FALL 2024 & SPRING 2025 FELLOWS
ANNE PRITIKIN
Originally from Northern California, Anne Pritikin is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction at The New School. She received her BA in Creative Writing and Cinema/Media Studies from the University of Chicago where her thesis, the beginning of a novel, won the department’s Les River Fellowship for Young Novelists, the highest single prize awarded annually. Her writing has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her short story “Hold Hands, Children” was awarded an honorable mention in Ninth Letter’s annual fiction contest and is forthcoming in December. Along with being a WriteOn fellow, she is a research assistant.
Tawanda Morgan
is a multi-genre, mixed-media, Arts Writing candidate. She is a student of Hip Hop and Black films, and conducts extensive research to write critically and creatively about pop culture and politics.
Shelby McDonald
is a dual Fiction and Nonfiction MFA candidate at The New School. She is from Berkeley, California, and now lives in New York City with her fiance. She works as a teaching fellow for WriteOn and Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Hannah berman
is a freelance journalist and fiction writer from Brooklyn. She writes about food, culture, and the effects of the internet. She’s in the second year of the New School’s MFA program, and working on her first novel.
Brianna Lopez
is an editor and nonfiction writer born and raised in New York. She currently works full-time in book publishing and is a second-year MFA student at The New School. She writes food-related articles for Static Media publications, as well as personal essays, and she created and runs a food blog called wait… don’t eat yet. Learn more about Brianna at https://www.briannaylopez.
Jennifer Cho Salaff
is a writer and award-winning journalist who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and Orange County, California. She has degrees from UC Berkeley and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and is currently pursuing a dual Fiction and Nonfiction MFA at The New School. You will find her work published in BOMB, Darling, Los Angeles Daily News and Orange County Register, among others. This is her second year as a WriteOn teaching fellow.
CAT WESTLEY
is a poet from southwest Florida. She holds an undergraduate degree in Performing Arts with a double minor in Casting and Creative Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Currently, she is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her work navigates themes of mythology, mental health, and relationships. When not writing, you can find her snuggled up with her cat, Rooney, reading. She resides in Brooklyn.
ARIANNA GUNDLACH
is a writer who grew up traveling the world with her military family. She has a BA from the University of Rochester and is currently pursuing an MFA at the New School studying Writing for Children and Young Adults. She serves as the Head of Copy and Series Editor for the New School Free Press and writes a series called Writes & Bites about cool writing spots in the city. When she’s not hard at work on her YA novel, you can usually find her pointing at cute dogs on the street or correcting someone’s grammar on the page.