Educator
April loves to teach writing - across age & genre. She has taught Advanced Playwriting at The New School, Poetry Workshops at The University of Chicago, Pratt Institute, and taught as a Poet-In-Residence at Codman Academy in Dorchester, MA. She has also taught creative writing to middle school students and teenagers in classrooms, museums, and aboard a topsail schooner. April currently teaches Creative Writing and Composition at Brooklyn College.
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