All Sackett Street instructors are professional writers, teachers and editors, who have taught at major universities and have earned MFA degrees at the most prestigious graduate writing programs in the country. More importantly, they are the most dedicated writing instructors in New York City because teaching the craft of writing is their passion.

The Sacket Street Writers’ Workshop Faculty are:

JULIA FIERRO
CAELI WOLFSON WIDGER
ANNA SOLOMON
NANCY RAWLINSON
KATE HILL CANTRILL
HEATHER AIMEE O’NEILL
ARIA SLOSS
TAYLOR LARSEN
ERIC ROSENBLUM

JULIA FIERRO, Workshop Director and Instructotr of Novel-Writing and the Post-MFA Fiction-Writing Workshop, is a graduate of The Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and worked with Marilynne Robinson, Frank Conroy, Ethan Canin, Chris Offutt, Lan Samantha Chang and Francine Prose. She founded The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop in 2002. She has taught Creative Writing in the Honors Program at Hofstra University and Fiction-Writing at the University of Iowa. Julia recently contributed to Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (Random House), edited by Bret Anthony Johnston.
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CAELI WOLFSON WIDGER, Assistant Director and Instructor of Intermediate and Advanced Fiction-Writing, graduated from Wellesley College and received her MFA from the University of Montana's Creative Writing Program. She was selected as one of two Summer Teaching Fellows at the University of Montana where she taught creative writing and literature. She was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center in 2001 and has attended the Napa Valley and Yellow Bay Writer's Conferences. Caeli, a published poet, recently had a short story published in the Madison Review.
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ANNA SOLOMON, Instructor of Advanced Fiction-Writing, was a Teaching-Writing Fellow at The Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she taught Fiction Writing and studied with Elizabeth McCracken, Marilynne Robinson, Chris Offutt and Ethan Canin. Her work has been published in One Story, The Georgia Review, and Shenandoah, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as a future edition of Best New American Voices. In 2005, she was awarded a scholarship to the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, and in 2007, she'll be a resident at Yaddo. Before Iowa, Anna worked as a reporter and producer at NPR's Living On Earth, where her feature stories won several awards.
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NANCY RAWLINSON, instructor of Fiction I, Nonfiction and MFA Application Prep workshops, received her MFA from Columbia University in 2003. Her work has been published in a wide variety of publications, including The Guardian, Time Out, Mosaic Literary Magazine and Madison magazine. Nancy has been awarded a residency at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and a fellowship from The Ragdale Foundation. She is a certified creative coach and a senior editor at Guernica: A Magazine of Politics and Art. She also works as a freelance editor of fiction and nonfiction for various publishing houses and agents.
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KATE HILL CANTRILL, Instructor of Fiction and Novel Writing, received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary publications including: StoryQuarterly, The Believer, Quick Fiction, Pindeldyboz, Mississippi Review, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Swink, and others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded residencies at both Jentel and the Corporation of Yaddo. Kate has taught at both the University of the Arts and the University of Texas in Austin, where she also ran the Utter Reading Series.
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HEATHER AIMEE O’NEILL, Instructor of Fiction-Writing, teaches literature and creative writing at CUNY Hunter College and is the former co-director of one of New York's most prominent reading series The Speakeasy Reading Series. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004 where she studied with Peter Cameron, Valerie Martin and Joshua Henkin. Her work has been published in several literary journals, including Spinning Jenny, Bostonia, Portland Review, Contemporary Verse 2 and Many Mountains Moving. A freelance writer for various publications, she writes the monthly book column Across the Page for AfterEllen.com.
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ARIA SLOSS, Instructor of Fiction Writing, received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied with Lan Samantha Chang, Ethan Canin, Marilynne Robinson, and Charles D'Ambrosio. She has been awarded an Iowa Arts Fellowship and a Vermont Studio Fellowship, and was the recipient of the James Veech Prize for Fiction at Yale University. Aria won the 2008 Glimmer Train Press Short Story Award and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has an upcoming publication in the Harvard Review She works as an Editorial Assistant at Harvard University Press.
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TAYLOR LARSEN, Instructor of Fiction Writing, is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA Program in Fiction Writing where she worked with David Plante, Jaime Manrique, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Nathan Englander, Mark O'Donnell, and Jonathan Dee. She has also studied at Yale University with Tom Perrotta and the Breadloaf Writers Conference with Julia Alvarez. Taylor was nominated by Jaime Manrique to read her novel in the Columbia University Faculty Selects Reading Series at KGB Bar. Taylor is both a short story writer and a novelist. She currently teaches writing and literature courses at BMCC in Manhattan and at Pace University.
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ERIC ROSENBLUM, Instructor of Fiction-Writing, has published fiction and non-fiction in Guernica Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader. He has taught writing and literature at the Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and Yeshiva University. Eric has studied fiction writing with George Saunders, Mary Gaitskill, and Brian Evenson. He holds a BA in English from Ohio University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Syracuse University.
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