Brittany Collins

Brittany R. Collins, M.Ed, is an author and educator whose work explores literacy education, youth mental health, trauma-informed teaching, and disability. She is the Director of Education at Write the World, Inc., a 501(c)3 dedicated to closing opportunity gaps in writing education worldwide.

Brittany is also the author of Learning from Loss: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Supporting Grieving Students (Heinemann/Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt) and over 60 peer-reviewed and public-facing articles in The Washington Post; The Boston Globe; The Hechinger Report; Inside Higher Ed; Greater Good Magazine; Education Week; Edutopia; TeachThought; English Journal and Literacy & NCTE of the National Council of Teachers of English; NCTE’s Special Issues Volume, Trauma-Informed Teaching: Toward Responsive, Humanizing Classrooms; Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Usable Knowledge; Suleika Jaouad’s Isolation Journals; Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global; Brevity blog; Dana Farber Cancer Institute; and We Need Diverse Books, among other outlets. For two years, she worked as a Contributing Editor at Edutopia, where she covered the school leader beat. She’s also served as a Reviewer at Columbia University’s Teachers College Press; Harvard Review; New England Review; and English Teaching: Practice and Critique.

With a passion for connecting theory and practice in an effort to foster collaborative relationships with students, teachers, and writers, Brittany has enjoyed designing and delivering curricula, educational programming, and professional development sessions through Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education; Columbia University; New York University; Smith College; Boston University; PBS Learning Media; Heinemann Professional Development Services; Race Project Kansas City; the How Kids Learn Foundation; the Public Education and Business Coalition; Clark County Children’s Mental Health Consortium; Zionsville Community Schools; School Crisis Recovery and Renewal/National Child Traumatic Stress Network; the National Association of Social Workers (New York chapter); and the National Council for the Social Studies.

Currently, Brittany is working on two books: the first, Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning: A Practitioner’s Guide to Culturally Responsive and Social-Emotional Classrooms, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2025, co-authored w/ Dr. Marlee Bunch. The second, How We Bear It: Women with Invisible Illnesses on Learning to Live Within Limitation, explores women’s psychosocial experiences adapting to three underrepresented yet prevalent disabilities—dysautonomia, long COVID, and ME/CFS. For the latter, she is represented by Janklow & Nesbit Associates.

Brittany studied English and Education at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Creative Nonfiction at the Yale Writer’s Workshop; and holds a Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies from the Trauma Research Foundation. She earned her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, Social-Emotional Learning, from the University of Virginia.