Kristen offers online classes and tutoring services to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and adults. For writing, she teaches mostly at the high-school level, including the college application essay, literary analysis, and rhetoric. For literature, her two great loves are American short stories and Dante’s Divine Comedy.
In addition to her own classes, she is an adjunct professor at Thales College in the classical education department and teaches the Dante Atrium for the CiRCE Institute. She also gives talks and workshops and offers professional development on teaching, literature, and writing.
Kristen holds a Master of Arts in Teaching in Classical Education through the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University where she wrote her master’s thesis on Dante’s Divine Comedy. Kristen also graduated from the Circe Institute Apprenticeship program in 2019 and is a Circe-certified master classical teacher.
Kristen founded and directs the Triangle Classical Forum and is the brains and heart behind #100daysofDante, #everydayOvid, and #ThisIsEpic—Facebook groups to help people read classics in community.
Kristen taught several classes, including grammar, literature, poetics, and formal logic, for three years at Sola Gratia Classical Academy. Prior to that, she taught Lost Tools of Writing to middle school students online. Her crowning achievement is having homeschooled both of her children from kindergarten through 12th grade and having sent them off to pursue their dreams. Her daughter attends Saint Constantine College in Houston, Texas, and her son is training to be a professional ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London, England.
An established writer, Kristen’s published work can be found online at The Circe Institute, The Torrey Gazette, The Center for Lit, and Fathom Mag.
In her spare time (ha!), she writes fiction and poetry, lifts heavy weights, eats tacos, and gushes about Dido, Queen of Carthage, to anyone who will listen.
