Our Teachers
The Muse's instructors are all working writers and published authors who have taught courses at colleges, universities, and other community organizations. Read our teachers’ biographies and see what classes they are currently teaching.
Michele Young-Stone
Michele Young-Stone is the author of three novels: Lost in the Beehive, an O Magazine 2018 Book Pick, Above Us Only Sky, and The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, which the Boston Globe called "an exceptionally rich and sure-handed debut." She is at work on a fourth novel. After teaching high school English for seven years, Michele earned her MFA in fiction writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina with her husband and son.
Previous Classes Taught
- Celebrating the Literary Witch in You
- (Winter/Spring 2022)
- Celebrating the Literary Witch in You
- (Winter/Spring 2023)
- The Fiction Studio (Tuesday Evenings)
- (Fall 2022)
- The Fiction Studio (Tuesday Evenings)
- (Winter/Spring 2023)
- The Fiction Studio (Tuesday Evenings)
- (Summer 2023)
- The Fiction Studio (Tuesday Evenings)
- (Fall 2023)
- The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evening
- (Winter/Spring 2021)
- The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evenings
- (Fall 2020)
- The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evenings
- (Summer 2021)
- The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evenings
- (Fall 2021)
- The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evenings
- (Winter/Spring 2022)
- The Fiction Workshop: Tuesday Mornings
- (Fall 2021)
- The Online Fiction Studio
- (Winter/Spring 2024)