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.
Helen Peluso
Helen Peluso is a current MFA student in Fiction at Old Dominion University, where her work has won the annual Jerry Dickseski Fiction Prize. She also served as Florida Atlantic University's 2022-2023 Student Writer in Residence. She specializes in literary fiction, as well as sci-fi, fantasy, and horror/thriller genres. In her work and as a teacher, she likes to take a specific emphasis on character and the role they can play in the larger narrative.
Current Classes Taught
- Get in Your Narrator’s Head: Character Psychology Writing Workshop
- (Winter/Spring 2025)
- Plot Hospital: A Collective Workshop for Arranging, Sequencing, and Structuring
- (Winter/Spring 2025)
Previous Classes Taught
- Fiction 1: Learning to Write Fiction (Evenings)
- (Summer 2024)
- Fiction 1: Learning to Write Fiction (Mornings)
- (Summer 2024)
- Fiction 2: Deeper into Character & Story (Evenings)
- (Summer 2024)
- Fiction 2: Deeper into Character & Story (Mornings)
- (Summer 2024)
- Fiction 3: Deeper into Voice & Revision
- (Fall 2024)
- Get in Your Narrator’s Head: Character Psychology Writing Workshop
- (Fall 2024)