Brady is the founder of the Gilliam Writers Group. He is currently pursuing a Master’s of Education at Columbia University.

Learn more about Brady’s background and approach here. You can find his essays on educational philosophy and schooling at Pedagogy of the Distressed.

Becca Canny has recently rejoined the Gilliam Writers Group as the company’s Principal Administrator. Becca has worked in business administration for over 23 years, and now runs her own company offering online business management to clients around the world. Becca's career expertise encompasses project management, marketing, systems management, and automation, and she has supported teams and individuals across various industries. 

At the Gilliam Writers Group, Becca thoroughly enjoys her role as a connector of great minds, using her business experience to further the company’s mission of developing strong writers and lifetime lovers of the craft. Her approach ensures that GWG excels in both administrative efficiency and its core aims in literature and education.

David O’Neill is a writing coach, editor, and author specializing in nonfiction, art writing, and cultural criticism. He was an editor at Bookforum magazine for fourteen years, working with Jesse Barron, Melissa Febos, Molly Fischer, Sheila Heti, Chris Kraus, Lauren Oyler, Charlotte Shane, Jeff Sharlet, Jennifer Wilson, Audrey Wollen, and many other well-known authors. He was an associate editor of Jason Moran’s Loop magazine and has over a decade of experience as a freelance editor of essays, art books, novels, book proposals, and pitches.

Paul Corning is a writer and editor in Brooklyn. His work has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Workshop and the St. Joseph's MFA, a PEN award nomination, and been shortlisted for the DISQUIET prize and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. He has served as editor of the Writer's Foundry Review and fiction reader for The Rumpus. His theatre work includes Sleep No More (Punchdrunk) and Romeo and Juliet (Lincoln Center Education). 

Julian Delacruz teaches English at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California. He earned his M.F.A in poetry at Arizona State University, where he was a June Jordan Teaching Fellow under Poetry for the People, a workshop focused on poetry as a medium for telling the truth and building beloved community. While deeply attentive to craft, he loves mentoring writers who want to embrace more reckless and frayed modes of questioning.

Matt Del Busto is a poet and teacher from Indiana. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers Program, where he was a 2022-23 Postgraduate Fellow in Creative Writing. At Michigan, he was a finalist for three Hopwood awards, including the 2022 Hopwood Theodore Roethke Prize, judged by John Murillo and Traci Brimhall. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, EcoTheo Review, and are forthcoming in Ninth Letter. Before Michigan, he studied at Butler University, then taught English at the Universidad de Málaga as a Fulbright grantee.

Emma Marie Duke is a writer and scholar based in Boston, MA. She recently completed an MPhil at Cambridge University, studying eighteenth-century English literature, Jane Austen, and the history of the book. She attended Cambridge as the King's-Yale scholar and graduated with distinction. During her undergrad at Yale Emma majored in English and concentrated in creative writing. She won several department writing prizes and completed senior projects in creative nonfiction with Verlyn Klinkenborg and Anne Fadiman. Emma also tutored fellow Yale students in both creative and academic writing. Her work in the Yale Writing Center inspired a love of mentorship that she is eager to share. Since then she has worked with many types of writers including high school students, college students, military veterans, and career journalists.

Liz is a writer and educator based in Brooklyn. Her book reviews and author interviews have been featured in Tin House online, LAMBDA Literary, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Full Stop, and more. She is a mentor for Girls Write Now, and has acted as a juror for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Liz holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University where she acted as the Columbia Journal's Online Fiction editor. Most recently, Liz was a participant in the 2022 Tin House YA workshop.

Liz has enjoyed working with a diverse range of students, from Columbia undergraduates writing fairy tales, to high schoolers applying to competitive college and graduate programs. Her clients have gained admission to top universities and institutions.

Mariana is a writer from Mexico City. Alongside media artist and programmer Qianxun Chen, Mariana co-authored the upcoming book Seedlings_: Walk in Time (Counterpath, 2023). Mariana graduated from Brown’s Literary Arts MFA, where their short stories received awards including the Feldman Prize and the Frances Mason Harris Prize. Their work has been published in collections and anthologies including Our Red Book (Simon & Schuster, 2022), Eleven Stories (The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize Shortlist Selection, 2022), and Los cuerpos que habitamos (An.alfa.beta, 2021). Mariana has over ten years of experience teaching and tutoring in both English and Spanish at a variety of levels.

