Who We Are: The Prose Pros
Located in Humanities 231, the Scripps Writing Center helps writers grow. We give students the chance to work on their writing by engaging in collaborative discussions, offering a comfortable space with tea, snacks, and a snazzy couch.
The Profs
Alongside our amazing peer tutors, the Scripps Writing Center hosts professional staff who work with students on their writing projects.
Adam Novy
Adam Novy lives in an apartment nobody can find. It鈥檚 at the far end of a driveway, around a corner, and behind another house. Delivery people have to look on Google Satellite to see it. His cat鈥檚 Instagram (Herschel_lacat) has more followers than you, and he鈥檚 working on it now, and listening to French pop from the Seventies. For more information on Adam, click here.
Glenn Simshaw
Glenn went into literature and writing partly because as a young child his mom read him nonsense poetry about elephants and telephones. He can roll his tongue but understands this ability doesn’t result from a single dominant gene. He likes big dogs and small dogs who think they’re big dogs. He enjoys chocolate chip cookies but believes Oreos are overrated. His favorite great aunt was among the world’s foremost authorities on antique doorknobs. His favorite novel is Don Quixote. For more information on Glenn, click here.
Pam Bromley
Pam lives in a yellow bungalow with her husband and her dachshund rescue pup. She grew up in Colorado hiking in the mountains, almost always with border collies. She is currently enthralled by the small-scale novels of the should-be-much-better-known Barbara Pym, especially Excellent Women and Quartet in Autumn. She thinks semicolons are vastly underrated. For more information on Pam, click here.
Current Tutors
Naima van Tyn
Naima is a born and raised Coloradan. She staunchly believes the correct pronunciation is Colo-RAD-o (not ROD), and predictably enjoys skiing, hiking, camping, playing music, and dancing (the last one is not Colorado specific). And yes, Na茂ma does have an umlaut over the 鈥渋鈥� in her name but is too unconfrontational to correct people when they write it wrong, which usually spirals her into a slight identity crisis. However, she will become confrontational and (let鈥檚 be real) very competitive when it comes to speed card games or Harry Potter trivia, so enter these activities at your own risk. She appreciates Oxford commas and parenthesis in sentences, but won鈥檛 judge you if you don鈥檛 use them (probably).
Kira Sekhar
Kira is from Chicago, Illinois (which she considers to be best city in the world, and she will repeatedly try to convince you of this). She is one of the Writing Center鈥檚 few resident STEM majors so make sure to bring her your most confusing Philosophy papers to keep her on her toes. In her free time, Kira takes lots of 0.5x photos, sings in an acapella group, sends Tiktoks of King Julian AI song covers to her friends, and walks on the treadmill at Tiernan while listening to Taylor Swift at full volume and dissociating. If you live in Browning you may occasionally see her sporting a headband or socks and sandals. Try to ignore it.
Katherine Robinson
Katherine believes cryptozoology is the cutting edge of natural science. She is most looking forward to indisputable evidence of the Loveland frogman, and hopes he wears a tweed jacket or similarly whimsical clothing. Though not a cryptid hunter herself, Katherine played with too many Monster High dolls as a child and is now the world鈥檚 foremost cryptid sartorial expert. Her favorite discoveries include a small, wet dinner jacket belonging to the fur-bearing trout and a surprisingly cozy cardigan left by the Mothman. Visit Katherine at the Writing Center for updates on her latest finds or to discuss her other questionable passions- CGI Barbie movies, true crime, UFO theories, or long LBJ biographies.
Brooke Kasl-Godley
Like every other person at the 5Cs, Brooke hails from the Bay Area. However, in her search for uniqueness, she insists that there’s no one else from her neck of woods–if you’re from Oakland-ish, she would like to be your friend. Some of her passions include proudly rejecting the STEM-Humanities dichotomy, mispronouncing the word nucleus, and developing a theory about the high frequency of twins in Claremont (any shared wisdom would be appreciated). Her biggest inspirations in life are Ms. Frizzle, the band boygenius, and elderly women who donate floral dresses to thrift stores. If you hear someone enthusiastically dealing animal facts or commenting on the climbability of a tree, it might be her.
Annie Bragdon
Shouts and Murmurs called Annie Bragdon 鈥淕od鈥檚 biggest and best joke yet.鈥� She was third runner-up in the American Baby of the Year contest in 2019 but unfortunately lost to the stunning Steed Bonaparte (he is not the emblem of European fortune that his name makes him out to be; it鈥檚 pronounced bonk-uh-duh-par-tah-dah). She is still not over this loss, and her therapist predicts she never will be. She has OJ Simpson鈥檚 license plate memorized a little bit more than the average person. But she isn鈥檛 the average person; she is a rapscallion through and through. Annie spends her free time organizing the biggest annual event the world has ever seen: Crinkle Fest.
Tess Frazer
Tess is a Texan and she owns that identity loud and proud. She loves clompin鈥� around in her boots, scootin鈥� around the dance floor, and ridin鈥� horses. She simply cannot stand when people wear cowboy boots outside of jeans (its acceptable with skirts, shorts, and dresses), but if you are wearin鈥� jeans make them boot cut, please. She used to hate country music, but after spending a summer two steppin鈥�, she now flirts with the idea of being a country music fan. She loves readin鈥� poetry, but struggles to write it. She is excited about workin鈥� with y鈥檃ll in the writing center! (Don鈥檛 worry, she doesn鈥檛 really have a Texan accent).
Becoming a Tutor
We hire a select number of new peer tutors each spring for the following academic year. If you like writing, want a job where you can work together with other Scripps students, and like the idea of having chocolate available throughout your shift, consider applying to join us. Prospective tutors are invited to learn more about the Writing Center by exploring this website and visiting the Writing Center itself during regular hours鈥攐bserving what we do and talking to current tutors. Peer tutors should be strong writers and responsible employees. The ideal tutor leads students to their own answers through active listening and careful questioning. While tutors do not edit papers, they must be able to explain grammar, punctuation, and usage conventions. If you are interested in becoming a Writing Center peer tutor, please contact Writing Center Director Glenn Simshaw.