Shanille Martin joined the Writopia team in 2019 as a WriCampia counselor and assistant instructor while studying Creative Writing at Purchase College. Since graduating in 2020, she has been teaching creative writing and debate workshops at camp and at Writopia full-time. Shanille has been published in various magazines and platforms such as Gandy Dancer, Newsweek, Italics Mine, and Submissions Magazine. She is a co-founder of Brown Sugar Literary Magazine, which publishes the marginalized voices of women of color. A former high school debate team captain, Shanille is thrilled to now teach both creative writing and debate at Writopia. She is currently working on her first novel.