Dayna is a Data Scientist; her love for writing has been a mainstay through her years in academia and in industry, and grew with her through her career explorations. During her undergraduate study at MIT, Dayna concentrated in Writing, with a special love of short stories and poetry. Her academic writing experience includes co-authorship of papers, including one in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and posters in the field of neuroscience.

Gina DeLuca earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and her B.A. in Education & Child Development from Smith College. She has read her essays at the Satire and Humor Festival in Chicago, Tuesday Funk, Tartle at the Duke (her monthly live lit show), and other events around town. The Chicago Reader called her work “brilliant,” and she was the featured artist in the 2020 winter arts issue. First Days, her most recent solo essay-reading show, sold out at the world renowned Steppenwolf Theater. You can find her writing in Slate, The Rumpus, Points in Case and other publications. Gina has been a comedian, artist and performer in Chicago for twelve years. She has taught college level creative writing classes and was a freelance writing coach before joining Gilliam Writers Group in 2021.

Misha is a third-year English Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago specializing in Black Atlantic speculative literature, Caribbean Studies, and enslaved resistance. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Chicago.

For the past two years, Misha has assisted student clients with developing their grammar, vocabulary, and essay writing skills. With her adult clients, she has proofread and edited non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and memoir projects; she has also collaborated with corporate and higher education professionals on email marketing campaigns and communications materials to help develop successful writing practices. Outside of this, Misha works as a digital marketer, social media manager, and content creator for nonprofits, developing email copy, website copy, graphic assets, and grant applications.

Tadeh is a second year MFA candidate for Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. His work has been published in The Ana and Transfer Magazine. In 2021 Tadeh recieved the Joe Brainard Fellowship award. He has led fiction workshops in Armenia and serves as fiction editor of the award-winning magazine Fourteen Hills.

Tailoring his approach to each client he works with, Tadeh provides a wide range of readings, techniques, and exercises to help inform their decision making process of writing. He believes in the importance of expanding and exercising imagination, addressing process issues, and developing a long-lasting writing practice.

Makina Moses is a writer, educator, and an experimental filmmaker. They are currently a PhD student in the English Department of the University of Chicago. She taught academic English for ESL speakers in Japan and, more recently, has transitioned into teaching literary theory. Now, Makina writes fiction, literary /cultural criticism, and theory.

Seth Strickland is a photographer and writer living in Ithaca, NY where he also serves as the Joseph F. Martino '53 Lecturer in Undergraduate Teaching at Cornell University. He finished a PhD on book construction, medieval allegory, and questions of source integration in poetic compositions. He enjoys thinking about the relationship of writing to its material - how writing by hand, typewriting, or digital word processing and the writing environment changes the way we create.

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and cultural critic who frequently contributes to 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, the New Yorker (Goings On), and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als's Andy Warhol: The Series. She was an art columnist for the Village Voice from 2014 to 2018, and served as both senior editor at Artforum and later as the magazine’s digital editorial director, launching their video series “Artists On Writers,” and “Under the Cover.” She was on faculty in the MA Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts (2013–2021), and has taught at Art Center College of Design, New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a Rauschenberg residency (forthcoming), and is a 2023–24 MacDowell fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Drawing on her background in theatre development, Sophie promotes experimentation and play in the writing process without sacrificing clarity or professionalism. 

She's a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study (BA) and worked as Associate Editor for Dramatists Play Service, where she edited hundreds of plays for publication, including those of Tony Award–winning playwrights. She is also a writer for the magazine SupplyChainBrain, in addition to her ongoing creative work.

Emma Horwitz is a writer and educator from New York City, whose work in theater has recently been supported by Clubbed Thumb (2022-2023 Early Career Writers Group), The Playwrights Realm (2021-2022 Writing Fellow), and New Georges (2022 Audrey Residency with Bailey Williams). She has also worked with theaters like the Williamstown Theater Festival (Playwright-in-Residence 2020), The Brick, The Flea, The Tank, Dixon Place, and Two Headed Rep (Reno & Moll), among others. Her fiction has been most recently published by Two Serious Ladies and Vo1. 1 Brooklyn. Emma has taught at Brown University, Mount Holyoke College, and currently in the Liberal Arts Studies department at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition, she is the College Assistant to the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College.

