Arya Samuelson - Instructor

Arya Samuelson is winner of the CutBank’s 2019 Montana Prize in Non-Fiction, awarded by Cheryl Strayed. Her work has also been published in New Delta Review, Entropy, The Millions, and Hematopoiesis Press. She is a proud graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program from Mills College and has been studying at Lidia Yuknavitch’s school of Corporeal Writing since 2017. Arya has been teaching online writing classes throughout the global pandemic and has been honored to witness the transformations writing has catalyzed for her students.