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Director Johnna Schmidt is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at University of Maryland. A fiction writer, Johnna has been at the Writers' House since its inception, and teaches Fiction as well as Writing for Publication. Johnna got her start in writing through an interest in theater, and has performed across the U.S. and previously lived and worked in San Francisco and New York City. Her awards include the American Writer's Program Intro to Journals Nomination in Fiction, and a sample of her recent work can be seen at washingtonart.com. Johnna resides in the D.C. area with her husband and two sons.

Assistant Director Vivianne Salgado is a native of Chile, and studied fiction for four years with Pia Barros at Ergo Sum, one of the most prolific literary workshops during Pinochet's dictatorship. Vivianne received an M.A. in Contemporary Latin American Literature from University of Maryland and is currently working toward her Ph.D. Vivianne is a fiction instructor at The Writers' House as well as the Young Scholars Program.

Assistant Director Zein El-Amine was born and raised in Lebanon and has lived in the U.S. since 1987. A graduate student in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, his poems have appeared in GYST, Pnumbra, DC Poets Against the War anthology, and Joybringer. He received first prize in the the Tallahassee Writers' Association Annual Poetry and Haiku Contest. He is a regular contributer of political essays to Left Turn Magazine which he co-founded and his editorials have appeared in the Washington Post and the Washington Spark. Zein is a poetry and fiction instructor at the Writers' House as well as the Young Scholars Program.