MFA in Creative Writing Program
802-322-1693 I believe that an individualized approach to the teaching of writing is the only effective way that writing can be taught, and I am deeply committed to the kind of transformational learning that Goddard offers its students. Read More....
micheline.aharonianmarcom@goddard.edu Writing
is obviously a solitary act, but I believe that those of us who us who
spend our lives using words to make art and story benefit greatly from
collaboration and exchange. Read More....
I advise my playwriting students to read plays, see plays in performance, write honestly and rewrite bravely. Read More....
I am a First Amendment absolutist. I believe in creative freedom. Let the writing answer to the writer's vision, and damn the torpedos. Read More....
I take a “mechanics” approach in my teaching. I like to rip apart plays and movies to see how they work technically and I encourage my students to do the same. Read More....
I have currently been collaborating a lot with artists in different disciplines. I also do a series of irreverent public talks sponsored by the Seattle Opera that offer pop culture/feminist/literary and goofy analysis of opera. Read More....
In working with MFA students, I always keep in mind the lessons of critical consciousness and democratic dialogue that stem from a lifetime of community activism centered on social justice issues. Read More....
I love narrative and I love busting narrative. I love the stage picture and all the elements of performance that one can bring into an evocative piece of theatre. Read More....
Much of my work the past fifteen years has been concerned with the
body, as both subject and metaphor; as the place where the personal
becomes the universal; as the site of memory, language, and desire. Read More....
As a teacher, I try and discern where a writer is going, and then guide them towards the best form to carry the story--whether poetry, fiction or non-fiction. Read More....
Individuality, authenticity, and risk are the three qualities that interest me the most in the work of the writers I read and in the work of the students I advise. Read More....
I support my students both in the space before writing begins and at the places where their work approaches some kind of limit, or break, and needs to transform. Read More....
 Susan Kim, Faculty Advisor
Teaching dramatic writing isn’t like instructing someone how to ride a bicycle or mend a broken pipe. Writing is unique and idiosyncratic, a deeply personal form of communication. Read More....
I was in love with the possibilities in the genres we were teaching because so many students were making manuscripts they couldn’t call one thing. Fiction kept turning into non-fiction, poems kept turning into essays. Read More....
I am a screenwriter and playwright. My film credits include the popular comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Read More....
In my opinion, the role of a teacher is to offer students support, encouragement, and constructive criticism to facilitate that journey. What a writer needs to hear is not so much what a teacher likes as what works, and what doesn't. Read More....
With writing, we connect, we reach, we explore possibility; writing enlarges us so that we can contain continents and solar systems, discover other centuries and imagine other futures, or simply better understand what is now. Read More....
In teaching I focus on an open exchange and sharing of ideas, a critical empowering through prompting self-questioning and examining what place writing might really hold in one's life. Read More....
I hesitate to give any sweeping delcaration about pedagogy because I believe an individual approach is best. Read More....
Much in the same way that when I look at a piece of student writing I try to discern the emerging story that may not yet be on the page, I begin working with a student by asking what she or he most passionately wants to do. Read More....
'Rules' of good fiction and dramatic exposition must be acknowledged but also, once the craft is mastered, questioned. Genres can be opened up, reshuffled, combined into meta-genres. Read More....
When an editor approached me in 1996 about writing a history of the telescope, I immediately declined. But then the editor said, “Think of it as an essay,” and I haven’t looked back. Read More....
Rachel Pollack, Faculty Advisor My approach to writing begins with each student’s goals. Against the familiar dictum to 'write what you know best,' I advise people to write what they care about most deeply. Read More....
I consider myself an experimental formalist writer: someone who likes both to invent forms and to mess around with (ok, destroy) culturally received forms in pursuit of extreme play. Read More....
As a teacher, my initial focus is to help each student strip away analysis (and self consciousness) and find the unique urgency in her or his work. Read More....
I like it when students bring outside concerns into their writing so as to expand their work outward beyond emotion or self exploration. Read More....
In teaching I focus on close readings of master stories to help students work though problems in their narratives. But best of all I teach risk and try to help students find their own particular window ledge to jump off from. Read More....
In my teaching, regardless of the level, I concentrate on the intersections between art and craft, the interaction between the individual's vision and portrayal of that vision. Read More....
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Paul Selig, Program Director
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Faculty Advisor
Kyle Bass, Faculty Advisor
Ryan Boudinot, Faculty Advisor
Deborah Brevoort, Faculty Advisor 
Rebecca Brown, Faculty Advisor
Jan Clausen, Faculty Advisor
Darrah Cloud, Faculty Advisor
Kenny Fries, Faculty Advisor
Beatrix Gates, Faculty Advisor
Elena Georgiou, Faculty Advisor
Bhanu Kapil, Faculty Advisor
Michael Klein, Faculty Advisor
Neil Landau, Faculty Advisor
Aimee Liu, Faculty Advisor
Jeanne Mackin, Faculty Advisor
Douglas A. Martin, Faculty Advisor
John McManus, Faculty Advisor
Nicola Morris, Faculty Advisor
Victoria Nelson, Faculty Advisor
Richard Panek, Faculty Advisor 
Paisley Rekdal, Faculty Advisor 
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Faculty Advisor
Juliana Spahr, Faculty Advisor
Darcey Steinke, Faculty Advisor 
Jane Wohl, Faculty Advisor