Stevenson Summer Writers’ Workshop

Our Faculty

Meagan Nyland
Program Director

Meagan Nyland is a chaser of words, teaching creative writing, publishing, and video games at Stevenson University. She is the Faculty Advisor for The Greenspring Review and Director of the Stevenson Summer Writers’ Workshop. She holds degrees in English and Television & Radio, and earned her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Her most recent work can be found in Fudoki, Daily Science Fiction, and Twist in Time Magazine, but she also has three story collections and was the managing editor for the anthology Writing Alone and Other Group Activities. She publishes under Meagan Noel Hart.

Samantha Stephenson
Student Assistant

Samantha Stephenson is an English major and Photography minor at Stevenson University. She serves as Student Assistant for the English Department and as Writing Tutor for Stevenson’s Academic Link. She’s also a Student Ambassador for the Admissions Department. She has published poetry and fiction in the Greenspring Review, as well as designed their In The Room podcast cover art! Someday soon, she’ll be teaching high school English on the East Coast. For now, you can find her working on her blog, “Simply Stated By Samantha”, listening to Spotify, or travelling!

Matt Larrimore
Course Instructor

Matthew Larrimore lived in Baltimore until 2007 when he moved West. He earned his Bachelor’s degree at Northern Colorado in 2010, then a Master’s in Creative Writing in 2012 from Northern Arizona while teaching English Composition. At Old Dominion University, he earned his Master of Fine Arts while teaching Composition and Literature. He taught Developmental English Courses at Front Range Community College before returning to Baltimore and teaching at Stevenson University. He’s currently teaching Composition and Introduction to Creative Writing. He was an editor for his collegiate literary journals, Editor-in-Chief for his own online journal, and has published poetry.

Ron Williams
Course Instructor

Ron Kipling Williams is a writer, poet, performance artist, and educator. His awards include: Baltimore City African American Unsung Hero, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist, United Workers’ Human Rights Champion, National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching, and Fulbright Scholarship Alternate. Ron holds both a BA and MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he serves as adjunct professor and faculty fellow at the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics. Ron also serves as adjunct professor in the English Department at Stevenson University.

Kelly Purtell
Course Instructor

Kelly Purtell is a multi-disciplinary teacher, artist, and performance artist from the Baltimore area. Specializing in poetry, song writing, jewelry design, fabric dyeing, and aerial acrobatics, Kelly has been an artist her entire life. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in literature and creative writing from UMBC and an Interdisciplinary Master’s degree in social justice and human rights. As a professor of literature and writing at Stevenson, she has found great joy helping students express themselves creatively through writing and connect with culture through literature.

Nic Anstett
Course Instructor & Creative Bridge Mentor

Nic Anstett is a writer from Baltimore, MD who loves the bizarre, spectacular, and queer. She is a graduate from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, University of Oregon’s MFA program, and the Tin House Summer Workshop where she was a 2021 Scholar. Her work is published and forthcoming in Witness Magazine, Passages North, North American Review, Bat City Review, Lightspeed Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Emily Dillon
Course Instructor

Emily Dillon is a writer and educator from Maryland whose creative work ranges from nonfiction to poetry and all the lyrical places in-between. An avid reader, she also publishes book reviews and teaching guides. Formerly an Assistant Editor for Brevity, an internationally award-winning literary magazine, Emily is now the Managing Editor for Speculative Nonfiction, a literary magazine co-founded by Guggenheim award-winners Robin Hemley and Lelia Philip. She holds a Masters Degree in English Education from the University of Maryland and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. She currently teaches at both Stevenson University and Prince George’s Community College. Her writing–both creative and analytical–has been published in various print and online spaces. Within the last two years, these publications have included Brevity Blog, Complete Sentence, Crab Creek Review, Essay Daily, Hippocampus Magazine, River Teeth: A Journal Narrative Nonfiction, Twin Pies Literary, and Wine Cellar Press. Learn more at www.emilydillonwriting.com.