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Piper Writers Studio Instructors

Expert writers with a passion for community

Our instructors are at the heart of what we do. 

To meet current instructors for the Piper Writers Studio, select a name from the list below.

For more information, you can meet past instructors or view upcoming classes and workshops. 

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Meet Our Current Instructors


Bryan Young

Bryan Young works across many different media. He worked as a writer and producer of documentary films, which were called "filmmaking gold" by The New York Times. He's also published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He's been a regular contributor for the Huffington Post, StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider magazine, SYFY, /Film, and the founder and editor in chief of the geek news and review site Big Shiny Robot! He co-authored Robotech: The Macross Saga RPG in 2019 and in 2020 he wrote a novel in the BattleTech Universe called Honor's Gauntlet.

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Airea D. Matthews

“Matthews’s writing is bold, innovative and complex.” —Washington Post

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María Fernanda

Awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and a finalist for The Hurston/Wright Amistad Award for College Writers in Poetry, María Fernanda is a recipient of several writing fellowships, including Callaloo.

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Courtney Craven

Courtney is a writer, editor, and accessibility expert in video games and education. They are the founder and editor-in-chief of Can I Play That?, a website that is making waves in the video game industry and giving disabled writers a platform of their own, as well as a transcriptionist for Epic Games. Courtney also specializes in helping writers to fine-tune their publicity assets for accessibility.

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