Writer

Overview   :   School-based Residencies   :   Professional Development   :   Other T&W Workshops   :   FAQ   :   Writers   :   Student Writing


J. Kathleen White

J. Kathleen White has taught art, writing, and cartooning residencies over the past 15 years through: Artists-in-the-Schools, Poets on the Prairie, Very Special Arts, Yellowstone Park, Artist’s Space, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Through T & W she has taught writing in every borough of New York City and acquired much experience with special education students. In 2006, she was poet-in-residence for Grover Cleveland High School Poetry Club and taught cartooning at the Forward School of Creative Writing in the Bronx.

Artist’s Books:
Foolish Jenny Stories, Witch Co., The Cure of the Mummy, Donna Della Caverna, The World Around Her, Collection of Vases, Crystal Clear, My Mind, Washboard Road, In Search of the She-Bear, The Weather Continues, Lots of Potential Tea Parlor but Lack of Focus Shooting Gallery, Cardboard Sale, The Scrambled Amulet.

Poetry Chapbooks:
Pieces of Cake, Bits of String from the Treasure, Oh, Puss.

Children’s Book:
The Komodo Dragon, Purgatory Pie Press, NYC.

Plays written and performed:
Charlotte Holmes in Space, Dodoji.

Film and Video:
Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde, Johnny, Flip-Flop, Mysteries of Nature.

Recent Art:
Eagle Mural, Theatre of New City; Art-in Odd-Places, Peephole Dioramas; More Than Words: The Art of the Illustrated Letter, Princeton Architectural Press; Making a short film on badminton with Kate Freer.

Contact T&W Programs

For more information about school-based writing residencies, professional development sessions, or other workshop opportunities, call 212-691-6590, e-mail workshops@twc.org, or send a fax to 212-675-0171.

T&W’s contract number with NYC’s Department of Education is 9975091.

Support T&W Today!

T&W is a nonprofit, charitable organization. Contributions to T&W are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. You can donate with a credit card through NYCharities.org’s secure server by clicking here to donate now!

Thank you for your support!

Become a T&W Writer

If you are a writer who wants to teach for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, download and fill out an Application Form and mail it with a copy of your résumé to: Workshops, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 520 Eighth Ave., Ste. 2020, New York, NY 10018. (Note: No résumés will be accepted without the completed application form.)

Writers working with T&W are experienced, dynamic teachers committed to inspiring the love of language and writing in their students. T&W writers have published their work in books and in national magazines such as the New Yorker, Essence, and the New York Review of Books, and they have won many awards. They offer students a glimpse into the life of a writer, and inspire the students to create their own literary art.