Brinson Leigh Kresge
teaching writing.
Kresge has taught creative writing for four years at the university level and works as a writing coach, working one-on-one with individuals eager to elevate their craft and manifest their creative vision. She strives to draw people back to their bodies, to notice themselves and the world around them as a foundation for informing whatever genre they are writing within.
She is a publishing writer and freelance editor who previously worked as a co-fiction editor at Ecotone and taught English in Osaka, Japan, for three years. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from Virginia Commonwealth University.
University Courses: Introduction to Creative Writing (CRW201), Evolution of Creative Writing (CRW203), Explorations in the Creative Process (FNA102), Fiction I (CRW207), and First-Year Student Seminar (UNI101).
Other Courses: Travel Collage, Crafting the Compressed (Flash Fiction), and Interdisciplinary Courses
For more information about upcoming classes, workshops, and retreats, visit: offerings & book online.
Education & Experience
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Revise and Submit Group, Wilmington, NC – 2024 - current
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Purple Pen Workshop, Wilmington, NC – 2025 - current
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Co-director of Sarus Festival for Site-specific and Experimental Art, Wilminton, NC – 2025
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MFA in Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC – 2022 - 2025
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Ecotone Literary Magazine, co-fiction editor (2023 - 2025); reader and fact-checker (2022 - 2023)
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Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference (3 days), Los Angeles, CA – Mar. 2025
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UNCW’s Writers Week (5 days), Wilmington, NC – 2022, 2023, & 2024
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AWP Conference (3 days), Kansas City, Kansas – February 2023
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North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) Conference (3 days), Wilmington, NC – Fall 2022
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Post-undergrad Writing Classes at VCU, CNF Form & Theory with Jessica Nelson (F 2021);
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Graduate Poetry and Advanced Poetry Workshops with Greg Donovan (S 2018 & F 2006)
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Other Classes, Fiction/CNF Workshop and Exploring Fiction with Elizabeth Ferris (F 2021 & S
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2021); Short Story Fiction Writing with James Fueglein (S 2021)
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English Teacher at ECC Foreign Language Institute and Aim Corporation, Osaka, Japan – 2008 - 2011
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BA, English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA – 2000 - 2006