Meet Liz
BIO
I have been indulging my love for language since I started writing fiction on my mother’s Canon typewriter at five years old. By day, I teach literature and writing to high schoolers; by night, I ghostwrite nonfiction books, romance novellas, and website copy, and edit short story and novel manuscripts by fellow aspiring writers. My short stories, prose poems, and essays have appeared in Sheepshead Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Black Fox Lit, Visitant Lit, and Bartleby Snopes, among other publications. You can find my musings about womanhood, parenthood, teacherhood, and writerhood at my blog, www.spurredgirl.com. If you are a Disney fan, check out my affiliate blog, www.lizzylovesdisney.com.
I reside on the northshore of Massachusetts with my history-buff husband, Disney-loving daughter, baseball-obsessed son, and two sweet, incessantly-barking dogs.
My Coaching Mentality
Whether you feel you were born to write, or consider your relationship with writing an uneasy one, you might benefit from a little coaching! A coach serves to guide and to encourage an individual as they work toward mastering a particular set of skills. In my role as a coach, I support others as they develop their writing skills.
I consider myself a writing coach when I lead a 9th grader through outlining their first analytical paper, offer a rising senior college essay writing help by modeling storytelling techniques, or suggest to an aspiring novelist how to raise the stakes for their protagonist.
As your writing coach, I want to convince you that your voice matters. I want to assist you in arranging language in clear, artistic ways so that your story resonates with the tones of your own lived experiences. I want to make you feel capable, creative, and persuasive as a writer, as I know that you embody all of these qualities.
My Experience
I hold a Master of Education, a Master of English, and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing, and I have taught English and Creative Writing at the high school level for over 20 years. My poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in nearly a dozen publications, and in 2016, one of my stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I have also ghostwritten and edited numerous nonfiction manuscripts and novels for fellow professionals.
I take pride in playing even a small part in the success of my students, whether they and I cultivate a long-term relationship over the course of several years of English tutoring, or share an intense couple of months focusing on college essay writing. I have witnessed most of them advance from standard English classes to AP classes by the time they graduate, as well as mature into scrutinizing readers and dauntless, articulate writers. Many of my students have also received acceptances from their dream schools, including…
- Auburn University
- Babson College
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Bucknell University
- Clemson University
- Colgate University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Fairfield University
- Gettysburg College
- James Madison University
- Marist College
- Northeastern University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Providence College
- Purdue University
- Quinnipiac University
- Tulane University
- University of Chicago
- University of Connecticut
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of New Hampshire
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Washington
- Villanova University
Professional Experience
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