Management Team

WriteByNight owner Justine Tal Goldberg is an award-winning writer and editor of both fiction and nonfiction. Her short stories have appeared in Anomalous Press, Whiskey Island, Fringe Magazine, and other publications. Her journalistic work has appeared in Austin Monthly and the Texas Observer, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing and has provided writing instruction at Vassar College and Emerson College.

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WriteByNight co-founder David Duhr is Fiction Editor for the Texas Observer and Managing Editor at Fringe Magazine. He contributes regularly to the Dallas Morning News, Publishing Perspectives, the Observer and others.

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Consultants and Coaches

Steve Adams’s short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, Chicago Review, Quarterly West, and Georgetown Review. His memoir/creative nonfiction has been published in Willow Springs and The Pinch. He’s won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and The Bronx Writer’s Center “Chapter One” Contest. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and anthologized, and his plays and musicals have been produced in New York City and across the country. He’s judged writing competitions and grant applications, been a guest artist at The University of Texas, and guest lectured at NYU.

Steve studied creative nonfiction as a scholar at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony and creative coaching with Dr. Eric Maisel. He received his BA in Theater from The University of Texas and his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City. His work has been used as a teaching text at major universities as well as in the public high schools.

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Melodie Bolt earned an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Portland, Oregon and an MA in English Composition and Rhetoric from University of Michigan-Flint. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines like Aperçus Quarterly, Verse Wisconsin, Yellow Medicine Review, Deakin University’s Windmills and Gutter Eloquence. She taught Developmental Education Writing at Baker College in Flint, Michigan before moving to Austin and, no, she doesn’t miss the snow.

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Nick Courtright is the author of Punchline, a National Poetry Award finalist called “nothing short of a knockout” by Boston Review editor Timothy Donnelly. His writing has appeared in The Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The Iowa Review, among many others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, is available from Blue Hour Press. He’s Interviews Editor of the Austinist, and he teaches English, Humanities, and Philosophy at a number of local colleges and universities. An MFA-recipient at Texas State University, he now lives in East Austin with his wife and son. Find him on the internet at nickcourtright.com.

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Kenneth Hanner is the former national editor of The Washington Times, where he worked for 26 years, and the former managing editor of Human Events, where he also edited weekly newsletters written by Newt Gingrich and Robert Novak. He is the author of Inside the Washington Times and is currently a freelance editor and writer based in Austin.

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Nick Jarvis is a filmmaker who received his BA in Creative Writing from Metropolitan State College of Denver, then attended four years of film school at Colorado Film School, University of Colorado, where he was also a creative writing judge for the Denver School of the Performing Arts. He has sold one screenplay, and wrote and co-directed another feature, Pearman, to hit the film circuit in 2012. His short films have won awards at the Brooklyn International and Estes Park film festivals. He currently is a coverage provider and judge for the Austin Film Festival’s screenwriting competition.

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Daniel Kalder is the author of two books, Lost Cosmonaut (Scribner, 2006) and Strange Telescopes (Overlook, 2009). He is also a freelance journalist who contributes regularly to the Guardian and numerous other publications while also writing a weekly column for RIA- Novosti, the Russian State News Agency. Besides English, his writing has been published in German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish. Originally from Scotland, he lived in Moscow, Russia for ten years before moving to Austin in 2006. His website is www.danielkalder.com

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Brian Nicolet holds an MFA from the University of Houston and has received scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, New South, and Subtropics, among other places. In addition to WriteByNight, he works for UT and ACC. He writes and sleeps in South Austin.

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Cecily Sailer holds an MFA in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston and works as education programs manager for Badgerdog Literary Publishing, an Austin-based literary nonprofit dedicated to building literary communities in Central Texas. Cecily has had the great fortune to teach and coach writers of all skill levels–second language learners in South Korea, young writers in Houston elementary and high schools, undergraduates and community college students, and emerging writers in Austin and elsewhere. Cecily’s work has appeared in the Austin American-Statesman, Texas Monthly, The Austin Chronicle, and Gulf Coast. She is a native Texan with a weakness for big sky, NPR, and baseball.

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Andrew Tilin is an Austin-based writer. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Wired, and Men’s Journal, and he’s a contributing editor for Outside magazine. His most recent book, The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance Enhancing Drugs (Counterpoint), is now out in paperback.

Joel Weinbrot earned his PhD in English (with a Creative Writing dissertation) from Florida State University. His work has appeared in Barrelhouse, Golden Handcuffs Review, Caketrain, The Portland Review and elsewhere.

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