Two New Westside Teachers Join WWLA Roster

Writing Workshops Los Angeles began in Los Feliz, but since then we’ve expanded to many other neighborhoods in LA, from Glendale to West Adams, from Hancock Park to Santa Monica, and elsewhere. In an effort to meet the demand of writers who live closer to the ocean, we’ve hired two new instructors to teach on the westside; welcome Scott Cheshire, who will teach fiction, and Dawn Dorland Perry, who will teach nonfiction. Stay tuned for their classes (and many others) in the spring 2015 class schedule, to be posted in the next few days!  In the meantime, check out Scott and Dawn’s bios below:

Scott Cheshire is the author of the novel High as the Horses’ Bridles (Henry Holt). His work has been published in AGNI, Electric Literature, Guernica, Harper’s, One Story, Slice, and the Picador Book of Men. He earned his MFA from Hunter College, and has taught writing for the Gotham Writers’ Workshop and the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop.

Dawn Dorland Perry was raised in rural Iowa and graduated from Scripps College, Harvard Divinity School, and the MFA program at the University of Maryland, where she won a teaching award for her fiction and essay classes. In 2014 she received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Writers Workshops and the Vermont Studio Center, a creative residency at the Hambidge Center for the Arts, and was a first-time presenter at GrubStreet’s annual Muse & the Marketplace conference where she’s teaching again this year. Dawn’s fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review online and The Drum Literary Magazine; her craft essays are available on the GrubStreet blog, including her personal essay “Why I Write.” Dawn is at work on a novel about poverty and American class ascendance called Econoline and several essays. She lives with her husband and a pit bull in Mar Vista.