Nadia Kalman is the author of the novel, The Cosmopolitans, which won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize. She was a two-year Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has published stories in Subtropics, the Canadian magazine The Walrus, and elsewhere.

Nadia has also written for children, having collaborated on a social studies textbook and a collection of poems for emerging readers. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Moment magazine, the Jewish Review of Books, and Jewish Book World.

As a former English and ESL teacher in the New York public schools, Nadia is familiar with the workshop model, writing in the content areas, balanced literacy, genre study, and English Language Learning. She has also led PD sessions for teachers in these areas, and is currently an ESL consultant with the Center for Collaborative Education.

At T&W, Nadia has taught students how to write fiction, plays, memoirs, essays, and biographies; and has led professional development workshops on the teaching of journalism and the Common Core standards. She speaks Spanish and Russian