Charity Hume is a writer and educator whose work bridges creative writing, psychology, and the art of teaching. A former Director of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program, she has spent four decades helping writers of all ages discover meaning and voice through story. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, HuffPost, Cultural Weekly, and Writers for Democratic Action.

Charity has led Know Thyself workshops for the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, the Writing Down the Soul retreat at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and the San Rafael Retreat Center. At The Huntington Library, she designed a daylong nonfiction workshop for WriteGirl and creative writing programs for the E.E. Ford Teaching Institute. Drawing on her background in Jungian depth psychology, she helps adults explore memory, creativity, and identity through writing as a form of self-discovery. Her approach invites reflection, imagination, and the courage to listen to one’s own inner voice.

Author of The Naked College Essay, Charity coaches high school, college, and graduate students to write with clarity, confidence, and symbolic depth. Her students have earned major scholarships—including the Gates Millennium at Harvard and the Barbara Horowitz Fellowship at Barnard—representing millions in academic awards. Her approach transforms the college essay into an act of self-understanding: by engaging deeply with the craft of writing at this turning point, students illuminate who they are and who they hope to become.

She is also the author of The Path to Creativity and The Wisdom in the Room: A Teacher’s Guide. Charity holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from New York University, where she taught as a Creative Writing Fellow. She also earned a Certificate in Memoir from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she continues to study Jungian Depth Psychology. She is an Associate Fellow at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.