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Daphne Santana Strassmann is an essayist and educator. She writes about the intangible spaces between her Latino heritage and American life. Her words have appeared in The Common literary magazine, Nixes Mate Review, Creative Nonfiction, GrubWrites, Tex{t}Mex, and several writing textbooks. She founded “Rekindle Your Craft,” a free writing workshop for writers of all levels and genres to explore their connection to storytelling. In addition to her role as a creative writing professor at MassArt, Strassmann is an instructor and board member at Grub Street creative writing center. Daphne also leads a memoir writing workshop at MIT, where she launched the group’s first publication during the pandemic.

At MassArt, Daphne Strassmann teaches Thinking Making Writing and Memoir & the Artist.