Skip to main content

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

Alexia Nader-Rondinini

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. 

Hanne Williams-Baron

Program Manager

Hanne Williams-Baron

Hanne is delighted to join Writopia Lab as Program Manager. Born and raised in San Francisco, and now based in South Berkeley, Hanne is proud to rep the Bay! While attending Oberlin College, she found a home in slam poetry, and enjoyed coaching the writers on her team to semi-finals at the national college poetry slam. In 2019, Hanne graduated from Oberlin with a degree in Comparative American Studies, and received the Comfort Starr Prize for her capstone on the spoken word movement. She earned a Certificate in Comics from the Sequential Artists Workshop in 2023, and has co-organized the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest (EBABZ). Her essays can be found in Xtra Magazine, the Oakland Review of Books, and the This Year Project. In 2026, she co-edited an anthology of queer and trans stories which is available at the Oakland Public Library! She loves helping writers find their most confident and unique voices, and is so excited to hype up Writopia Lab’s Bay Area community.

What's Hot?

School Year Programs
Summer Programs

Enroll Now!

Weekly Trimester-Long Workshops

Check out the Weekly Trimester-Long Schedule.

Holiday & School Break Workshops

Check out the Half-Day and Full-Day schedules.