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The winner of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, Peter graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks and his poems have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and ZYZZYVA. Currently, Peter is at work on his debut poetry collection, Century Flower. Peter has provided early editorial recognition to such luminaries as K-Ming Chang, Chen Chen, Richie Hofmann, Talin Tahajian, Ocean Vuong, Phillip B. Williams, and Shelley Wong, among others. Peter also founded the online Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, which connects high school writers from around the world with established poets, fiction writers, and memoirists, and founded three annual prize opportunities for emerging writers: the Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program in Poetry, and the Anthony Veasna So Scholars Program in Fiction. Peter has also previously taught creative writing to undergraduates at New York University and to middle school students in New York City. 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Elkamel’s debut chapbook, “Field of No Justice,” was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in 2021. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-lisa-hiton daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/9be75d39-191a-47a4-9c94-b58ece78b95e/Lisa+Hiton+ellipsis.jpg Our Team - Lisa Hiton - Lisa Hiton Lisa is a poet and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first book of poems, Afterfeast, was selected by Mary Jo Bang to win the Dorset Prize and is available from Tupelo Press. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University and an MEd in Arts in Education from Harvard University. She is the author of the chapbooks The Clearing (Black Lawrence Press) and Variation on Testimony (CutBank Literary). Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Linebreak, New South, NPR, and elsewhere. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College and has served as Poetry Editor for The Adroit Journal. A Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Best-in-Grade Award-winning educator, she is the Founder and Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-michael-lewis daily 0.75 2025-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/73f96cd8-92fe-45ff-9bd5-2fb105ef99c1/Michael+Lewis+Ellipsis.jpeg Our Team - Michael Lewis - Michael Lewis Michael is a songwriter and editor from Los Angeles, California. He has been commissioned to create musical works for Starbucks, Netflix, Pulse Publishing, and others. After an accelerated five semester course of study, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. 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They graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. At Brown, they won numerous Literary Arts prizes and served as a Social Science and Humanities Presidential Scholar. They are the author of the chapbook Exit Pastoral (YesYes Books, 2019) and their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Lambda Literary, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Tin House, and Washington Square Review, among others. As a teen writer, they received 7 Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Fiction, as well as a Best in Grade Award for Poetry and a nomination for the National Student Poet designation. They were also a 2018 National YoungArts Foundation Winner with Distinction in Creative Nonfiction and Winner in Poetry. As a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Aidan performed their poetry at the Kennedy Center and received the inaugural Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award. They’ve been recognized by the Adroit Journal’s Adroit Prizes and Djanikian Scholars opportunities, the Poetry Society of America, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards, Copper Nickel, Bennington Young Writers Awards, Princeton University’s Leonard Milberg Prize, and more. Aidan has worked as an associate editor for Sibling Rivalry Press, as a poetry staff reader and poetry mentor for the Adroit Journal, and as a poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine. High school writers who have worked with Aidan have achieved recognition through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and more. Aidan has taught for five consecutive summers at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities’ creative writing programs, and (when they aren’t working on their next manuscript!) they work as a Specialty Patient Innovation Analyst for CVS Health. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-erick-verran daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/6bbf18aa-c380-4c77-b007-756aecc9140d/Erick+Verran.png Our Team - Erick Verran - Erick Verran Erick is the author of Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021) and a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, the Harvard Review, Literary Matters, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Massachusetts Review, the Oxford Review of Books, and elsewhere. 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Their clients have matriculated to Barnard College, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Rice University, Stanford University, Swarthmore College, University of California - Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, and other top universities and colleges. In addition to their admissions work, Margaret is an award-winning poet and editor. Their writing has been nominated for Best New Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best of the Net, and has received recognition from the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom, the Guggenheim Museum, the Kenyon Review, Interlochen Center for the Arts, the California Institute of the Arts, Tin House, Cave Canem, and more. