Hugo House teachers are at the core of our goal to help writers become better writers. Our teachers are writers; they are selected on the basis of their active engagement in the literary world as well as their love of teaching.
Teachers
Hugo House teachers are at the core of our goal to help writers become better writers. Our teachers are writers; they are selected on the basis of their active engagement in the literary world as well as their love of teaching.
Joel Heng Hartse teaches writing at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His books include Dancing about Architecture is a Reasonable Thing to Do (2022), and TL;DR: A Very Brief Guide to Reading & Writing in University (UBC Press, 2023).
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Go to josehernandezdiaz.com for more information or follow Jose @josehernandezdz.
Narradora y escritora mexicana. Estudió derecho en la UNAM y administración pública en el ITAM. Cursó Narrativa y Novela en la Escuela de Escritura Ateneu Barcelonés en España. En 2016 fue becada para estudiar Crónica Latina por la Escuela de Periodismo Portátil en colaboración con la Universidad de Stanford. Coautora seleccionada por concurso literario y publicada en las Antologías: Puentes (2017), Sabores de mi tierra (2019) y Efectos secundarios (2020). Ganadora en el Concurso de poesía: "Tu cuerpo de agua" Poetry on Buses Seattle 2016.
Su testimonio, "No todo lo que brilla es oro. Reinventándome como mujer migrante" fue publicado por INAH en el libro Recuerdos, añoranzas y vivencias (2019). Creadora y autora del blog Khomparte. Sus relatos han sido publicados en los periódicos La Voz de Argentina; La Raza del Noroeste y El Siete Días en el estado de Washington, en la Revista Digital Seattle Escribe y en la organización literaria para escritores emergentes per-e-gren
En 2022 fue ganadora del concurso para realizar la primera residencia de escritura en español en los Estados Unidos otorgada por Mineral School y Seattle Escribe, espacio de donde emerge su primer libro sobre cuentos callejeros.
Amy Hirayama is a UW Bothell Creative Writing and Poetics MFA candidate who is currently working on her thesis. She is a former middle school teacher who worked in South Seattle for seven years. Amy uses writing as a way to explore her mixed-race Hapa identity, imagine spaces of belonging for herself and connect across difference. Born in the Pacific Northwest, she finds inspiration in the beauty of this region. Amy is a 2021-2022 Imagining America PAGE Fellow. Her poetry can be found in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Strait Up magazine as well as the forthcoming chapbook Hariboetry.
Paul Hlava Ceballos has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. His work has been published in POETRY, Pleiades, Triquarterly, Poetry Northwest, and BOMB, among other journals and newspapers. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood shares pages with Quenton Baker, Dr. Christina Sharpe, and Torkwase Dyson. He received his MFA from New York University and currently lives in Seattle.
NICOLE HOMER is a community college educator, poet, writer, performer, and author of Pecking Order. Homer lives online at nicolehomer.com and lurks on social media as @realnicolehomer.
Minda Honey's essays have been featured by Longreads, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere, including the anthologies Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger and A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South. www.mindahoney.com
A native New Englander, Elise Hooper spent several years writing for television and online news outlets before getting an MA and teaching high-school literature and history. She now lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters. Previous novels include The Other Alcott and Learning to See.
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