We choose our leaders for their teaching experience, supportive approach, and genuine passion for helping writers thrive and realize their vision. In addition to workshops, we also work privately with clients around the globe. Read more about how we choose our coaches and leaders.
Nicole Criona
Writing Coach, Developmental Editor, Instructor
Fiction (most genres), Memoir, YA Fiction, Essay, Short Story, Screenplays
In 2003, Nicole co-founded Los Angeles Writers Group and is a full-time Creative Writing Coach. Nicole’s results speak for themselves: She’s had the honor of helping clients get traditionally published in both fiction and nonfiction, be hybrid published, and release highly rated self-published books.
Her path has been anything but traditional. Read why she knows that passion and persistence are the only credentials that matter. Read her story…
Resa Alboher
Writing Coach,
Editor, Instructor
Poetry, Memoir, Short Story, Children’s Books, Fiction and Nonfiction
Resa Alboher is one of the founding editors of St. Petersburg Review. She is also a Springhouse Journal editorial board member, a book scout, and a book coach/manuscript consultant. She’s a writer across genres whose publications include Roads & Kingdoms, Cosmonauts Avenue, Scapegoat Review, Black Heart Magazine, Rewire Me, Mango Salute, Have an NYC 2, Maintenant 5, and Radar Productions.
She is a passionate, energetic, kind, and patient writing teacher and a longtime traveler with perpetual culture shock who lived in Russia for 20 years, where she worked with the legendary Summer Literary Seminars St. Petersburg and taught American Writing at the Humanities University in Moscow. Read more…
Kate Graham
Editor, Fiction, TV & Screenplays
Kate Graham is a fiction writer and editor with a passion for speculative worlds, from science fiction to fantasy and the strange spaces in between. Trained by writing coach Nicole Criona, she brings an insider’s understanding to every manuscript. With an eye for scene craft and character analysis, she’s adept at the pacing and plot structure that keep a story moving and readers turning pages.
Kate has editorial experience across fiction, including on the dystopian sci-fi A Fly on the Wall A to Z by Tim Werenko. She is currently at work on her own science fiction novel. Because she understands firsthand what it means to wrestle a story into shape, she brings that empathy and honest, constructive feedback to every story. Read more…
Ellen Archer Garbarino
Instructor, Mind-Body
Coach for Writers
Ellen Archer Garbarino (she/her) is a dedicated Mind-Body Coach and the author of “Stay Sober and Save the World the Cave Woman Way, ” which incorporates many mind-body skills. She used these skills to write and edit her book, which she dubbed Lazybones Magic and is the basis for the Lazybones Writing Magic 6-week audio course.
Ellen just finished her historical fiction YA novel and is currently querying. Read more…
Rachel Stull
Instructor
Rachel Stull studied under Nicole for more than five years. She is a devoted Science Fiction nerd, D&D player, and former high school Earth Science Teacher turned author whose interest in World War II history led to her pursuing a degree in European history and penning her first novel, “A Secret Never to be Told.” (Romance set in Bletchley Park told through the eyes of a 94-year woman with dementia after the death of her husband).
Rachel got her start in writing via Fan Fiction, where she honed her novice fiction writing skills with a large audience of forgiving followers. Currently, she is working on part two of a three-part science fiction series set in a dystopian world, not unlike our own. Read more…