Gilsdorf is co-founder of GrubStreet's Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP), where he also leads creative writing workshops for adults in journalism, travel writing and essay writing, and poetry, as well as book promotion and writing career planning.

He has also taught creative writing and journalism at Louisiana State University, Emerson College, and Mediabistro.com.

He was the Dale Rogers Marshall Visiting Artist at Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.).
He teaches writing in public schools and community centers in the Boston and Providence area.
Gilsdorf is co-founder of GrubStreet's Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP), where he also leads creative writing workshops for adults in journalism, travel writing and essay writing, and poetry, as well as book promotion and writing career planning.
He has also taught creative writing and journalism at Louisiana State University, Emerson College, and Mediabistro.com.
He was the Dale Rogers Marshall Visiting Artist at Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.). He teaches writing in public schools and community centers in the Boston and Providence area.
Ethan Gilsdorf