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-michelle-meyers daily 0.75 2025-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/290ca556-3639-49e0-a8f1-5f61ca9275d1/Michelle+Meyers+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Michelle Meyers - Michelle Meyers Michelle is a prose writer, playwright, and professor from Los Angeles. She published her debut novel, Glass Shatters, with She Writes Press in 2016, which was selected as an Editor’s Pick in Literary Fiction by Foreword Reviews and a finalist in Literary Fiction by the USA Best Book Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have also been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Adroit Journal, Juked, and Atticus Review, among others, and she has received honors from Glimmer Train, Wigleaf, and Ploughshares. Meyers was a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She received a B.A. in Literary Arts and Writing for Performance from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. Currently, Meyers is a professor in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-stephanie-chang daily 0.75 2025-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/55ae2af6-ab7e-49a5-b6c4-3f3cc7646950/Stephanie+Chang+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Stephanie Chang - Stephanie Chang Stephanie is a poet, editor, and independent curator from Vancouver, Canada. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Waxwing, Berkeley Poetry Review, Penn Review, The Offing, and WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press, 2023), among others. She is the author of the chapbook SAINTLESS (Sunset Press, 2022) and Night Market in Technicolor (Ghost City Press, 2020). She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of the UK, League of Canadian Poets, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Anthony Quinn Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, and more. In high school, she won three Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Flash Fiction and was the runner-up for The Kenyon Review’s 2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, judged by Richie Hofmann. Her poem, “Lotus Flower Kingdom,” won the 2021 Adroit Prize for Poetry, judged by Carl Phillips. It was selected for inclusion in the Best of the Net 2023, awarded a 2023 Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and has been taught at both the high school and collegiate level. She has worked as an Associate for The Kenyon Review, an Editorial Intern for Sundress Publications, and a Junior Editor at Sine Theta Magazine. She has also served as a National Juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and a poetry mentor for the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. She recently obtained her B.A. in Art History and English from Kenyon College, where she received the $60,000 S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize, the Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize (Best Short Fiction), and the George B. Ogden Award (Best Essay in English Prose). https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-matthew-igoe daily 0.75 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/f08ba2b1-5f70-43f0-a5ad-a6a8f830f6df/Matthew+Igoe+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Matthew Igoe - Matthew Igoe Matthew graduated from Princeton University in 2020 with a concentration in Religion and certificates in Creative Writing and Humanistic Studies. He currently lives in New York City, where he enjoys studying philosophy. He looks forward to helping students engage in the journey of self-discovery that, at its best, the college application process can be. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-michelle-taransky daily 0.75 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/7b56540c-1c7d-483e-a65a-023ef98b90fe/Michelle+Taransky+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Michelle Taransky - Michelle Taransky Michelle is a poet, fiction writer and teacher living outside Philadelphia. Taransky teaches creative writing and critical writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she won a Beltran Award for Innovative Teaching and Mentoring. She is the author of the poetry books Barn Burned, Then , selected by Marjorie Welish for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, and Sorry Was in the Woods, published by Omnidawn in 2013. She is also author of a poetry chapbook, Abramowitz-Goldberg (Factory Hollow Press, 2020). Taransky’s poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Fence, jubilat, and Huffington Post, among others. At Penn, she is a Contributing Editor for Jacket2, after serving as Reviews Editor from 2011-2024, and teaches Fiction and Nonfiction in the Master of Liberal Arts Program. Since 2009, she has hosted a reading series at Kelly Writers House, “But Company,” which pairs student writers with visiting authors. Previously, Taransky has taught writing at the University of Iowa, where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, as well as Temple University, the Iowa Young Writers Studio, the University of the Arts, and Kelly Writers House’s Summer Workshop for Young Writers. She has worked as Programs Coordinator at The Poetry Center of Chicago, a research assistant at the University of Iowa International Writing Program, and the Assistant to the Director at the Kelly Writers House. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-matthew-buxton daily 0.75 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/18296e07-a9be-4db7-ac59-e13fcbbd7162/Matthew+Buxton.png Our Team - Matthew Buxton - Matthew Buxton Matthew holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in English & Creative Writing from Emory University, as well as an M.F.A in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer with over seven years of editorial experience. As a former undergraduate instructor at the University of Michigan, a graduate coach at InGenius Prep, and a freelance essay tutor for many years, he knows the ins and outs of elite college admissions. He brings his own academic, liberal arts-fueled exploration and experimentation to his work helping students shape their applications. His clients have been accepted to Yale University, Northwestern University, Swarthmore College, Tufts University, Emory University, Ohio State (Law School), and other top colleges. Matthew is also an acclaimed poet with writing appearing in nationally recognized magazines like The Kenyon Review, The Spectacle, & Change, Court Green, and Frozen Sea, which nominated him for the Pushcart Prize. At the University of Michigan, he won multiple Hopwood Awards judged by acclaimed poets, including National Book Award winners. He has also received recognition from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and more. