Write With Me
There’s not much I love more than gathering a few people around a table to write together.
In my former life as a professional dancer and yoga teacher, I taught yoga in crumbling Manhattan studios, in high-rises along 5th Avenue, and in elementary school libraries. Since getting my MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia in 2012, I’ve taught writing to six year olds and 86 year olds and everyone in between.
These days I teach creative writing to medical students and Narrative Medicine graduate students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
I also offer classes for women from my dining room table, living room, and on Zoom.
Open-level Creative Writing
So you want to write, but you’re not sure where to begin. These classes are for you.
In these writing groups for women, we engage in some close reading — usually a poem or essay — and use it as a jumping off point for our own personal writing. Write about a place you once traveled to, a cake someone baked for you, an object you brought home from a trip. We then read the work aloud, bear witness to what’s been shared, and offer kind, constructive feedback. These workshops are small, intimate spaces for you to take risks with your writing and for us to read deeply together.
I see these classes as both self-care and collective care, which is especially vital in these isolating times: the deep listening of others' work is just as vital as the attention you pay to your own. I believe that through our time together everyone's writing can become more of what it needs and wants to be, and that each writer can find her voice. I always create an environment of safe risk, and I’d be delighted to play (yes, play!) together.
Writing Workshop
This is a class for students who want to deepen their relationship to writing and to the essay form. Here we delve into issues of craft, voice and structure, and I run this class like an MFA workshop: writers submit work ahead of time and everyone comes to the table ready for a deep discussion about the pieces on hand. What is working? What’s moving me and why? What’s making me laugh or cry or sigh in recognition? And where might this piece grow stronger? At least one round in the Open-level class is required. This class is limited to 6 students.
Writing Workshop
WINTER/SPRING 2025: FULL
Thursday mornings, 11am-1pm PST
Writing Retreats
I teach a yearly retreat in October at my home in Los Angeles. For more information, join the waitlist below.
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If you'd like to be put on the waiting list for future classes, please contact me here.