I coach both students and adults.

If you are an adult wanting to pitch an article to a publication or complete your memoir, please reach out, and we can see if we’re a good fit. It would be my privilege to walk alongside you as you tell your story.

If you’re a student (or the parent of one) working on your college essays, I can help take some of the stress out of the process. The essay writing process can be a fun and engaging part of the application. Students often come away with a new sense of who they are or what their goals are in life.

Here’s my general process:

• Writing an essay is a process of self-discovery. We don’t approach the essay with an agenda or an idea of the “perfect college application essay” in mind. I prefer students to come up with interesting possible topics first before even looking at the common app prompts. We will mine your life for raw material.
• The best essays are authentic, honest and vulnerable.
• Writing is a process. It begins with thinking about the idea, progresses to a draft of raw material, and then involves lots of editing and revising.

*** I maintain a strong standard of ethics. I will not write the essay for students. We will work together, and I will guide them in things like idea choice, structure and organization. The writing voice, diction, and style must be their own.

***I am not responsible for nor can guarantee acceptance into any particular schools, but the essay they produce will be the best possible essay they are capable of. Former students have gotten into top schools including Duke, Cornell, Columbia, Barnard, and Brown, to name a few.

***Students or parents are responsible for setting up sessions according to their own schedule/application deadlines so that they have adequate time to finish. While I do like to speak to parents on the free consult call, I prefer students to take ownership of their essays after that.

“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.” Richard Price