Marta Szabo

Teaches at Authentic Writing

Marta Szabo was an editor in mass-market paperbacks then in magazines before setting out on a serious pursuit of yoga and meditation. Marta has pursued her art full throttle, picking up an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and completing two memoirs, The Guru Looked Good and The Imposters, both written almost entirely in the workshops. She posts current writing at Experiments in Memoir. In addition to offering regular Authentic Writing workshops in Woodstock and Manhattan, Marta has brought the program to young people, teaching in colleges and schools throughout the Hudson Valley. She has offered writing groups to cancer survivors, young leaders, at-risk teens, and young men in correctional facilities. She created “Ink in the Air,” a creative writing radio show, a public radio station in the Catskills. She teaches Authentic Writing at Omega Institute each year, co-founded the Woodstock Memoir Festival and continues to curate and host it at Omega.