Maryann Gremillion

Maryann Gremillion is a writer and educator working with elementary schools, teachers, and nonprofits to build transformative communities. She taught elementary school for fifteen years in Houston where she discovered a passion for creative writing and integrating fine arts in the content areas.

Maryann also worked for twelve years as a writer-in-residence and then program director for Writers in the Schools (WITS) in Houston. Her work has been published in The Ekphrastic Review, Glass Mountain, Teachers and Writers magazine, and several local anthologies. She recently completed a book chapter with a colleague called Innovation and Integrity: Working

Through Disruption to Support Teachers in Their Roles as Literacy Educators. The book is Developing Knowledge Communities Through Partnerships For Literacy by Emerald Publishing.

Maryann has a passion for educating children about the Holocaust and investing her talent in developing unique mini-lessons and curricular materials for the Holocaust Garden of Hope and HRA18.