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I'd love to hear from you about teaching, writing, living in a boarding school, reading, grammar, knitting, living with a huge dog, ice hockey, or anything else you'll take the time to write to me about. I will NEVER share your personal information with anybody. The form linked to the yellow button will add you to my mailing list so that I can keep you up to date on my happenings (including a weekly email letting you know about my most recent post). The bottom form will send me a single email.

PLEASE NOTE that the Hotchkiss server does not accept emails from my account, so any "@hotchkiss.org" email address will get "cleaned" from my email list. (Yes, getting cleaned is as final and deadly as it sounds!)

 

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WHAT I DO

I serve as a class dean and teach English to high schoolers at a boarding school in Connecticut. I’ve earned a Bachelor of Arts (Amherst College), an Education Master in Learning and Teaching (Harvard University Graduate School of Education), a Master of Arts in English (Bread Loaf School of English), and most recently a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a certificate in the online teaching of writing (Southern New Hampshire University).

As a writer, I hope to capture the complexity and joy of life in the New England boarding school world. On this site, I share what I know about trying to write fiction while deaning, teaching English, coaching, and doing the other tasks associated with helping to raise over six hundred other people’s children.

WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU

Teach                    Tutor

Revise                   Edit

Entertain             Enlighten

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  • cgardine@hotchkiss.org

Read my recent “Why” Wednesday Blog Posts

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  • 336. Why SFAH
  • NetGalley Review of The Ripple Effect
  • NetGalley Review of Far and Away
  • 335. Why BYODB
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