class notes

Robert Wilder has taught students ranging in ages from six to sixty for fifteen years. He has been teaching English and Creative Writing at Santa Fe Preparatory School since 1996. He has been an artist-in-the-schools, a novel mentor with the London Arts Council, a guest lecturer in fiction and nonfiction, a writer-in-residence at Antioch College, and an instructor at the New York City Open Center and the Hollyhock Conference Center in Canada. He has been awarded an Inspirational Teacher citation from Century Bank and Outstanding Educator from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and was a winning coach in the New Mexico CultureNet Online Poetry WebSlam. His writing assignments and teaching methods have been featured in Classroom Notes Plus, published by the National Council of Teachers of English.

For more than ten years, Wilder has facilitated writing workshops with author Natalie Goldberg at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico, and elsewhere. He appears in Goldberg’s third book, Long Quiet Highway.