Academic Fellow
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Courtney Zoffness serves as a mentor and adviser to Writopia upperclassmen transitioning into college. Courtney taught fiction and memoir workshops year-round at Writopia Lab from 2008 through 2009, while teaching creative writing at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of New Jersey. She has also taught at the University of Arizona, and Johns Hopkins University, and as a full-time visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Allegheny College from 2009-2010—and is thus well-versed in the rigors and expectations of college-level writing. Courtney's fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Washington Square, Saint Ann’s Review, Tampa Review, and the international Fish Prize Stories, and has been honored by Best New American Voices, the UA Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She’s published nonfiction in Ladies’ Home Journal, Our Town, and New York’s daily Metro, worked in an editorial capacity for MTV Networks and Rolling Stone, and served as managing editor of the United Nations-sponsored Earth Times. In the summer of 2010, she was a international writer-in-residence at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She looks forward to drawing on her multifaceted career path to guide Writopia students, current and former, as they make academic and professional choices.
Courtney Zoffness serves as a mentor and adviser to Writopia upperclassmen transitioning into college. Courtney taught fiction and memoir workshops year-round at Writopia Lab from 2008 through 2009, while teaching creative writing at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of New Jersey. She has also taught at the University of Arizona, and Johns Hopkins University, and as a full-time visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Allegheny College from 2009-2010—and is thus well-versed in the rigors and expectations of college-level writing. Courtney's fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Washington Square, Saint Ann’s Review, Tampa Review, and the international Fish Prize Stories, and has been honored by Best New American Voices, the UA Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She’s published nonfiction in Ladies’ Home Journal, Our Town, and New York’s daily Metro, worked in an editorial capacity for MTV Networks and Rolling Stone, and served as managing editor of the United Nations-sponsored Earth Times. In the summer of 2010, she was a international writer-in-residence at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She looks forward to drawing on her multifaceted career path to guide Writopia students, current and former, as they make academic and professional choices.