Yale Young Writers' Workshop Faculty

Sarah Darer Littman is the award-winning author of 20 middle grade and young adult novels. INFLUENCED, her first ever co-written novel, comes out from Scholastic Press in August 2025. As well as writing novels, Sarah teaches in the MFA program at Western CT State University, and at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. She is also an award-winning opinion columnist.

Anne Thalheimer is an artist and educator whose work in visual culture, autobio comix, and independent publishing spans three decades. Her work (both academic and graphic) has appeared in numerous collections, including the MLA’s Teaching The Graphic Novel; she is a long-term reviewer for Xerography Debt and a former contributor to both Fleen and PopMatters. Mostly she likes drawing monsters, cats, and cute food. Anne holds a PhD in English from the University of Delaware.

Emily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not which Publishers Weekly called a “fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut.” Her second book, Tantrums in Air, is due in 2025. Skillings’ recent poems can be found in Poetry, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books. She has received residencies and fellowships from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Skillings currently teaches creative writing at Yale, NYU, and Columbia. 

Nick Chhoeun is a poet and educator with an MFA from American University. His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, The Windward Review, Free State Review, and other publications. His recent chapbook “Learning How to Talk”, published by above/ground press, explores language through varying cultures and identities. Nick’s teaching focuses on belonging and fostering experimental approaches to craft. He is currently working on a poetry collection that blends forms in music and painting with poetry.