In this workshop, participants will consider the necessity of environments for crafting compelling villains. Think of the apartment in Rosemary’s Baby, the restaurants and corporate offices in American Psycho, and Annie Wilkes’s house in Misery. Participants will engage in the workshop process and learn ways to create villains that grab an audience’s attention and move beyond cliché characters.

Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in Spring 2023.