Experienced English, Literature, and Writing Tutor

Claire L.

It's nice to meet you! I’m Claire, a college English professor, experienced writing tutor, and published creative writer. I hold an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College (4.0 GPA) and a BA in Creative Writing and Professional Writing and Rhetoric from Elon University (3.98 GPA). My fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and have been recognized by authors like Alejandro Varela and Claire Luchette, and I was recently longlisted in the top 3% for The Masters Review’s 2026 Best Emerging Writers.

I’ve worked with students since 2021, beginning as a Writing Center Consultant and Academic Mentor at Elon University and later becoming a Senior Tutor and Professor of English at SUNY Westchester Community College. I’ve worked hundreds of learners across age, English proficiency, and academic discipline through individual sessions, group sessions, and written feedback. In the classroom, I teach college composition and writing studio courses, in which I guide students through personal narratives, research proposals, annotated bibliographies, and analytical essays. I’ve also been a TESOL teaching assistant and led virtual creative writing workshops through the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute.

I specialize in academic and creative writing, literary and rhetorical analysis, and multimodal composition, with an emphasis on helping students develop and communicate thoughtful, compelling, and well-supported ideas across genres and media. My approach is collaborative and intellectually ambitious; I begin with a student’s questions and ideas, then use close reading, discussion, and targeted questions to help them turn observations into arguments, recognize connections across sources, and make purposeful choices about audience, structure, and style. I break difficult skills into manageable steps while promoting students' agency within their work.