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.
Tracy Rothschild Lynch
Tracy Rothschild Lynch holds an MA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She adores teaching creative writing (particularly nonfiction) to all ages, particularly emerging writers as they build confidence and discover their strengths. Community is very much a part of growing as a writer, so she supports interaction and comfort within her classrooms.
Tracy is thrilled to be part of The Muse faculty. A previous Pushcart finalist, she was recently published in the essay anthology, Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness, edited by Diane Gottlieb. Tracy’s essay “When Organ Becomes Metaphor” won second place in Charlotte Lit’s first-annual Lit/South Awards. Her writing has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, (mic)ro(mac), Epoch Press, Brain,Child, Janus Literary, and others. She is currently working on a memoir about her quest to "solve" the women in her family and her ultimate realization that to break intergenerational trauma, she had to turn the "fixing" to herself.
Tracy is a member of Star City Poets. The Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia currently serve as her muse and her playgrounds. She has two grown daughters, who ain't too shabby as writers themselves and positively exquisite as humans.