Award-Winning Creative Writing Tutors serving Waterbury, CT

I'm a senior at CCSU with a Media Studies major and Creative Writing minor. I love reading, writing, history, psychology, and language in general!

...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 creatively, critically, and...

...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...

...passionate about addressing high order concerns (structure and argument) before low order ones (grammar and mechanics), to best help the cognition of my clients. Of course, I can make fun exercise worksheets for areas such as punctuation and grammar rules, too. Last summer I translated the skills I earned through this on-campus job to Vietnam...

Professor Kristin attended Stanford University and received a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Biological Sciences. Kristin received her M.F.A. in Fiction and Poetry from Fairfield University where she teaches English Literature. After college, she worked in science publishing at Pearson Education and The New York Times Digital, then became involved in microbiology...

...topics they once found difficult! I am also a native Spanish speaker and speak three languages fluently--English, Spanish, and Galician. In high school, I took AP/honors courses, and at Princeton, I am majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a certificate in Spanish. Please don't hesitate to contact me. I...

...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.

...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.