Rick Allen Wilson is the senior English teacher at The Wheatley School where he teaches literature,
creative nonfiction, creative writing, and serves as the faculty editor for Vintage, Wheatley’s
nationally award-winning literary magazine which showcases dozens of student writers each
year. In 2019, Rick’s students won the top anthology award for WWBA’s “To Realize the
Future” competition in celebration of Walt Whitman’s birthday, and three of his students won
top honors in other categories. He is a Harvard Club Distinguished Educator, a PTO Teacher of
the Year, and he served on the English Cabinet for Syracuse University’s Project Advance
English for a decade, championing student access to post-secondary English writing studies
while concurrently enrolled in high school.
