Field Studio is the place where academic writers cultivate the power of their writing. Field Studio brings the rigor and craft of MFA-level creative writing training into an academic context to help writers articulate their research with greater creativity, command, and resonance.
Field Studio was founded by Nomi Stone and Ro Skelton in 2022.
Nomi is an anthropologist and poet. Ro is a nonfiction writer and editor with a background in narrative journalism. Between them, they’ve spent careers moving between the demands of rigorous research and the demands of good writing and have come to believe those demands aren’t actually in conflict.
In 2025, Nomi and Ro moved from the United States to the Isle of Mull, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. There, in a cottage overlooking Tobermory Bay, they built a home for their young family––and a place to write.
That move shaped Field Studio as much as anything in their professional backgrounds. Good writing needs time and space that most academic careers don’t make room for. Field Studio exists to offer some of that same time and space to the writers we work with ––wherever they happen to be.
We’re not a retreat, and we don’t ask you to come to us. Field Studio is a faculty without walls: the same care, attention, and craft we found in our own writing life, built to meet you in yours.
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Co-Founder & Faculty
Nomi Stone is an award-winning anthropologist, poet, and professor whose most recent book, Pinelandia (UC Press, 2022), won four major prizes, including the Gold Medal in Politics/Economics at the Independent Press Awards. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, and Best American Poetry, and her previous collection, Kill Class, was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. She has a PhD from Columbia and is currently an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Texas, Dallas.
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Co-Founder & Faculty
Ro Skelton is an award-winning writer, former reporter, and editor whose investigative journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, and the Observer. She is currently working on her first book, Easement, a memoir about radical acts of gardening, and her fiction has won the Larry Levis Fellowship and appeared in Four Way Review and Waxwing.