Teachers of Creative Writing Who Identify as LGBTQ

Australia

• Alistair McCartney, Professor of fiction at Antioch University's MFA in Creative Writing Program,

Canada

• Beth Brant, writer. Recipient of the Canada Council Award in Creative Writing
• A. M. Dellamonica, teaches Creative Writing at University of California, Los Angeles
• Camilla Gibb, adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Guelph-Humber and the University of Toronto.
• Sky Gilbert, playwright. Teaches Creative Writing and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph
• Larissa Lai, directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing at the University of Calgary.
• Betsy Warland, o-founded the national Creative Writer nonfiction Collective.

Great Britain

• Bernardine Evaristo, Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University.
• Richard House, novelist and teacher of Creative Writing at University of Birmingham.
• Andrew McMillan, lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University.

Greece

• Olga Broumas, Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University.

Ireland

• Colm Toibin, novelist and Professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.

Israel

• Evan Fallenberg, teaches creative writing and literary translation at Bar-Ilan University.

Jamaica

• Nalo Hopkinson, Associate Professor in Creative Writing, University of California at Riverside.

Mexico

• Benjamin Alire Saenz, novelist and teacher at the University of Texas, El Paso in creative writing.

New Zealand

• Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, Distinguished Creative Fellow in Maori Literature at the University of Auckland.

Scotland

• Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

Tanzania

• Mark Behr, Professor of Creative Writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.

United States

• Rane Ramon Arroyo, Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Toledo
• Ellis Avery, teacher of creative writing at Columbia University, and formerly at University of California at Berkeley.
• Judith Barrington, former faculty member of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
• Barrie Jean Borich, member of the creative writing faculty of the English Department/MA in Writing & Publishing Program at Chicago’s DePaul University.
• Elizabeth Bradfield, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University.
• Jericho Brown, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University.
• Chloe Caldwell, teaches creative nonfiction at Catapult/Electric Literature and Gotham Writer's Workshop in New York.
• Christopher Castellani, Artistic Director of Grub Street, an independent creative writing center.
• Nona Caspers, Professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.
• Ching-in Chen, teaches creative writing at Sam Houston State University.
• Michael Cunningham, author and Senior Lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.
• Emily M. Danforth, teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College in Providence.
• Meg Day, Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania.
• Samuel R. Delany, author and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
• Carolina De Robertis, Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
• Hannah Ensor, Assistant Professor of creative writing at Michigan State University.
• Miriam Bird Greenberg, teacher of creative writing and Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University.
• Matthew Griffin, taught composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of Iowa and Walters State Community College.
• Rob Halpern, NEA Creative Writing Fellow.
• Eloise Klein Healy, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita, Antioch University and its Founding Chair, MFA in Creative Writing.
• Andrew Holleran, author. Teaches creative writing at American University in Washington, DC
• Fenton Johnson, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
• Rosamond S. King, teaches courses in Caribbean and African literature, creative writing, sexuality, performance, and immigrant literature.
• Sandra Gail Lambert, NEA Creative Writing Fellow.
• David Leavitt, member of the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Florida.
• Brian Leung, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, Purdue University.
• Paul Lisicky, currently teaches at Rutgers University, and former teacher of Creative Writing at Cornell University, The University of Houston, Antioch University, Sarah Lawrence College, Rutgers–Newark and New York University.
• Jeff Mann, teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
• Roya Marsh, poet and creative writing teacher.
• Richard McCann, former professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.
• Adam McOmber, teaches creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.
• John McManus, Associate Professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University (North Virginia) and Goddard College (Vermont).
• Rahul Mehta, teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts.
• Joon Oluchi Lee, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design.
• James Polchin, teaches creative non-fiction at New York University.
• Martin Pousson, recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts in Creative Writing.
• Jonathan Parks-Ramage, lectured on journalism and creative non-fiction at Fordham University.
• Lev Raphael, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Michigan State University.
• Darieck Scott, researcher in creative writing.
• Edmund White, author. Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University.
• Emerson Whitney, teaches in the BFA creative writing program at Goddard College.