Nadia Colburn, PhD, is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings traditional literary and creative writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. Align Your Story has a community of more than 30,000 mindful writers.
 
Nadia is the author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf. Her work appears in the anthology Anatomy of Silence: All the Sh**t That Gets in the Way of Speaking About Sexual Violence. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, LA Review of Books, Lion’s Roar, Spirituality & Health, The Sun, and Boston Globe Magazine.
 
Nadia holds a doctoral degree from Columbia University, and a bachelors degree from Harvard. She has taught literature and creative writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lesley College, Stonehill College, and the Grub Street Creative Writing Center. She has also taught at Northeastern University, where she has served as the Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Spirituality Dialogue and Service. Nadia has offered lectures and retreats at many places including Harvard Divinity School, Copper Beech Institute, and Mass Poetry Festival.