I’m a true believer in the beauty and value of deep reading and writing. As a young person, I took comfort and strength from the pages of the imaginative fiction in which I hungrily buried myself. These stories have continued to support me throughout my life, both for the power and wisdom within and for the skills in language and focus that I gained in the quiet space of reading and creative writing.

I’ve created this program to support young people in a return to getting lost in the imaginal journey through the pages of a great book while simultaneously developing these essential skills. In addition, our tween students develop high-level writing and communication skills not through artificial English practices and forced essays but rather through the creative joy of learning to write their own stories, inspired by the genre fiction they read.

The intended result is a love of reading, writing, storytelling, and deep discussion of literature built from the ground up. This forms an ideal and holistic foundation for the rigors of higher-level academic studies in the humanities and language arts.