Allison Marchetti

Allison Marchetti is a high school English teacher and author based in Richmond, Virginia, with experience teaching in both public and independent schools, including inclusion, AP, and IB classrooms. A graduate of the University of Virginia and a past presenter at NCTE, she focuses on helping students develop authentic, passionate writing about a wide range of texts.

Marchetti is coauthor, with Rebekah O’Dell, of Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room Using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts, Beyond Literary Analysis: Teaching Students to Write with Passion and Authority About Any Text, and A Teacher’s Guide to Mentor Texts, 6–12: The Classroom Essentials Series. She also co-founded the popular blog Moving Writers, which offers ideas and resources for middle and high school writing instruction, with an emphasis on voice, authenticity, and real-world analysis.