Susannah Greenblatt is a creative writing professor, writing coach, and private tutor based in Brooklyn. During her years working in the publishing industry, Susannah stayed up late nights and weekends to write her own fiction and essays. In 2021, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing and moved to Madrid to work on her novel. Upon returning to the States, she began an MFA in Fiction at New York University as a Goldwater Fellow. She teaches Introduction to Prose and Poetry to NYU undergraduates and co-facilitates a writing workshop for patients at Coler Hospital. For Susannah, teaching is as much a creative pursuit as writing stories or novels. She brings imaginative thinking and inventiveness to her work with students, so that every reader can find their way into literature and every writer can find their voice.
As a writer herself, Susannah knows how to navigate the writing process on a deadline—from brainstorming to drafting to revision. She works closely with students and adults of all ages to tackle college essays, academic papers, and professional presentations. Throughout the process, her students hone tools and skills to become strong, clear, and confident writers. As a writing coach, Susannah is hands-on: she will open up the hood of a piece of writing to see what’s working and what can be tightened-up so that the prose runs smoothly. (It should be noted that, in typical New Yorker fashion, Susannah knows very little about actual cars.) Years of editorial work for magazines and book publishers sharpened Susannah’s eye for comma splices and dangling modifiers but also for the bigger picture: how a piece of writing can best reach its audience and achieve its purpose.
In addition to writing coaching, Susannah offers private tutoring in English (grammar, writing, literature, SAT, SAT II, AP), Spanish (conversation, reading, writing, SAT II, AP), history, and ELL. She also coaches test preparation for the SAT, ACT, and ISEE and helps students develop and enhance executive function skills.
Susannah is currently working on her first novel. In her free time she enjoys reading international literature in translation and chasing after her two-and-a-half-year-old niece.
Nicole DeMartino wanted to become a teacher since she was a child and gets to live out her dreams every day as a classroom teacher at PS 172 in Brooklyn, a model inclusion school, where she joined the faculty in 2013. In additional to her full time work with the NYC DOE, Nicole is also a part-time Director and Curriculum and Instruction Specialist with 
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Although deeply fond of his native Medellin, Colombia, Jose Bladimir Parra was always in love with American culture, including its traditions, its music, and the English language. He first dreamt about living in the United States when he was twelve-years-old: he thought living in the United States would be the ideal way to learn English. After graduating from the National University of Colombia as an Industrial Engineer, he worked in the engineering field for about eight years before moving to South Florida, where he soon became a family man.