Coach
Brendan Shea is an educator and writer from Hyattsville, Maryland. Brendan loves folklore and the idea of hiking.
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Kelsey Francis
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Don’t Worry, This Won’t Last All Year
Kelsey Francis is a teacher living and writing in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
Rosalind Goldsmith
- Mar 14, 2022
- 10 min
NORMAN FISH
Rosalind Goldsmith lives in Toronto and has recently retired from teaching literacy in an adult education program.
Holly Stimson
- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
We’re Still in a Global Pandemic
Holly is a high school English teacher who is also a real human inside and outside the classroom.
Karen Zey
- Feb 14, 2022
- 7 min
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (How Teaching Gets in Your Blood)
Retired from the Quebec public school system, Karen Zey now devotes her time to writing and leading memoir workshops in her community.
Porcupine Literary
- Jan 31, 2022
- 7 min
Volcano Lover
Diane Augustine has been teaching for 25 years in both private and public schools.
Linda K. Miller
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Teaching The Unreachable
Linda has two books of poetry. Her first was called Coming to be. Her second is available on Amazon: Poems to Amuse, Bemuse, and Entertain.
Anna B. Moore
- Jan 3, 2022
- 9 min
Teaching Duncan, 2009
For the last two decades, Anna B. Moore has been publishing creative nonfiction, essays, and short fiction in a variety of literary journals
Sarah Pazur
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Mr. Martinelli’s Last Chalkboard Letter to the Class
Sarah Pazur has been a teacher, curriculum director and principal. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership.
Mitchell Nobis
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Somewhere
Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 teacher in Metro Detroit. His fiction has appeared in Flyover Country and Rejection Letters.
Heather Bartos
- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
Pink Umbrella
Heather Bartos lives near Portland, Oregon, and writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Jennifer Novotney
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching the Female Narrative
Jennifer Novotney’s work appears in Buddhist Poetry Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, and The Vignette Review.
Holly Pelesky
- Oct 25, 2021
- 4 min
Bilocation
Holly Pelesky writes essays, fiction and poetry. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska.
Dana Kinsey
- Oct 11, 2021
- 1 min
Brit Lit in Spring
Dana Kinsey is a writer, actor, and teacher with poetry published or forthcoming in Writers Resist, One Art, Broadkill Review, and more.
Christopher D. DiCicco
- Sep 27, 2021
- 8 min
Teaching Creative Writing When Hungry: A Lyric Essay on Learning
Christopher D. DiCicco is the author of So My Mother, She Lives in the
Clouds and other stories (Hypertrophic Press).
Amy Watkins
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
A Small, Safe Room
Amy Watkins is the author of the poetry chapbooks Milk & Water, Lucky and Wolf Daughter.
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