I am a recent Harvard graduate, the 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, and a recipient of Harvard’s Edward Eager Memorial Prize for creative writing. At Harvard, I studied Social Studies and the History of Art and Architecture with a secondary field in English, an interdisciplinary education that trained me to write across the humanities while thinking carefully about argument, structure, evidence, and voice. My own writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR,...
I am a recent Harvard graduate, the 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, and a recipient of Harvard’s Edward Eager Memorial Prize for creative writing. At Harvard, I studied Social Studies and the History of Art and Architecture with a secondary field in English, an interdisciplinary education that trained me to write across the humanities while thinking carefully about argument, structure, evidence, and voice. My own writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Ms. Magazine, The Journal, the Library of Congress blog, and other publications.
I have taught writing for several years in classrooms, workshops, and one-on-one settings. In Indianapolis Public Schools, I worked with students who were behind grade level, teaching creative writing alongside core academic subjects and helping students build confidence in skills that had often become sources of frustration. I have also privately coached high school students on boarding-school and college applications, including students applying to or attending institutions such as Phillips Academy Andover and Washington University in St. Louis.
My approach begins with the belief that strong writing should sound unmistakably like the student who wrote it. With college and boarding-school essays especially, I help students identify what is genuinely interesting about their experiences, develop a creative eye for the details that make those experiences vivid, and find the most effective structure for telling their story. From there, we work closely on the fundamentals—clarity, organization, specificity, revision, grammar, and sentence-level craft—so that students leave not only with a stronger essay, but with a stronger understanding of how to write.
