Advanced Nonfiction: Finding Your Voice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Martha Nichols founded Talking Writing, a Boston-based digital literary site and nonprofit organization. She is the author of First-Person Journalism (Routledge, 2022), a textbook for teaching feature writing and personal nonfiction, and the editor of Into Sanity, an anthology of personal essays about mental illness (Talking Writing Books, 2019). She has been an editor at Women's Review of Books and Harvard Business Review (HBR). She is currently running a Substack newsletter called Inside Reader. Nichols has published in HBR, Utne Reader, Christian Science Monitor, Salon, and Brain, Child Magazine. She has edited many business books for Oxford University Press and was a reporter for Youth Today, a national newspaper on youth services.

June Carolyn Erlick's career focuses on her two great passions in life: journalism and Latin America. Erlick is the author of four books, A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Columbia's Invisible War (University of Texas Press, 2010), Disappeared, A Journalist Silenced (Seal Press, 2004), Telenovelas in Pan-Latino Context (Routledge, 2018), and Natural Disasters In Latin America and the Caribbean (Routledge 2021). She is also the editor of Journalists of Today: Profiles of Passion and Diversity, written with her 2019 Harvard Extension School proseminar students. She is the recipient of the 2023 Maria Moor Cabor Prize from Columbia University for lifetime service in journalism promoting understanding among the Americas. Erlick worked as a foreign correspondent in Colombia, Nicaragua, and Germany for 18 years, writing for publications such as the Miami Herald and Time magazine. She covered the Sandinista revolution, the war in El Salvador, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Erlick has been awarded two Fulbrights, one in Guatemala and one in Colombia. In 1977, she was awarded an Inter American Press Association (IAPA) fellowship to study and report from Colombia. She was given the James Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing Award in 2007. When not busy reading, writing, teaching, and traveling, Erlick loves to play Scrabble and is hooked on the online version, Lexulous.