Our faculty includes experienced writers and editors, each with a strong background in publishing and a passion for teaching. Many have published work in respected literary journals, written books, and worked in editorial roles. They are dedicated to guiding writers of all levels as they develop their skills and pursue their creative goals.
Sybil Baker is the author of five works of fiction, including Apparitions (2024 IPPY Gold winner), and of the essay collection, Immigration Essays. Recent work has appeared in Panorama, The Critical Flame, Drunken Boat, and The Compressed Journal for the Arts. A UC Foundation Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Director of the Meacham Writers' Workshop, Sybil received a 2017 Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Kate Bolick is an author, journalist, and lecturer in the English Department at Yale University. Her first book, the best-selling Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and translated into multiple languages. Her journalism and criticism appear in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and Vogue, among other publications.
Mary Collins has written award-winning nonfiction books on America's sedentary culture, the Wright brothers, National Public Radio, a memoir co-authored with her transgender son. She’s written for Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, the Times, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book that involves having conversations with her dead relatives (because it's so hard to speak to the living). This is her eighth year (or ninth, if you count COVID) teaching at Yale.
Trey Ellis is an American Book Award Winning novelist, two-time Emmy and Peabody winning filmmaker, NAACP Image award winning playwright, essayist and Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is the author of Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood, Home Repairs and Right Here, Right Now. His acclaimed first novel, Platitudes, was reissued by Northeastern University Press along with his influential essay, “The New Black Aesthetic.”
Derek Green is the author of the books New World Order and Jackson State. As a screenwriter, he has worked for Warner Bros Studios and Carousel Productions, and has co-created, written, and presented television projects at major studios including HBO, AMC, Sony Productions, and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Derek teaches at Yale, where he currently serves as director of the creative writing program.
Lisa Page is co-editor of We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America, (Beacon Press). Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Crisis, Playbill, Virginia Quarterly Review, Playboy, The Washington Post Book World, American Fiction and other publications. She is assistant professor of English at George Washington University and Director of Creative Writing. She previously served as Interim Director of Africa Studies. She lives with her family outside Washington, DC.
Adam Sexton is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director in the English Department at Yale, where he teaches The Craft of Fiction and the Creative Writing Concentration Senior Project. His books include Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats, as well as the forthcoming Hang Us in the Louvre: How Pop Music Became Art. He has taught writing at Columbia, NYU, and the New School.
Sergio Troncoso is most recently the author of Nobody’s Pilgrims. He also wrote A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son, which Luis Alberto Urrea called "a world-class collection" and Junot Díaz hailed as “a masterwork.” Troncoso edited Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds, which received a starred review from Kirkus. A past president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Troncoso was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.
Lecture Date: Friday, June 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
A native Parisian, she got her start in NYC publishing by joining The Joy Harris Literary Agency in 1999. She is primarily interested in character-driven fiction, memoirs, and YA. Authors with whom she has worked include New York Times bestsellers, as well as winners of the Lambda Literary Award, the Ribalow Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Awards among others.
Lecture Date: Friday, June 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
Sophie Cudd is a literary agent at The Book Group, where she represents a variety of adult fiction and nonfiction, including New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. Sophie has a degree in English Literature from Southern Methodist University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She splits her time between her hometown, Nashville, and New York City.
Lecture Date: Friday, June 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
Mark Gottlieb is a vice president and literary agent working at book publishing’s leading literary agency Trident Media Group in New York City. Mark has represented NYT bestselling authors as well as major award-winning authors. He has optioned and sold numerous books. Mark Gottlieb enjoys working with authors to help manage and grow their careers with the resources available at Trident. Utilizing his drive and intuition for discovering talented writers, he is currently expanding his client list of authors.
Lecture Date: Sunday, June 1, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
Christopher Madden is an author, educator, and editor who has published poet laureates, emerging writers, and New York Times bestselling authors. He is a founding partner of Connecticut’s Woodhall Press, where he serves as the executive editor. Madden teaches at Fairfield University and publishing in the Fairfield MFA. Woodhall Press is passionate about literature in the Nutmeg State and publishes the annual Connecticut Literary Anthology, the Yale Writer’s Conference Book Prize, and the Fairfield University Book Prize.
Lecture Date: Friday, June 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
Michael Mungiello represents a range of non-fiction and literary fiction. His clients' work may be found in the Paris Review, n+1, Bookforum, and The Baffler, among other places; they have been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award, named New York Times Editors' Choice, and selected as Best Books of the Year by NPR and Bloomberg. He is from New Jersey.
Lecture Date: Monday, June 2, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
Chandra Prasad is the author of the YA novels Damselfly, a Scholastic text taught widely in schools, and Mercury Boys, a Connecticut Book Award finalist. Her general fiction titles include On Borrowed Wings, Death of a Circus, and Breathe the Sky. Prasad helmed the acclaimed W.W. Norton anthology Mixed, which focuses on the multiracial experience. Prasad, a Morse Fellow at Yale University, is putting the finishing touches on a novel about artificial intelligence, identity, and environmental ethics.
Lecture Date: Sunday, June 1, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
Hirsh Sawhney is the author of a novel, South Haven, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and nominated for the DSC Prize. He is also the editor of an acclaimed anthology of original fiction, Delhi Noir. His writing has appeared in The TLS, The Guardian, Harvard Review, The New York Times Book Review, and numerous other periodicals. He lives in New Haven, CT.
Lecture Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
Dani Shapiro is the author of eleven books, and the creator of the podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent novel, Signal Fires, was named a best book of 2022. Her most recent memoir, Inheritance, was an instant New York Times Bestseller. She’s currently developing Signal Fires for its television adaptation. Dani’s craft book, Still Writing, has just been reissued. She is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy.