Doe Boyle

As an author, editor, and master teaching artist, Doe enjoys opportunities to engage with emerging and developing writers in the classroom and in workshops. Her programs and residencies are adaptable to learners aged 4 to 104-plus. They empower elementary, middle school, high school, and adult students to have faith in the truth of their own voices and experiences, and they encourage the lifelong habit of interpreting and recording that truth in creative writing. Doe offers interdisciplinary programs and residencies in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction in science and social studies, and personal narrative (essays, memoir, and journalling).

In schools, all of Doe's programs and workshops are aligned with K-12 standards-based learning goals, including Common Core standards (especially in language arts, visual arts, and theater) and Next Generation Science standards. Visual and dramatic arts components can add kinesthetic appeal to all programs. Among the custom-tailored options are bookmaking workshops, family folklore workshops, literature-based story-building workshops, and workshops designed to encourage and assist reluctant and beginning writers. Doe is also certified by the CT Center for Nonviolence as a Level One facilitator/teacher of the six principles of Kingian Nonviolence. Often working in collaboration with Arts for Learning/CT,  Doe joyfully works in partnerships with other teaching artists who excel in other disciplines such as dance, music, and theater. Doe was a 2023 recipient of a fellowship for artistic excellence in the literary arts from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Doe's newest books for young readers are science-based poetic picture books for readers aged 4-8. New in September 2020 were Heartbeat and Blink!, both in Albert Whitman & Company's science series, Imagine This! New in March 2021 was Hear the Wind Blow, a lyrical exploration of the visible and audible signs of the wind. New in September 2022 was Water, also in Albert Whitman's Imagine This! science series.