Below please find bios for all of our Harvardwood Highlights contributing writers. 



Dona Le '05 currently lives in Chicago, where she works as an editor and freelance writer.  After Harvard, she earned a master's degree in Popular Literature at trinity College Dublin, Ireland.  She is co-founder of Sibia Admissions and Sibia Proofreading.









Kim Bendheim '81

Dayna Wilkinson

Cristina Slattery



Stacey Collins, GSE ’00 is a screenwriter and published freelance journalist for the LA Times, Creative Screenwriting and national magazines. She earned a Master degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2000,  while working at the university as an administrator.  She’s a college instructor for creative writing classes.











David Yarbrough Cooper '88 has worn a number of hats since earning his A.B. in economics. He started his career in media as an intern with the Boston Celtics and Boston Magazine before becoming a reporter and editor for several major-market newspapers including The National Sports Daily, Philadelphia Inquirer, Orange County Register and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He also spent time as a producer and news editor on the Web sites of FOX Sports and ESPN. His latest blog, Style Points, focuses on men's fashion and style.



Robin U. Russin '79 is a professor of screenwriting at University of California, Riverside.  He studied art history and classics at Harvard, then attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he received a BA/MA in English Literature.  He returned to Rhode Island School of Design for an MFA in sculpture, but decided for still mysterious reasons to move to Los Angeles.  He received a second MFA in screenwriting at UCLA, where he taught for six years before joining the faculty at UCR to help build their new film program and their multi-disciplinary MFA in creative writing.  Robin has written and directed for film, TV and the stage, as well as having lectured internationally and written for various blogs and publications. He also continues to do sculptural portraits and show his other artwork, less frequently than he'd like.  Robin is the co-author of the books "Screenplay: Writing the Picture” and "Naked Playwriting.”






Michelle Wu '07 is a freelance writer and tea shop owner in Chicago.  In her days at Harvard, she developed a fondness for purple and green, delicate desserts, and long conversations over chai tea lattes.  These days, she can still be found indulging in all three at her Tea Loft on the north side of the City.