Marc Olmsted is a teacher at writers.com at writers.com. He possess expertise in poetry, creative writing, literature, teaching, fiction and 24 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Marc Olmsted is less a fellow student and more a teacher. He is both sympathetic and supportive without becoming a "yes-man". He challenges me, as a sentry would; but he isn't merely the guardian of some politically established border, he is truly the guardian of time and space."