I am a student in the MFA Creative Writing program at The New School.  Before I was accepted, I took Alexandra's "Advanced Short Story Workshop" to get my writing sample as polished as possible.

Alexandra Shelley's course blew me away.  The course was intelligently structured, including both readings and workshopping of student work.  Alexandra is an expert with craft, particularly in the rare art of teaching it.  She fostered a friendly community in the classroom, with a group dinner after one class, and a public student reading she helped organized – for many of us, it was the first time we'd read at a podium in public.

Her comments on my work were top-notch – in fact I have no doubt her critique and my revisions helped me to get into the MFA program at The New School.

-Eric Taylor