Charity Hume is a lifelong educator and writer. She is a contributing writer for The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, and Cultural Weekly. Her story “The Competition” was a finalist for the Winter 2022 Story Contest at Narrative Magazine. She has written three books: The Naked College Essay, The Path to Creativity, and The Wisdom in the Room: A Teacher’s Guide. A former director of the New York University Creative Writing Program, Charity earned a B.A. in English at Yale University, and an M.A. in English and creative writing at NYU as a creative writing fellow.
After four decades of teaching in high school and university settings, Charity now coaches writing to students of all ages, online and in person in LA. She is currently a psychoanalytic fellow at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, studying the therapeutic potential of writing. She offers workshops, individual coaching sessions, and academic counseling for students of all ages.