Naomi Guttman

At Hamilton College, Naomi has taught a variety of creative writing courses, including the introductory, intermediate, honors, and senior seminar workshops in fiction and poetry as well as the intermediate creative nonfiction workshop. Her literature courses include Food in Literature and Film and Poetry and Poetics, a course on prosody, form, and the evolution of English language poetries. 

She has given workshops under the auspices of the Old Forge Library Summer Writing Workshop; the Spoleto Study Abroad summer arts and humanities program; and at August Occasions, a summer workshop of  the Syracuse Downtown Writers’ Center. 

Her generative course, “Lyric Yoga” combines seated yoga postures and breathing techniques with creative writing exercises. She has given this workshop to groups at Hamilton College and St. Lawrence University; The Downtown Writers’ Center, Syracuse; the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. 

Lately, she has been inspired by Lynda Barry’s books, What It Is and Syllabus, which encourage writers to return to the spirit of play they had as children and to use drawing as a means of unlocking and unblocking our road to our original imaginations.