CHARLOTTE GULLICK

Meet Your Retreat Leader: Charlotte Gullick

Charlotte Gullick is a novelist, essayist, editor, and beloved writing teacher whose work helps women reconnect with their inner lives and claim their voices with confidence and clarity. Known for her compassionate, deeply intuitive teaching style, Charlotte creates spaces where women feel safe enough to tell the truth—and brave enough to listen to it.

A first-generation college graduate, Charlotte understands firsthand what it means to build a life—and an identity—through language, imagination, and self-trust. Her writing and teaching explore the intersections of landscape, memory, family, and belonging, inviting writers to uncover meaning in both their stories and their lives.

Charlotte is the award-winning author of the novel By Way of Water, selected by Jayne Anne Phillips as the Grand Prize winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. Her nonfiction and essays have appeared in Brevity, The Rumpus, The Forge, Dogwood, and The Best of Brevity. Her honors include a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship for Fiction, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Ragdale, among others.

An acclaimed educator and mentor, Charlotte has received multiple teaching awards, including the Evergreen State College Teacher Excellence Award and the Gold Star for Teaching and Mentorship from American Short Fiction. She has served as Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Austin Community College and currently works in higher education leadership while continuing to teach and mentor writers around the country.

Charlotte believes that writing is not just a craft, but a way home—to insight, coherence, and self-understanding. In Provence, she brings decades of experience and a rare generosity of presence to guide women toward stories that feel true, alive, and deeply their own.

She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter.