Elsa Bermúdez

Associate Director of Specialty Programs
Brooklyn Regional Manager (Interim) 

Elsa Bermúdez has loved leading creative writing, essay writing, comedy writing, and graphic noveling workshops at Writopia Lab since 2014! As Associate Director of Specialty Programs, she runs Writopia Lab’s scholarship program, Write to Recognition, and several off-site partnership programs. Elsa is a writer, artist, and educator. She earned her BA in Philosophy from Providence College and her MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from The New School. Her short story, Agency, was published in H.O.W. Journal's Issue 11. She also studied improv and sketch comedy writing at UCB. Elsa has written, produced, and performed for comedy stages around New York City, including the Magnet Theater, the Pit, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. As an artist, she has published comics and illustrations in issues 8 and 9 of Brown Sugar Lit. Elsa is also a Director for WriCampia and currently runs our Brooklyn Lab in Park Slope.