ROCKAWAY WRITERS’ WORKSHOP is dedicated to offering high-quality classes to writers of all backgrounds, interests, & levels of experience.
claire van winkle
founder & teacher
Claire Van Winkle is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary translator. Her poetry appears in publications including The Penn Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Oddville Press, Poor Yorick, No Dear, The Thieving Magpie, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Three Line Poetry, Sixfold, and anthologies by Rogue Scholars and Black Lawrence Press. Her short fiction, literary essays, and translation reviews have been featured in Belle Ombre, 3 Percent, and Prometheus Dreaming.
Claire has been the recipient of several honors including the inaugural Queens College Foundation Scholarship for Poetry Writing and Literary Translation, an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship, an American Academy of Poets Award, the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award, and the Lenore Lipstein Memorial Prize for Formal Poetry.
Claire received her MFA in Poetry Writing & Literary Translation from Queens College. She currently teaches writing, literature, and grammar at CUNY and SUNY, and runs a creative writing therapy group at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
jonathan kravetz teacher
Jonathan Kravetz is a playwright, novelist, short story, and flash fiction writer. His plays have been produced in New York, Brighton, Edinburgh, and Dallas.
His fiction has appeared in Cardinal Sins, The Furious Gazelle, Wilderness House Literary Review, Narrative Northeast, All the Sins, The Rappahannock Review, and Plasmotica. His essay entitled “The Shawshank Redemption Redemption” has recently been published in Drunk Monkeys. One of his short stories, “The David,” was adapted into a podcast by welltoldtales.com.
He has twice been a Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens College and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University.
Jonathan currently teaches Theater Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology.