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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.

Kate Lewis

Kate Lewis is an essayist and poet whose work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health, Romper, The Good Trade, Literary Mama, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, and elsewhere. She lives outside of Washington, D.C. with her husband, their two young children, and a mischief-making dog. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and supported by time at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Perry Morgan Fellowship from Old Dominion University. She is an essays reader at The Rumpus, a founding editor at In A Flash, and the former senior non-fiction editor at Barely South Review. At Substack, she writes The Village, conversations on craft and community. Find her online @katehasthoughts.