
Jotham Burrello
Jotham Burrello is the director of the Yale Writers’ Workshop. His novel, Spindle City was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award. He is the founder of the Connecticut Literary Festival and curator of the Lit Talks! Series. He’s the publisher of the award-winning Elephant Rock Books, and teaches writing at Central Connecticut State University. He’s written and produced multimedia on the craft of writing, and edited The Craft, essays on writing from the YWW faculty. With Janet Burroway, he produced the instructional DVD, So, Is It Done? Navigating the Revision Process. His writing has appeared in literary journals, The Hartford Courant, the Christian Science Monitor, and he’s a proud winner of the New Yorker Caption Contest. When away from his desk, Jotham raises boys and flowers on Muddy Feet Flower farm, the Nutmeg state’s premier cut flower farm.