Harvard PhD, High School and College Writing Tutor

Nathan R.

In the age of AI, nothing matters more than cultivating your specific writerly voice. Nothing matters more than shaping your unique perspective. Fortunately, as a Harvard professor and creative writer, this is my specialty.

Whether you need help with college admissions essays, SAT essays, or collegiate and creative writing, I will gingerly guide your braid of form (spelling, grammar, style) and content. I will help you transmute your personality onto your laptop, finding prose to match your brain. I will help you cut down hyperbole and cliché. I will help you bring your full self to a page that can only represent you in part. And in the process, I will not only help you present yourself to college admissions counselors and teachers and professors. I will help you become a better writer for the rest of your life.

I began to tutor writing to high-achieving high school students in Harvard's Pre-College program in 2018, where I taught journalism courses for six years, after publishing my first memoir. In 2023, after finishing my PhD at Harvard – where I became a three-time winner of the Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching undergraduate students – I began to teach student writing for UCSB and the Harvard Extension School online.

Although I work closely with students at many points in their their writing journeys, editing prose line by line, I am best fit to tutor high school/college/graduate students with basic command of English grammar and style. I work best with students who are ready to take their writing to the next level: by, say, applying to Ivy League universities, or working to improve grades in college writing courses.

If this sounds at all like you, I look forward to working with you soon!