About Us 

In the writing center, in the classroom, and in their work with teachers, Gwen and Martha focus on helping all kinds of students find methods and approaches that work for them. Thinking on the Page draws on the work Gwen and Martha have done in the classroom and the writing center, synthesizing best practices in order to provide students with the approaches, tools, and methods they need to engage actively with texts and produce interesting, challenging, rigorous writing they can be proud of.

Gwen Hyman is the Director of the Center for Writing at The Cooper Union in New York City. She has taught writing, in the classroom and one on one, to thousands of students, and has helped countless college professors and writing teachers develop their practices. Gwen earned her PhD in English at Columbia University and has taught writing, literature, cultural studies and food studies at the college level for nearly two decades. She is also the author of Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century Victorian Novel (Ohio UP) and the co-author, with chef Andrew Carmellini, of Urban Italian (Bloomsbury USA) and American Flavor (Ecco).

Martha Schulman holds an MFA from Columbia University and a Masters in Teaching from Brown University. She has taught writing and literature for over a decade to college and high school students in both the US and China. She directs the Cooper Union Summer Writing Program, which prepares rising and graduating high school seniors for college-level writing. At Cooper's Center for Writing, she serves as a Senior Writing Associate and a Writing Fellow: as well as working on-on-one with students, she mentors new writing teachers, leads classroom workshops, and works with professors across the curriculum on writing pedagogy. Her short stories, reviews, and essays have been published in the U.S. and Great Britain.