Donna Vatnick is a researcher, writer, and educator. She is an MFA candidate in nonfiction writing at Washington University in St. Louis and earned her Bachelor of Science from Brandeis University, where she began her career as a research enthusiast. Before calling herself a creative writer, Donna worked in molecular biology labs and coordinated clinical trials in Boston. Now, she writes essays that explore the art of science, the lives of scientists, and all the surprising ways relationships shape our world. 

Donna has years of experience editing dissertations, theses, and academic papers in the social and medical sciences. She has taught creative writing at the university level, designed curriculums and led workshops. Recently, she won the Newman Exploration Travel Grant to research her upcoming book about the human liver.

Derick is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa. Development includes La MaMa Umbria, November Theatre, Art Garage, Cherry Lane Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, and Rockford New Play Festival. University Awards: Lipkin Prize in Humanities, David Lindsay-Abaire Prize in Playwriting. Finalist: Campfire Theatre Festival, Rockford New Play Festival, Capital Repertory NEXT ACT New Play Summit; semi-finalist: The Playwrights Realm's Scratchpad Series, O'Neill National Playwriting Conference; long list: Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy. BA, Sarah Lawrence.

Annina is a writer from New York and Sichuan, currently based in the UK. She graduated with degrees in Political Science and Environmental Science, before working in the graduate department of China Foreign Affairs University teaching seminars in Translation and Interpretation as a Princeton in Asia fellow. She holds an MA in Multilingualism, Linguistics and Education from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she graduated with distinction. She has taught English and creative writing to people of all ages and in settings ranging from grade schools to temporary accomodation centres for asylum seekers.

Ryan is a writer, teacher, and editor based in Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, where he studied medieval literature and environmental history. Ryan is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in English at Penn State University, where he primarily teaches courses in rhetoric and composition. He has served as an editor for multiple academic journals, and his work has been published in Philological Quarterly and The Literary Encyclopedia. In addition to academic writing, Ryan has written plays, translations, musical compositions, and poetry.

Yasmin Adele Majeed is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and now teaches creative writing for undergraduates at the University of Iowa. Her fiction appears in American Short Fiction, the Asian American Literary Review, and Best Debut Short Stories 2022, and other writing can be found in Electric Literature and the New York Review of Books Daily. She is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, the Periplus Collective, and Kweli, and the winner of the 2023 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Prior to graduate school, she worked for five years as an editor for The Margins, a literary magazine published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, where she edited fiction, creative non-fiction, and reported pieces. 

Jill Spivey Caddell is an experienced researcher, teacher, and writer. Currently based in the Crozet/Charlottesville area of Virginia, she has held faculty positions at the University of Kent, American University, George Mason University, and Glenelg Country School and was a tutor at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Continuing Education. She is also a co-project director of Commemorative Cultures: The American Civil War Monuments Database, based at St. Andrews University.

In 2015, Jill received her Ph.D. in English at Cornell University, where her dissertation received the Guilford Prize for Highest Achievement in English Prose. Her scholarly work has appeared in New England Quarterly; the collection Literary Cultures of the American Civil War (University of Georgia Press, August 2016); J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists; and Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (University of Georgia Press, November 2019). Jill is also is a regular contributor of essays, interviews, and reviews to Apollo: The International Art Magazine and has written reviews and criticism for JSTOR Daily, Longreads, CNN Opinion, The Conversation, and The Rambling.

In addition to his work at the Gilliam Writers Group, Brent Cameron is currently a Professional Writing Specialist at the Purdue On-campus and Online Writing Lab (OWL). He received a bachelor’s in English from Pace University and a master’s in English Studies at East Carolina University (ECU). At ECU, he worked both as a Writing Center Consultant and an instructor of Record, teaching several sections of First-Year Writing and Writing in the Disciplines. Brent also worked as a teaching assistant in the Engineering Communications program at Virginia Tech, where he co-taught several undergraduate technical writing courses and tutored students on a one-to-one basis. Beyond having a passion for teaching writing (and writing in general), Brent’s interests include, philosophy, psychology, creative writing, Writing Across the Disciplines, cultural rhetoric’s, and 19th-century literature.