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-bianca-dagostino daily 0.75 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/faa796c8-c681-4c16-b372-81a52e462e4b/Bianca+Dagostino.png Our Team - Bianca Dagostino - BIANCA DAGOSTINO Bianca is a fiction author, a poet, an aspiring editor, and a lover of imaginative prose. She has a BS in Industrial Engineering, a BA in English, and she is currently a Master of Fine Arts student in fiction at the University of Central Florida. Bianca is the Managing Editor of Harbor Editions, the Editorial Intern at Riot in Your Throat Press, and a reader for The Florida Review. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-su-cho daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/7d21f640-7f99-4ff0-b957-9205600d4fa0/Su+Cho+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Su Cho - SU CHO Su Cho is the author of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin, 2022) which was selected for the 2021 National Poetry Series by Paige Lewis and featured in places like the New York Times Book Review and NPR. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets and published in places like New England Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, swamp pink, and elsewhere. Her editorial includes being Editor-in-Chief of Indiana Review, Cream City Review, and most recently served as guest editor at Poetry magazine. Born in South Korea and raised in Indiana, a recipient of the 2025 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, she currently resides in Nashville, TN where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-jade-song daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/50b86d4e-3340-4734-8c0e-d0082621aa86/Jade+Song+Ellipsis+%281%29.png Our Team - Jade Song - JADE SONG Jade Song is a writer, filmmaker, art director, and artist based in New York City. Her debut novel Chlorine was published by William Morrow. Lauded as "visionary and disturbing," Chlorine was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice and awarded the American Library Association Alex Award and the Writer's Center First Novel Prize. Named a Most Anticipated, Must Read, or Best Book of 2023 by Vanity Fair, Polygon, The Economist, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, and more, Chlorine has been translated into four languages. Song's second novel, I Love You Don’t Die, will be published on March 17, 2026, and their debut short story collection, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, is forthcoming in Spring 2027, both from William Morrow. Their short stories, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines like Joyland, Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Teen Vogue, and Electric Literature, among others. Song has received support and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Black List, which selected their adapted screenplay of Chlorine for its annual Writers Lab. Song has been a featured speaker or presenter at The Writer’s Center, Amherst College, The Miami Book Fair, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Montclair Literary Festival, IFC Theater, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Cornell University. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-k-ming-chang daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/dcbc638d-9211-4d78-916b-7f55ad26df0a/K-Ming+Chang+Ellipsis.png Our Team - K-Ming Chang - K-Ming Chang K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of the novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Otherwise Award. In 2021, her chapbook BONE HOUSE was published by Bull City Press. Her story collection GODS OF WANT (One World/Random House) won a Lambda Literary Award, and her books have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Korean, German, Turkish, and other languages. Her most recent books are ORGAN MEATS (One World, 2023) and a novella titled CECILIA (Coffee House Press, 2024). In 2026, she will be making her YA debut with STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE, a rom-com forthcoming from Holiday House. Her next novel, NEEDLEMOUTH, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on October 6, 2026. She has taught classes, led workshops, or done speaking engagements at Stanford University, Reed College, San Jose State University, Ithaca College, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Bowdoin College, Hendrix College, Kearny Street Workshop, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, Tin House, Catapult, Miami Book Fair, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts’ Low-Residency MFA Program, Bay Area Book Festival, Youth Empowerment Program at MinKwon, and elsewhere. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-lydia-hall daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/95d6bd03-9a26-4ede-8825-ec06648c5b83/IMG_0104+2.jpeg Our Team - Lydia Hall - Lydia Hall Lydia is a consultant specializing in college and graduate admissions, as well as an editor, a writer, and a teacher. She is passionate about amplifying people’s voices and helping them tell their own stories. Back in 2020, Lydia took a leap of faith and decided to venture into the world of admissions consulting; since then, she’s worked with dozens of students to help them craft admissions essays that top schools notice. From brainstorming through final polishing before submission, she guides people through the writing process, ensuring that they highlight their strengths as they apply to their dream schools. Lydia also provides support with interview prep, academic advising and pre-college prep, researching and selecting schools, putting together application packages, and other essential steps in the admissions journey. Along with her work in admissions consulting, Lydia has worked in lobbying, on Capitol Hill, in the non-profit world, as a consultant, and as a teacher. In all of these roles, her focus has been on helping people and organizations effectively and authentically tell their stories to the world. Lydia earned a master’s in sociology and education (concentration in education policy) in 2013 from Columbia University, Teachers College. In 2023, she completed TC’s certification program in college advising, and in 2025, she earned a certification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Her undergraduate degree is from Tufts University, where she remains actively involved in the alumni community as a member of the Tufts Admissions Network. She lives in Washington, D.C. