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.
Kashawn Taylor

Faculty Profile

Meet Kashawn Taylor

“Write truthfully and don't shy away from brutal vulnerability.”

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Jon Gingerich

Faculty Profile

Meet Jon Gingerich

“It's like Toni Morrison said: once you have the right voice, you can't have the wrong words.”

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The teacher was passionate about her subject and that rubbed off.

Kyle Sanna, musician

Faculty Excerpts

Where Lost Girls Go

Where Lost Girls Go

Kody Keplinger
The following is an excerpt from the prologue of Kody Keplinger's novel, Where Lost Girls Go.***The new girl, with her too- large, too- round, too- green eyes, looks right at me. And maybe it’s just a draft of cold air...
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Worse than Strangers

Worse than Strangers

Kyleigh Leddy
The following is an excerpt from the prologue of Kyleigh Leddy's novel, Worse than Strangers. ***LottieOctober 11, 1998—Nantucket IslandRegret isn’t passive. It’s not something you can stuff away, suppress deeper and deeper. The less you tend to it, the more...
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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...