Chris is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Chicago, where he studies and teaches literary modernism, the history of the novel, critical theory, and intersections of art and philosophy. As a writing tutor trained in the University of Chicago Writing Program, Chris helps writers of all levels find depth, clarity, and intellectual excitement in their work—whether a school assignment, a journalistic essay, or a scholarly manuscript. His work has been published in nonsite.

Joshua Barnett is a writer from Little Rock, Arkansas, based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in fiction from Hunter College, under the guidance of writers including Peter Carey, Adam Haslett, and Sigrid Nunez. While at Hunter, Joshua taught Creative Writing and Composition, as well as working as a writing coach. As a Hertog Fellow, he worked as a personal research assistant for writer Rivka Galchen. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from Hendrix College, where he was a fiction editor for The Ionian literary magazine. Before this, he studied at the University of Arkansas, where he served on the board of the Volunteer Action Center’s Literacy Program, a nonprofit committed to promoting children’s literacy in Northwest Arkansas.

Michael Kaplan holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he taught undergraduate creative writing and English literature classes. His fiction appears in The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, and The Beloit Fiction Journal, while his essays can be found in The New England Review, Nature, and Kill Your Darlings. He is the recipient of the Iowa Writers’ Room Fellowship, and is currently developing a pair of feature screenplays. Before receiving his MFA, he worked for years as a video editor, his projects ranging from narrative short films and hard-hitting documentaries to lipstick commercials and Kevin Hart’s Instagram stories.

Eva Warrick is a fiction writer and artist based in Washington State and Amsterdam. She earned an MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers Program, and has worked with a variety of clients in professional and corporate capacities on projects including internal communications, reports, web content and skills refreshers. As an editor, she has broad genre experience, from literary fiction manuscripts to architecture, graphic novel, fantasy, and memoir. She enjoys working with writers and projects at all stages of development, and her coaching emphasizes creative permission, technical fluency, and knowing one’s audience.

Jonathan Zelinger is a writer, work-shopper, and gatherer of people. He is a former high school English teacher, essay retreat leader, and a strong advocate for letter writing. Currently, he works for StoryCorps as a writer and facilitator. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and writes essays, many of which can be found at jonathanzelinger.com. He is also the organizer for the Commonwealth Running Club, which meets at Grand Army Plaza at 6:30 PM every Monday.

Veronica is an experienced educator, writer, comics-artist, and horticulturist. She has worked with students of all ages, from first graders to Ph.D. candidates, and is passionate about helping her students communicate clearly and effectively through writing.

Veronica’s teaching experience began with AmeriCorps’ City Year program, where she served sixth graders in a low-income literacy classroom. Following this experience, Veronica continued to serve students often left behind in traditional educational settings. She taught both academic and creative writing with the Boys and Girls Club, the Writer’s Exchange, and Stratford Academy. In each of these roles, Veronica honed her skills for building strong relationships with students and teaching effectively.

Josh Boardman is from Michigan. A tutor specializing in elite New York City programs for over a decade, he is also the author of the chapbook Plantain (West Vine Press, 2018) and conducted the Latin translation project We, Romans (2015). His stories have appeared in journals such as New York Tyrant, Catapult, and Dandruff Magazine. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is working on his second novel and a collection of stories about his hometown.

Caroline Harper New is a writer and visual artist from southwestern Georgia. She received her BA in Anthropology from Davidson College and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she taught first-year composition and creative writing. Prior to this, she has taught English and creative writing in New Orleans, Madagascar, and Morocco. She is a recipient of the 2023-2024 Creative Careers Residency, as well as the Dzanc Press Writer-in-Residence in Ann Arbor, MI.

Heidi Katter is a writer and historian from the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a BA in History and completed her MPhil with distinction from the University of Cambridge. She studies the intersection of Indigenous histories, settler colonialism, environmental history, and cartography in the American West. Heidi refined her skills in research and writing with the support of fellowships and prizes during her undergraduate and graduate programs.

Sebastien Butler is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia. His work has been featured in The Michigan Daily, and is forthcoming from Southern Indiana Review and The Journal. He was the recipient of the 2021 Hopwood Award in Undergraduate Poetry from the University of Michigan, as well as the Paul and Sonia Handelman Award for Romantic Poetry. At UMich, he studied English, creative writing, and political science, completing a thesis in poetry under the acclaimed poet and memoirist Sarah Messer.