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-alexander-castilla daily 0.75 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/86efcb6e-b28c-42aa-991d-ae39b15e1dad/Alexander+Castilla+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Alexander Castilla - Alexander Castilla Alexander Castilla, Ph.D. is a college counseling strategist, youth leadership coach, and educator with over fifteen years of experience guiding American and international students to highly selective and elite universities in the United States and abroad. An authoritative yet highly approachable advisor, Dr. Castilla is known for his straightforward guidance, innovative admissions strategies, and exceptional ability to connect with students and families. Dr. Castilla holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, where he specialized in political science and served as President of the Society for International Education. He also earned a master’s degree from New York University in International Studies of Education, with advanced, internship training in public diplomacy through the U.S. Department of State. Earlier in his career, his scholarly and policy work focused on international politics and identity, culminating in the publication of Re-imagining European Identity Politics in the 21st Century. His contributions to cultural diplomacy and security & peace studies have been supported and recognized by the U.S. State Department, the United Nations, UNESCO, and distinguished American and European universities & NGO’s. As a college counselor, Dr. Castilla has worked closely with and received training from former admissions officers at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Chicago, Stanford, and MIT. He has advised students, helping them gain admission to Ivy League institutions, top U.S. public universities, and leading global universities such as Oxford, McGill and the London School of Economics. A former sociology and international politics professor, Dr. Castilla brings an educator’s depth and a storyteller’s sensibility to the admissions process. As an Ivy League–trained communications specialist and published writer, he teaches students how to craft creative and convincing college essays that reflect intellectual curiosity, leadership, and purpose. Families value his emphasis on helping students find colleges that are genuinely the right fit. In addition to college admissions, he has mentored students and young professionals who have gone on to internships and leadership roles in public service, education, the arts, business, and STEM. This includes the U.S. Congress, U.S. State Department, United Nations, Teach for America, Peace Corps, Oxford University Press, and leading Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies such as McKinsey and Apple. Since 2014, he has also served as an alumni mentor at Columbia University’s Center for Career Education. Dr. Castilla is fluent in Spanish and has traveled extensively in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. His trusted reputation and global perspective make him a valued advisor to families seeking thoughtful, high-level academic and leadership guidance. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-kevin-paul daily 0.75 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/8e640046-6967-45f9-ab7b-988a7ee983eb/Kevin+Paul+Ellipsis.png Our Team - Kevin Paul - KEVIN PAUL Kevin grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, with degrees in French and Political Science. Afterward, he pursued a JD from Duke University School of Law. Kevin briefly worked in the legal field and quickly found he enjoyed studying law much more than practicing. He then transitioned into international higher education, where he discovered his true passion for helping students. Kevin has over 12 years of experience in university admissions, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He lived in Hong Kong for over a decade, where he helped local and international students with applications to undergraduate, Master's, MBA, law, and other graduate programs. As a former admissions officer, Kevin has recruited and reviewed applications from hundreds of students across the globe, bringing unique insights into the admissions process. His admissions experience includes working as the Assistant Director of Recruitment and Admissions for the University of Chicago Booth EMBA. Outside of work, he enjoys travel, reading, mastering the NYTimes Games section, and spending time with his partner and two dogs. https://www.ellipsiswriting.com/our-team-john-gardezi daily 0.75 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6214e549a304994acc31187c/273173fa-c23e-4c4c-b156-660caf959c73/John+Gardezi+Ellipsis.png Our Team - John Gardezi - JOHN GARDEZI John is an experienced college admissions advisor with more than 10 years of experience helping students navigate highly selective undergraduate and graduate admissions processes. He is a 2009 graduate of Harvard College, where he earned an A.B. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and previously served as an interviewer for the Harvard College Office of Admissions. John has advised students from a wide range of academic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, with successful outcomes at Ivy League institutions, top private universities, leading public flagships, and specialized design and graduate programs. His advising approach emphasizes thoughtful school selection, long-term academic planning, and, most notably, the development of application narratives that authentically reflect each student’s lived experiences, values, and intellectual curiosity. In addition to college advising, John has extensive experience coaching students on essays, interviews, summer planning, research opportunities, and competitive enrichment programs. Before working full-time in education, he was a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young (EY), advising Fortune 500 clients on communications and training initiatives. 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