Glenn Erick Miller talks about how teaching young adults to discover their voice allows them to find connectedness in the world around them.
Frank Morelli talks about how teaching in a "post truth" world inspired him to write about evaluating information to solve a mystery.
Laekan Zea Kemp talks about how she writes about her community and hopes it helps Latine readers find representation.
Diana Renn talks about how teaching students the writing process helps her in her own writing.
Teacher Bridget Farr writes about how the lives of her students inspire her stories.
Teacher Peter Kahn talks about how teaching poetry inspired him and led him to edit a poetry collection.
Author Margo Sorenson talks about helping students find those little moments of brilliance in each piece of writing.
Author Jeanne Walker Harvey talks about creating picture books with her 7th graders and how that inspired her own writing journey.
Author Mae Respicio talks about journals and how she and her students use them to fuel their writing.
Author Marcella Pixley talks about her classroom Writers' Guild and how it, and her students, have inspired her own writing.