Bronx Loaf endeavors to bring only the most passionate, dedicated writers and teachers to lead our workshops.
Amy Ewing has led our Fantasy Fiction Workshop since 2015. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy – The Jewel, The White Rose, and The Black Key. Her books have been published in over 15 languages. Amy received her MFA in Creative Writing for Children from The New School, where she was lucky enough to meet a fabulous community of YA writers who keep her sane on a daily basis. Her next book, The Cerulean, was recently published in February of 2019.
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Dave Roman has led the Visual Storytelling Workshop since 2015. He is the author/illustrator of the Astronaut Academy series and writer of the graphic novels Teen Boat! and Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery. He has contributed stories to Comics Squad: Recess!, Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, Nursery Rhyme Comics, and Goosebumps Graphix: Slappy’s Tales of Horror. Dave is the co-author of two New York Times bestselling graphic novels, X-Men: Misfits and The Last Airbender: Zuko’s Story. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Dave has worked as an editor at Nickelodeon Magazine, and First Second Book’s Science Comics imprint. He lives in Astoria, NY and his latest project is the all-ages webcomic Starbunny, Inc.
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Rich Villar is a poet, essayist, and educator originally from Paterson, New Jersey. He is the author of Comprehending Forever (Willow Books, 2014), and his poetry and commentary have appeared on HBO, NPR, and in numerous journals and anthologies. Rich leads poetry workshops and arts integration classrooms in high schools, middle schools, and educative spaces throughout the Northeast; he served as faculty for the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in 2016. He is also a founding member of the Títere Poets, a collective of poets dedicated to challenging toxic masculinity within the Latinx community and beyond.
Villar's latest work is anthologized in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2019) and The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, forthcoming 2020). |