Derek Cressman.

TWH 2025 Teaching Assistant (Fiction)

Derek Cressman is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction based in Sacramento, California. Cressman wrote countless white papers, op-ed columns, fact sheets and reports as well as two books as part of a thirty-year career in public policy advocating for democracy issues such as campaign finance reform and voting rights. In 2019, he published his first novel, Reality™ 2048, which was a finalist in the Foreword Indies Book of the year and First Horizon American Fiction Book awards. Cressman is a graduate of the Stanford Online Certificate in Novel Writing.