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.
Z Kennedy-Lopez

Faculty Profile

Meet Z Kennedy-Lopez

Z Kennedy Lopez sits against a hazy zoom background, reflecting on their short story Solomon’s Knot. “I was ranch-sitting for a former professor when that piece got published, and when she read it she was like, ‘It's really all about the cat, even from the beginning,’ and I was like ‘Yeah, I don't know I would’ve put it that way but you’re right, it really was all building towards the cat.’”

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Omari Chancellor

Faculty Profile

Meet Omari Chancellor

Gotham Teacher Omari Chancellor is living proof that the writing bug can bite you at any time.


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The teacher was one of the great teachers of my life (including my Yale professors!).

Dolly Reynolds, lawyer

Faculty Excerpts

The Moon, Her Crown

The Moon, Her Crown

Christine Meade
This is an excerpt from Christine Meade's recently released novel.***I stacked the deck of tarot cards between us on the small reading table in Martinique’s Mystics. The girl sitting across from me looked scared. Late-twenties with greasy black hair and...
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Night and Its Longings

Night and Its Longings

Philip Cioffari
These are the opening pages of Philip Cioggari's new novel, Night and Its Longings, a tale of desire, adultery and crime.***PROLOGUENew York City, 3 a.m.July, 1995This is the Nite Hawk, coming to you from the far end of your radio...
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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,...