Award-Winning Creative Writing Tutors serving Portland, OR

...was supposed to do! I quickly understood what they meant. My whole life I've been a good student. I've taken challenging courses, studied, and tried my best. But getting good grades isn't the only thing that matters in life: it's applying intelligence to every situation that will carry you through life. This is what I teach and believe: how to use what you learn to help you succeed. I open minds, guiding people to think...

...a local high school, and as a Writing Center tutor and tutor in-residence at a local library for the entirety of my academic career. The majority of work I tutor in writing varies vastly, spanning from helping students brainstorm a short-length research paper to manuscript consultation for students enrolled in intermediate creative writing courses. In sum, I find complementing creative practice with critical analysis ideally fosters intellectual growth. I encourage creative thinking (as well as...

...SAT classes, TOEFL tutoring, and college essay consultations. It was a joy to put my ESL training to use and to learn how to identify talent in a student and make sure that individuality is manifest on the page. I have a passion for argumentative writing, creative writing, and vocabulary across al age groups. Getting clients excited about a well-finished product, especially the "non-writers," gives me the most satisfaction. I look forward to working with...

I believe an instructor should make a subject exciting and interesting. Being positive, pleasant,and humorous is important. Maya Angelou put it the right way: "People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them FEEL." My goal is to make a student feel something positive, then associate that with information. They won't forget that.

...at Yale University. Kristin received her M.F.A. in Fiction and Poetry from Fairfield University. She has experience in freelance journalism, travel writing, and science writing. As well as teaching English Literature at Fairfield University, She conducted college interviews for Stanford University admissions for two years and helped write and publish the New SAT Guide, New SAT Practice Tests 1 and 2, and The New PSAT Guide and Practice Tests for a major test prep publisher....

...later, I attended LaGuardia Community College and became a licensed veterinary technician, which means I am an animal nurse! My academic interests mostly relate to animals: zoology, evolutionary ecology, paleozoology, social evolution, and phylogenetics. I also love studying history, and will always assert that nothing happens in a historical vacuum. In my free time I do a lot of reading and a lot of writing, on topics ranging from politics to science to kids' cartoons.