Zahid Rafiq is a writer from Kashmir. He recently finished his MFA at Cornell University and is at present a Visiting Fellow in the Humanities at Bard College. He is currently working on a collection of short stories. Before turning to fiction, Rafiq was a journalist for several years, writing for various international publications including The New York Times, Foreign Policy, BBC, Vice Magazine, Al Jazeera, TRTWorld, and others. He completed his BA at Kashmir University and studied journalism as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests include short fiction, novels, novellas, personal essays, memoirs, and narrative essays.

Ashleigh is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Chicago. There they research changing conceptions of the human and her relationship to the environments that construct her, and they do this via an interdisciplinary mix of media studies, artificial intelligence, black studies, and gothic horror. A native of New York, they hold a B.A. in Creative Writing and Studio Art from Hunter College, and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Center of CUNY.

Elie Piha is a writer and teacher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Elie graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English and from Cornell University with an MFA in Fiction. He won the 2016 David Nathan Meyerson Short Fiction Award from Southwest Review and came in third place in CRAFT Magazine's 2020 Fiction Contest. Elie's fiction can also be found or is forthcoming in War, Literature and the Arts and The Sun Magazine. You can find him at eliepiha.com. 

Julie Cadman-Kim is a writer and educator from the Pacific Northwest. She’s a graduate of Bennington College (BA), Pace University (MS), and the University of Michigan where she earned her MFA in 2022.

Julie has worked for many years with writers of all ages and backgrounds. She especially enjoys helping people to hone their unique voices while working with them to demystify the process of drafting, revising, and editing.

Damian Johansson is from the apex of the United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned his MFA from the University of Minnesota, specializing in Creative Nonfiction. Before pursuing graduate work, he tutored Big 10 athletes, students from more than 40 countries and home languages, a high-profile felon writing her memoirs, high school students taking their first shaky steps into the stanzas of poetry, retirees parsing sentences in their life stories - and so many more.

Mace Dent Johnson is a Staff Writer at Wirecutter (The New York Times). Before that, they were the Senior Poetry Fellow in the Creative Writing program at Washington University in Saint Louis, where they completed an MFA in poetry. Mace is a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, and they have published prose and poetry online and in print, appearing in the Nepantla Anthology, The New Republic, them. magazine and more.

K Ho is a writer and photographer from Vancouver BC, unceded Coast Salish territories. Their lyric essay “Dispatches” won The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and their work has appeared in Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, PRISM International, THEM lit, the Canadian National Arts Centre, and elsewhere. They are a 2018 VONA/Voices Fellow, an MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of Minnesota, and an upcoming Tin House 2023 Fellow. They currently live in Minneapolis, MN, Dakota territory.

Ally Sass is a screenwriter, playwright and educator based in Brooklyn and Boston, MA. She received her MFA in Playwriting from Boston University in 2021. There, she taught screenwriting and playwriting to undergraduates, along with general dialogue writing. Her plays have been produced in New York, Boston, and internationally. She was a semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and a two-time finalist for the Kennedy Center's John Cauble Short Play award. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights' Center, and Actors' Equity Association. She was born and raised in Cambridge, MA.

Ally is currently teaching at Beaver Country Day School in Boston, Massachusetts, and developing a new script.

K. Henderson is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of the poetry chapbook Cruel Maths or Kind Proof (Black Warrior Review 47.1). Their poems appear in AGNI, ANMLY, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. K. has a BA from Bennington College and is in the third and final year of an MFA in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, where they were a 2020 Artist-in-Residence at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. K. writes poetry, fiction, and literary/film criticism.

Kathryn Diaz is a writer and instructor from Houston, Texas. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Cornell University, a BFA in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Houston, and has additional education in the craft of writing and teaching from Writespace, Inprint, and the Knight Institute. Over the past several years, she has mentored students in crafting academic essays, research papers, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and personal essays. She is the 2022 recipient of Cornell's Martin Sampson Teaching award. Her writing has been featured in The Cincinnati Review, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, and Glass Mountain.

Madeline McFarland is a writer and data analyst based in Brooklyn, NY. She is an MFA candidate at NYU in the Creative Writing program in Fiction and graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 2018 with degrees in History and Economics.

Madeline worked at The Demex Group as a Communications Associate until 2023, and is currently working on a short story collection.