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.
Christine Meade

Faculty Profile

Meet Christine Meade

“I’m just someone who’s big on community,” says Gotham teacher Christine Meade.

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Esther Hayes

Faculty Profile

Meet Esther Hayes

“Writing a novel is like you’re given a jigsaw puzzle,” Esther says, “and you don’t know the image, but you know it’s vaguely about the beach, and you are expected to do the puzzle while holding all the pieces in your hand at the same time.”

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The teaching is some of the very best I have ever experienced. Far superior to much of what was given to me in graduate school or seminary. The teacher is gifted, gracious, patient, perceptive, and makes the craft accessible and doable.

Thomas Farrington, writer

Faculty Excerpts

<em>Raven, Rising</em>

Raven, Rising

Christine Hartman Derr
The following is an excerpt from Christine Hartman Derr's middle grade novel, Raven, Rising.***No Going BackWe didn’t set out to become the witches of Bear Creek Falls. They molded us into them with every whisper, paper threats slicing away until...
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<em>This Is Why They Hate Us</em>

This Is Why They Hate Us

Aaron H. Aceves
The following is an excerpt from Aaron H. Aceves' YA novel, This Is Why They Hate Us***My thumb hovers over the exit button on the remote, poised to strike as soon as I hear the jingling of keys that means...
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Faculty Articles

Teresa Wong

Why Write Your Family’s Story?

Teresa Wong
For much of my childhood in the 1980s, my mother served up Chinese fast food from a stand in a second-rate suburban mall. Her customers were mostly teens from the local high school and elderly regulars who mall-walked throughout winter,...
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...