Alexander Weinstein

Director / Fiction Instructor (Week One & Two)

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Alexander Weinstein is the founder and Director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collections Children of the New World, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by NPR and Electric Literature, and Universal Love. His fiction has appeared in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Best American Experimental Writing. His short story, "Saying Goodbye to Yang," was adapted as the film After Yang by A24 Films, and was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and Barack Obama's Best Films of 2022.

Samantha Tetangco

Poetry (Week One)

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Samantha Tetangco is a Filipino-American writer and teacher. Her poetry collection, Hope You Blend In: Studies of Color & Light, was a finalist for the 2023 National Poetry Series, and is forthcoming with Broadstone Books.  A multi-genre writer, her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, most notably, The Sun, Tri-Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Zone 3, Gertrude, Foglifter, and Cimarron Review, among others.  Sam has served as editor-in-chief for Blue Mesa Review, president of the AWP LGBTQ Writer's Caucus, and is currently the co-director of Plume: A Writer's Companion, in which she also appears as a co-hosts Plume: A Writer's Podcast.  She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and is an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of California Merced.

Samrat Upadhyay

Fiction Instructor (Week One)

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Samrat Upadhyay is the author of six books of fiction, including Arresting God in Kathmandu and Buddha’s Orphans. His award-winning books, which have been translated internationally, have received praise from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. His forthcoming novel, Darkmotherland, is an epic tale of love and betrayal and political violence set in an earthquake-ravaged country that is at once familiar and dystopian. He is a Distinguished Professor of English and Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University, where he teaches creative writing.

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Hannah Bae

Creative Nonfiction Instructor (Week One)

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Hannah Bae is a Korean American freelance journalist, nonfiction writer and illustrator who is at work on a memoir about what it takes to build a beautiful adult life after healing from childhood trauma. She is a 2024 grantee of the New York State Council on the Arts, a 2021 and 2022 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, and the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. You can find her work in anthologies such as Our Red Book (Simon & Schuster) and (Don’t) Call Me Crazy (Algonquin) and online at Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins, Catapult, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and other outlets. 

 

Christopher Citro

Poetry, Publishing & Creative Nonfiction Instructor (Week One & Two)

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Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (elixir press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, and writing awards from Columbia Journal (poetry) and The Florida Review (creative nonfiction). 

 

Christopher's writing appears in anthologies such as the Best New Poets, New Poetry from the Midwest, and Best Microfictions 2020. His poetry appears in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. 

 

Christopher has taught at the University of Kansas, Indiana University, SUNY Oswego, and the Downtown Writers Center. He is an Editorial Assistant for the Seneca Review and lives and teaches in sunny Syracuse, New York.

 

Phong Nguyen

Fiction (Week Two)

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Phong Nguyen is a writer of historical fiction (Bronze Drum), experimental fiction (Roundabout: an Improvisational Fiction), spinoffs (The Adventures of Joe Harper), alternate history (Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History), dirty realism (Memory Sickness), and more. His most recent book, Bronze Drum, was an NPR Best Book of the Year and a Book of the Month Club selection. He has edited volumes including Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master and Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology. He serves as the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri.

 

Sarah Nguyen

Bookbinding (Week Two)

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Sarah Nguyen is a mixed media artist, working primarily with paper. Storytelling is central to her hand cut-fiber panels and paintings. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions and publications. Her work has been part of exhibitions in museums and festivals including (but not limited to) Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of Asian Pacific Experience, the Daum Museum, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Grounds and Museum, the Truman Museum, Cheekwood Estates & Gardens, and Kansas City’s 2018 Open Spaces. She has taken part in a number of artist residencies from around the world as a visiting artist and teacher including Serbia, Bulgaria, Japan, and France, as well as the United States. Sarah works as the Book Designer for Pleiades Press and Magazine and as Freelance Illustrator where you can find her work on book covers and children’s books. She is currently the Art Installations Curator for the True/False Film Fest. Sarah received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

 

Su Cho

Poetry (Week Two)

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Su Cho is a poet, essayist, and the author of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Books 2022) which won the 2021 National Poetry Series and featured in NPR, New York Times Books, and Roxane Gay’s favorite books of 2022. She has served as the editor-in-chief of Indiana Review, Cream City Review, and most recently served as guest editor for Poetry magazine. Her work has been featured in Poetry, Gulf Coast, and New England Review; the 2021 Best American and Best New Poets anthologies; and elsewhere. A finalist for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowship, a recipient of a National Society of Arts and Letters Award, and a two-time Pushcart nominee, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Clemson University.

 

Anthony Correale

Fiction (Week Two)

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Anthony Correale is a fiction writer from California who teaches at Clemson University. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has served as the Fiction Editor and Nonfiction Editor at both Indiana Review and Cream City Review. His short stories have appeared in places like Day One, The Journal, and Redivider.