THEA SULLIVAN, MFA, MAT, has been creating and teaching creative writing workshops for over ten years and coaching individual writing clients for the past seven. Her lively, innovative classes have helped hundreds of people connect with their innate creativity, trust their intuition, drop unnecessary struggle, and write with ease and joy. Through inspiring and engaging writing exercises and supportive group activities, she leads participants into the natural flow of writing and broadens their understanding of where that current can lead. In all of her teaching, Thea strives to communicate her message that everyone who wants to write does so for a reason, and that the journey of writing can be a call from the deepest part of the Self. She has taught in a wide variety of settings, including The Learning Annex, The Writing Salon, The Clockhouse Writers' Conference at Goddard College, The Academy of Art College, The Delancey Street Foundation, Two Sisters Bookshop, and The Mindful Body yoga studio. Thea also travels around the country bringing her message of creative flow to the corporate world through training sessions on intuitive business writing. Past clients include Computer Sciences Corporation and Quorum Consulting. Thea is an award-winning poet and writer whose poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in regional and national anthologies, magazines, and literary journals such as The Sun, The Cortland Review, Barrow Street, Calyx, Poems and Plays, Water-Stone, and 13th Moon. Her poetry has been singled out for recognition by nationally known poets Philip Levine and Jane Hirshfield in the National Writers' Union Poetry Competition and the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, respectively. She is Northern California's contributing editor for the New York poetry journal Barrow Street and a frequent public reader of her own work. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and both an undergraduate comparative literature degree and a Masters in Teaching from Brown University.