Biography

Nicholas(Nico) Penaranda is a Full time Lecturer in First Year Writing and Technical Writing at Howard University. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at American University in May 2022, and his Bachelor's degree in English with a focus in Creative Writing from James Madison University in 2020. As a graduate student, he earned honors in the study of Creative Writing. As an Undergraduate student, he earned honors Stanley Rhy Say Scholarship in 2019 and the Award for Excellence in the Study of African American Literature in 2020. He was a research intern in JMU's English department doing transcription work, and he has also worked as Writing Center tutor for almost five years at both JMU and AU.