"Hello! My name is Stella and I am a graduate of UC Berkeley and a current MFA student in Creative Writing, Fiction at Colorado State University. While at UC Berkeley, I designed and taught a creative writing class to fellow UCB students. In that position, I worked with 18 students at a time and in 1 on 1 settings in office hours. During the summer of 2024, I worked as an instructor for the Academic Talent Development Program's Short Fiction Workshop, where I ran a class and workshop for a group of 7th- 12th graders. I volunteered through Splash at Berkeley for two years, where I taught classes on resumé crafting, short fiction, personal essays, and more.

In my creative writing classes, I prioritize a generative atmosphere so that students are constantly creating new work. I enjoy pairing prompts with lessons in order to target specific skills such as showing vs. telling, dialogue, meaningful details, capturing emotion, atmosphere, and action. I am happy to tailor prompts to the needs and interests of individual students, and am pleased that tutoring will allow me to work with students in this way. I have substantial experience in revision suggestions due to partaking in three semester-long courses on workshopping creative writing, an overseas writing workshop, and four years of writing and workshopping research essays.

I can help students at any point in the process of any written piece: idea generation, storyboarding, outlining, revising, and/or proofreading. I will ensure that college essays and personal statements depict my student as the asset that they are, highlighting their strengths in a unique fashion to make them unforgettable. For research essays, we will focus on building a strong foundation via outlining and introduction drafting then shift our focus to maintaining the focus of the piece in later drafts.

I firmly believe that every piece we work on will make you a better writer overall. I am thrilled to tailor this tutoring experience to your needs and preferences!" less...