Classes & Workshops

In late February and early March 2010 I will teach a 16-hour section, titled "The Writing Life," in Artist Trust's Literary EDGE professional development program. I am honored to co-teach this six-week program for Washington State writers with Karen Allman, Angela Jane Fountas, Michelle Goodman, and Mark Wittow.

I am taking a break from other teaching until Summer 2010, while I serve as Writer in Residence at the New College of Florida, the state's public honors college, and teach two creative writing classes there: "Making Life Into Art: An Introduction to Autobiographical Writing" and "It's Not About You: Advanced Literary Nonfiction."

I can tailor a class for a particular organization or writers' group, in English or Spanish.

See examples of other classes I have taught recently.

Read about my teaching philosophy.

In Spring 2009 I taught "Publishing Procedures" at Pacific Lutheran University, for students in the Publishing and Printing Arts Program. They produced excellent marketing campaigns for recently released books by local authors. Read more at the student blogs for:
Amazing Adventures of Working Girl,
Coffeehouse Angel,
House of Hope and Fear, &
Motion of the Ocean.

Photo above: Salvador García
looks at the forest canopy, Petén, Guatemala, 2002.
Photo below: Juana García's sons play in the river, Chimalapas,
Mexico, 2001.