Professional writing services for all stages of life.

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Writing Tutoring

Personalized coaching to strengthen your creative, academic, or standardized test writing skills. As a former professor, I'll help you access greater opportunities with greater writing. All sessions are remote.

Admissions Essay Consulting

Artfully convey to admissions committees why you deserve a spot in their program. I've helped clients get into medical school, medical residency and post-graduate fellowships.

• Example Successful Medical School Personal Statement
• Example Successful Medical Residency Personal Statement

Writing for Employment

Resume, CV, and cover letter review and editing. Whether you are applying to a specific position or making general updates, I'll combine my writing skills with knowledge of the application process to help you land the job you want.

• Example General Resume (Entry-Level Engineer)
• Example Curriculum Vitae (Medical Professional)

Grantwriting

From researching opportunities to creating a submission timeline to writing and reviewing grant proposals, I can assist with the grantseeking process. I have secured individual, local, and federal grants up to half a million dollars.

• Example Successful Grant Proposal
• Example Successful Grant Report

Creative Consultations

I offer developmental feedback, line edits, and coaching on poetry, prose, script, gaming, and academic projects. As an award-winning writer, I can also write a commissioned piece for your next publication or production.

• "What They Don't See" (Zine)
• Deep Nostalgia (Essay)

Memoirs, Memorials & Legacy Writing

As an INELDA-trained end-of-life doula, I specialize in legacy work—projects that express your values and leave something for loved ones to cherish. This includes memoirs, obituaries, ethical wills, last letters, recipe books, poems, vigil planning, and much more.

About Me

I'm Ashanti, but call me Shan! I have over twelve years' experience writing, from poems to grant proposals. I was a writing professor for a combined three years and helped nonprofits secure funding for another three. I'm also a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow.

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