Tampa-based author Sheree L. Greer has been teaching for The Porch since 2020, when we started offering online classes due to the pandemic. She quickly became a Porch fan favorite and has racked up dozens of glowing testimonials; her class "You Are the Protagonist" regularly sells out. Sheree brings that magical mix of rigor, warmth, and personal investment to her teaching, and we're so lucky to work with her. We're looking forward to her visit to Nashville in just a few weeks; she'll be teaching "Writing as Experiment and Exploration" at the Porch House on Feb. 1 and reading, along with local writers Marianne Richmond, Tiffany Abreu, and Patricia Miltchell, at Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee on Jan. 31. We are grateful for financial support for Sheree's visit from South Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Amazon Literary Partnerships.

Porch cofounder Susannah Felts joined Greer on Zoom to talk about her path to teaching creative writing, the importance of practice over process, how to dig out of a stuck place in your writing, Greer's connection to the Floridian landscape, and more.