Genres: General Creative Nonfiction | Memoir
Bio: A GrubStreet instructor since 2007, Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, memoirist, essayist, critic, poet, teacher, performer, and nerd. He is the author of the award-winning travel memoir investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks (named a Massachusetts Center for the Book Mass Books Awards “Nonfiction Must-Read” and Nominated for the Alex Award by the Young Adult Library Services Association). Hundreds of his personal essays, articles, reviews, cultural commentaries, profiles, opinion pieces, short stories, and poems have appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Esquire, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon, O (the Oprah Magazine), Huffington Post, National Geographic, Brevity, Poetry, Poets & Writers, The Southern Review, North American Review, among other publications. Twice his work has been named "Notable" by The Best American Essays.