Our Team

All Three Muses educators are degree-holding, published writers with teaching experience, actively pursuing professional writing careers.

Andy Harrison

(She/her)

Writing interests

Andy’s favourite genre is Creative Nonfiction. She writes mostly about landscape and language (and sometimes both at once). She is interested in the memories and histories that are linked to places, and is also endlessly fascinated by etymology. To connect with Andy, offer her a language fact or a cool stone. Andy writes personal essays, landscape/nature writing, the occasional poem, and some academic work too.

Reach her at andy@threemuses.co.za.

Teaching experience

Diverse teaching experiences for ages 4-24 across preschools, youth groups, and tutorial classes. Tutored undergraduates in academic essay writing, taught BA tutorials in linguistics (2020 and 2021, head tutor at Rhodes University).

Education background

MPhil Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø, Norway

Honours Linguistics, Rhodes University

BA English Literature and Drama, University of Cape Town

TEFL Certification

Publications

Andy’s op-ed in defence of gender minorities was published in News 24, and her chapter on Southern African click languages (“The Phonology of Clicks”) will be published in the forthcoming academic collection Non-Pulmonic Consonants (published by the University of Toronto).

Nick Geffen

(He/they)

Writing interests

Under the pen name N. A. Dawn, Nick writes essays, poetry and speculative fiction concerned with the problem of human flourishing in a more-than-human universe.  He relishes stylish polemics with practical insights, insightful treatments of secular spirituality, and fresh blends of popular tropes and literary sensibilities.  Bait him into a chat anytime with a question about music, philosophy, mixed martial arts or tabletop roleplaying games.

Reach him at nick@threemuses.co.za.

Teaching experience

Unbroken 5-star tutor rating at Teach Me 2 (2014-2022), teaching students aged 6-26 on a private basis for subjects including languages, humanities, writing and study skills

Education background

BA English Literature and Environmental Science, University of Cape Town

TESOL Certificate, Cape Town TESOL Training Institute (CTTTI)

Publications

Nick’s poetry has appeared in the literary journal New Contrast (Spring 2019), and his fiction has been collected in the anthologies Disruption (2020) and Captive (2024), both from Short Story Day Africa.  In 2022, he represented South Africa in SSDA’s flagship pan-African Inkubator Writing Workshop.