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Shanille Martin

San Francisco Regional Manager
Instructor

Shanille Martin

Shanille Martin joined the Writopia team in 2019 as a WriCampia counselor and assistant instructor while studying Creative Writing at Purchase College. Since graduating in 2020, she has been teaching creative writing and debate workshops at camp and at Writopia full-time. Shanille has been published in various magazines and platforms such as Gandy Dancer, Newsweek, Italics Mine, and Submissions Magazine. She is a co-founder of Brown Sugar Literary Magazine, which publishes the marginalized voices of women of color. A former high school debate team captain, Shanille is thrilled to now teach both creative writing and debate at Writopia. She is currently working on her first novel. 
 

Alexia Nader

Instructor

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Alexia is excited to return to Writopia Lab as an instructor. Alexia grew up in Miami but has called San Francisco home for the last twelve years. She’s taught creative writing to children and adults in many settings including universities, high schools, middle schools, libraries, rehabilitation centers, and her favorite, Writopia Lab. She earned her MA in journalism from NYU and an MFA in fiction from the University of San Francisco. She has been working on her first novel for which she received a 2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellowship. Her fiction has been published in Your Impossible Voice, her poetry in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and her criticism and journalism in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Yorker, among other outlets. She was an editor at the literary journal The Brooklyn Quarterly for several years. Her debut novel is forthcoming in fall 2026 from University of Iowa Press. Alexia is passionate about helping new writers find their voices.

Jordan Casomar

Instructor

Jordan Casomar

Jordan K. Casomar is delighted to be joining Writopia Lab as an instructor! Jordan is a prose writer with essays in The Kenyon Review, Catapult, and elsewhere. He received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2021, was the nonfiction runner-up in The Pinch’s 2018 Spring Literary Awards, and is an alum of the VONA conference for writers of color. Jordan has an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. His first novel—a dramedy about high schoolers, toxic masculinity, and the so-called friendzone—is forthcoming. Jordan loves teaching writing workshops and running D&D games. 

Cory-Alice André-Johnson

Community Partnership Coordinator and Instructor
Cory-Alice Andre-JohnsonCory-Alice André-Johnson enthusiastically joined Writopia in 2026 as a Community Partnership Coordinator and Instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Africana Studies at Tulane University. She writes ethnographic fiction and critical theory, often blending the two together. She has published three short stories in this style, Hunger, Vazaha Always Want to Know, but We Talk Like Dreams, and They'll Steal Your Eyes, They'll Steal Your Teeth. Her first book, Between Bones and Sea, is in contract with Duke University Press. She has also taught extensively in university settings, including a number of college writing courses. She enjoys working with students to understand how language and creative writing can be used to build both imaginative worlds of possibility and strong arguments about the worlds we currently inhabit.

Sloane Holzer

Marketing Associate

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Sloane has been a part of Writopia Lab since March 2026, where she works as a Marketing Associate with the Bay Area chapter of Writopia. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts in 2025. She also holds a BA in History from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. She is deeply passionate about the power of language, and is thrilled to be helping the re-established Bay Area chapter find its voice and audience through marketing efforts.

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