Dana Mercer
Former deputy editor at Midwest Review and staff essayist. Has guided over 400 adult students through nonfiction book proposals, essays, and institutional reports.
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Former deputy editor at Midwest Review and staff essayist. Has guided over 400 adult students through nonfiction book proposals, essays, and institutional reports.
Former deputy editor at Midwest Review and staff essayist. Has guided over 400 adult students through nonfiction book proposals, essays, and institutional reports.
Teaches personal narrative and structure. His students have placed essays in The Sun, Orion Magazine, and regional anthologies.
Helps analysts, engineers, and nonprofit directors communicate complex data and civic arguments without relying on slide deck crutches.
Traditional writing programs spend months discussing abstract theory. We run our classrooms like professional editorial rooms: we read your draft on Tuesday, highlight what works and where the reader gets lost, and give you concrete line edits to test on Wednesday.
By the end of your cohort, you will have completed a real deliverable and developed an internal editor you can rely on for the rest of your career.