"I am an experienced college essay consultant and writing coach who is committed to supporting students in crafting thoughtful, compelling, and authentic personal statements for college and graduate school admissions. I provide my students with a structured process for drafting their essays and actionable steps for revision; my aim is to take the anxiety and guesswork out of the writing process so my students can bring their full selves to the page. I also support students on a range of academic writing projects, including IB Extended Essays, Theory of Knowledge, and capstone projects.

As a former college English professor, and now as a high school department chair and teacher, I have more than a decade of experience supporting high school and college students at multiple stages in their academic journeys. As a writing coach, my goal is to draw out the powerful stories that each of my students has to tell, whether they are working on college admissions essays or on medical, law, business, and graduate school personal statements. Whatever the context, I am passionate about helping each of my students craft a compelling story in their own authentic voice, a story that they deliver with clarity and conviction.

Students whose application essay writing I have supported have received admissions to Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Cornell, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Claremont McKenna, Pomona College, Skidmore, and Smith, among others.

I have taught literature and writing at Duke University, Emerson College, and the US Naval Academy. I am also a published scholar, a former academic journal assistant editor, and the recipient of numerous competitive fellowships. I know what it takes for students to succeed at the high school and college levels and beyond, and I pride myself on fostering one-on-one relationships through which my students build the writing, analytical, and critical thinking skills that will serve them long after they've moved on to the next phase of their lives." less...