We Considered the Lesson Over
Billy Howell's work has appeared in The Florida Review, Lumina, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere.
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Joshua Wetjen
- May 8
- 1 min
Question
Joshua Wetjen is a high school English teacher living in Minneapolis and working in St. Paul.
Karis Lee
- Apr 29
- 2 min
First Year Teacher
Karis Lee is a middle-school-teacher. She lives and writes in Washington D.C.
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum
- Apr 10
- 2 min
On the First Day of School After a Student is Killed in a Car Accident
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum is a writer and teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. She currently serves as CEO of Red Sweater Press.
Kristin Van Tassel
- Mar 27
- 4 min
Campus Internet Help: Automated Reply
Kristin Van Tassel lives and teaches in rural Central Kansas. She writes essays and poetry about place, travel, and teaching.
Ashley Mezzano
- Mar 13
- 5 min
Hidden In the Classroom
In her youth, Ashley Mezzano would scrawl poems in her notebook and secretly wish her teacher would read them.
Abby Manzella
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Routine Knowledge
Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements.
Charlotte Cosgrove
- Feb 13
- 1 min
First Day Of Class
Charlotte Cosgrove is a Poet and English Lecturer from Liverpool, England. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.
Jon Davis
- Jan 30
- 3 min
LETTER TO HUGO FROM SANTA FE
Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and more.
Cassandra Whitaker
- Jan 16
- 2 min
When It Rains Indoors
Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review and more.
Juliana Gray
- Jan 2
- 1 min
After Begging My Students, for the 87th Time, to Go Beyond Physical Description in Their Love Poems
Juliana Gray’s most recent poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017).
Carrie Esposito
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
The Children Left Behind
Carrie Esposito’s short stories have been published in The Georgia Review, Ruminate Magazine, Monkey Bicycle, The MacGuffin, and more.
Katie Burgess
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
LMAO
Katie Burgess lives near a mayonnaise factory in South Carolina. Her work can be found in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more.
Thea Swanson
- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
Teacher
Thea Swanson is a feminist atheist who holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Oregon.
Liz Ahl
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
At the University Hockey Game
Liz Ahl is the author of the poetry collections A Case for Solace and Beating the Bounds.
Jessie Lovett Allen
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
First Day at the Community College
Jessie Lovett Allen is originally from western New York and currently teaches English at North Platte Community College in western Nebraska.
Larry Narron
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
Yearbook
Larry Narron is a poet and teacher from Southern California. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Phoebe, Bayou, Hobart, and more.
Diana Mullins
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Student Environmental Learning Facility
Diana Mullins is an author and editor who taught writing and theater arts in Maine and California.
Matt McGuirk
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
Can’t we just Read SparkNotes?
Matt McGuirk teaches and lives with his family in New Hampshire. BOTN 2021 nominee and regular contributor for Fevers of the Mind and more.
Brian McVety
- Aug 22, 2022
- 7 min
About Your Lesson Plans
Brian McVety is a teacher who lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts with his wife and three daughters.
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