Teaching
past / current / future courses and workshops
Past, current, and future courses
Upcoming
Workshop
Banyan Writers’ Workshop (apply here)
Past
Writing the Short Story
Off Assignment, 2026
Queer and Feminist Literature
University of Hong Kong, 2026
Graduate Fiction Workshop
University of Iowa, 2025
Advanced Fiction
Mercer University, 2025
Intro to Fiction and Intermediate Fiction
Emory University, 2022-2024
workshop: the real and unreal
Catapult (Zoom), January 4-February 22, 2022
Catapult (Zoom), June 23-July 28th 2021
Catapult (Zoom), January-February 2021
Writing about place: what is home?
Outer Coast Year, with college credit from Alaska Pacific University, August-October 2020
summer batch: prose
Bombay Writers Workshop, March-June 2020
PROSE WRITING
Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand, January-March 2020
FICTION: THE REAL AND THE UNREAL
Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, July 2019
FICTION WRITING
University of Iowa, January-May 2019
Creative writing studio workshop
University of Iowa, August-December 2018
Sitka, Alaska, home to Outer Coast College. Photo by Sanjena Sathian.
A sweet gift from students at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio (2019)