Associate Director of Program Operations
Instructor

Madeline Ormenyi has been working at Writopia Lab since 2015, and currently is Writopia Lab's Associate Director of Program Operations as well as a Creative Writing and Essay Writing instructor. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University with a BA in English & Creative Writing. At Barnard, she stage managed, edited, and contributed to student-written theater productions. She writes primarily creative non-fiction and short fiction, and received recognition for her non-fiction writing at Barnard College with the Schwimmer Prize for the Humanities and the Estelle M. Allison Prize for Literature. Her work has been published in The New York Times and her short fiction pieces "Pink Tutu on a Barstool" and "Unnerving Houseplants" were published in Emerge Literary Journal in June 2021.