About Us
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History
Established in 2003 with its flagship summer conference, the Tin House Workshop offers in-person and online classes, seminars, and residencies. Through these programs, we aim to provide writers with various high-quality opportunities to develop their craft and sharpen their writing skills. Our programs are made stronger by having faculty, participants, staff, and readers who represent a multitude of backgrounds and experiences, and we seek to create a workshop community in which writers of all identities feel welcome, valued, safe, and heard.
We strive to provide everyone with the same access to opportunities, both in the application process and throughout our programs, and recognize the Workshop is an ever-changing space that evolves with its participants. We are committed to listening and responding to feedback from our community and to implementing changes necessary for development.
We believe that by nurturing the artist, we nurture the art.
Please get in touch with us at workshop@tinhouse.com
A list of our current readers can be found here.
Staff
2025-2026 Reading Fellows
Danielle received her MFA from the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and the Hudson Valley Writers Center. The winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award, her work appears or is forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, and the South Florida Poetry Journal, among others. She is the second daughter of a Puerto Rican landscaper and domestic worker and received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Jaye Nasir is a poet and fiction writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has recently appeared in The Suburban Review, Passport of Witness and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. Her short story chapbook, Full of Eyes Within, is available from The Fabulist, and her poetry is featured in the video game Life is Strange: Double Exposure. She is a Tin House Workshop alum, a 2025 Atticus Hotel writer in residence, and she will be a Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology resident in 2026. To pay the bills, she works in the service industry and tutors reading and writing.
Lane Michael Stanley is a transgender writer and filmmaker whose work explores queerness, class, restorative justice, grief, and healing. His writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Foglifter, The Ana, Brevity, The Belladonna, and HowlRound. Lane’s films and plays have been presented by 35 film festivals and 21 theaters in 25 states and four countries, and shown in soup kitchens, meditations gardens, addiction treatment centers, and San Quentin State Prison. He holds an MFA from UT Austin. Lane is currently hard at work on a novel and a memoir, both of which explore the healing and liberatory powers of BDSM. www.lanemichaelstanley.com.
Nicole P. Chulick is a Black, biracial writer with B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale, and an M.A. in Sociology and Education from Columbia Teachers College. Her fiction won the Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. Her nonfiction appears in midnight & indigo. Her work is supported by the 2025 Tin House Winter Workshop and the 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nicole serves on the advisory board of Inprint Houston, a non-profit that promotes the literary arts throughout her community.
Nina C. Peláez is a poet, essayist, and educator based in Maui, HI. A queer, neurodivergent adoptee and the daughter of a Cuban exile, Nina was born in Las Vegas, NV and raised in Brooklyn, NY. A Best New Poets nominee, Nina's writing often explores themes of displacement, diaspora, ecology, grief, and resilience and has been published in Narrative, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Rattle, Electric Literature, Swamp Pink, & others. She is the Associate Director of The Merwin Conservancy, is a mentor for The Adroit Journal, and is a 2025 Alumni Fellow for the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she holds and MFA in Poetry. She is seeking a publisher for her debut manuscript, and is working on a second poetry collection and a memoir-in-essays. She's so excited to be joining Tin House in this role.
Born and raised in México, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador is a poet, editor, and interpreter-translator. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee. She is a Tin House, Community of Writers, British Centre for Literary Translation, and Letras Latinas fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Punto de Partida, The McNeese Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She co-founded the University Network of Women Writers.