
Welcome Our New Writing Specialist Liz Young

While at Wellesley, she served for three years on the college’s admissions committee where she vetted applications from across the country and witnessed first hand how powerfully a stand-out essay can transform an application.
Liz’s writing has been published broadly in both academic and literary venues. Poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and her first poetry collection was selected as a National Poetry Series finalist. Scholarly articles on Ovid, Vergil, Sappho and others have appeared in top peer-reviewed journals and her book on translation and the ancient Roman understanding of literary creativity was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Before teaching college, Liz taught English and Latin at the high school level. She takes great pleasure in helping students of this age cultivate the confidence, skills and intrinsic motivation they need to navigate the application process and likewise thrive in high school, college, and beyond.
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