time with her five grandchildren and letting them inspire new stories for her to write.

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The instructor was a smart, thoughtful, caring editor; deeply knowledgeable about world literature; a champion for his students; and a beautiful writer himself.

David Allyn, CEO, nonprofit

Faculty Excerpts

They Are Cursed Like You (Trailer Park Witches Book 1)

They Are Cursed Like You (Trailer Park Witches Book 1)

Holley Cornetto
An excerpt from Holley Cornetto's novel They Are Cursed Like You (the first installment in the Trailer Park Witches series)***PrologueFour RabbitsWhen they ran Belladonna Mason out, it was literal. They chased her into the woods wearing nothing but the shift...
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A Season in Delhi

A Season in Delhi

Scott Alexander Hess

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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,...