Team
Arthur Thuot
Arthur Thuot teaches storytelling at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute, which calls him a “dynamic and engaging” facilitator with an “insatiable curiosity and appetite for learning that is truly contagious.” Students of his six-week storytelling course at the University of British Columbia have called his teaching style “warm and encouraging” and “very inspiring.”
Arthur has been recognized for teaching excellence by departmental and university-wide awards from the University of Florida, where he taught professional communication as well as beginning, intermediate, and advanced fiction-writing. Previously, he served as a project director for a media agency in Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. He has helped organizations tell stories across a variety of sectors, including healthcare, energy, technology, government, aerospace, education, and financial services. His writing—which has covered stories ranging from groundbreaking Chinese traditional-medicine entrepreneurs to subversive Argentinian board games—has appeared in Pharmaceutical Executive, Oil & Gas Financial Journal, Corporate Board Member, Forbes Africa, Fortune en Español, and Bloomberg Businessweek México.
Arthur holds an MFA from the University of Florida and an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.
Elliot Reed
Elliot Reed teaches advanced literature for the International Baccalaureate and Storytelling for Business at an elite independent high school in South Florida. Since 2014, Elliot has taught writing at the University of Florida, Spokane Falls Community College, and Gonzaga University.
A Key to Treehouse Living, Elliot's first novel, received widespread acclaim from readers and book-sellers around the world. Treehouse was published by Tin House Books in the U.S. in 2018 and then Melville House in the U.K. The novel sold many thousands of copies in both hardback and paper. His novel received a Kirkus starred review, was long-listed for the Mark Twain Prize, and was nominated for numerous other awards. Elliot has written for BookPost, LitHub, Little Star, and The New York Times. His interviews about the craft of fiction writing have aired on KOPB radio in Portland, OR, and have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, The Columbia Missourian, and more.
Elliot holds an MFA from the University of Florida and a BA from the University of Missouri.