Don’t Sweat the Essay

Specialties

I work with students in person & around the world on Skype. Early acceptances to Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Author of many Huffington Post articles and a popular blog on college essays. I work with college and graduate school applicants on essays, personal statements, and application review. My goal is to help students get into their 1^st-​choice schools. Clients routinely accepted to Ivies, NYU, NYU Law, UCLA Med School, Washington University Med School & SUNYs. I’m a bestselling author, distinguished editor and college writing professor (Princeton, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Columbia, Brandeis). Highly skilled at helping people find their material, their writing voices, and their own words to express themselves persuasively and economically. Compassionate, insightful, good humored. Decades of experience working with young people in stressful situations. SEE testimonials on Don’t Sweat The Essay website.

History

Established in 2010.

Results speak for themselves: After 25 years of teaching writing at major universities and Ivy League colleges, and publishing 8 books, I turned to helping young people get use their writing skills to get into college and grad school. I work in person in the Northeast (Wash DC to Boston & Cape Cod) and on the phone and Skype with clients around the world, including Hong Kong and Cairo. I help students craft essays, whether they start with a single idea, a rough draft — or absolutely nothing. And when families want my help filling out applications or investigating schools, I’m there. See my website for testimonials from students and their parents. www​.DontSweatTheEssay​.com.

Meet the Business Owner

Elizabeth B.

Business Owner

Start with the testimonials on my Don’t Sweat the Essay website to learn who I am as an essay coach! Bestselling author of 5 novels and a classic book on writing fiction; editor of two anthologies, including the NYT Bestseller What My Mother Gave Me, in which 31 well-​known writers describe a favorite gift from their mothers. I’ve edited dozens of prominent writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Gordon, and Jane Smiley. I’ve edited fiction and nonfiction for individuals, major nonprofits (ACLU, etc.) and unions. Visiting writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Princeton, Columbia, Barnard, Swarthmore, Skidmore, Davidson Colleges. Author of hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles on a huge variety of subjects. For more about me, go to the Don’t Sweat the Essay website and read my bio.