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.
Erin Beaty
Erin Beaty is a native of Indianapolis, IN and a US Naval Academy graduate, studying (of all things) aerospace engineering. Now she writes young adult novels with Macmillan, including The Traitor’s Circle, a political fantasy trilogy, the fantasy thriller Blood and Moonlight, and its upcoming sequel Silence and Shadow. She moved away from the Tidewater area in 2017 due to her husband’s military duty but continues to teach Muse classes remotely.
Previous Classes Taught
- Let Your Story Shine: Avoiding Mistakes that Kill Your Prose
- (Fall 2022)
- Making Sci-Fi and Fantasy Digestible
- (Summer 2021)
- Making Sci-Fi and Fantasy Digestible
- (Fall 2021)
- Plotting with a Twist
- (Fall 2021)
- The Advanced Young Adult Fiction Workshop
- (Fall 2020)
- The Fiction Workshop (Thursday Mornings)
- (Winter/Spring 2023)
- Writing YA Fiction Workshop
- (Winter/Spring 2021)