Welcome to Harvard for Beginners.
About Beautiful Brain:I was the first person in my family to go to college. I attended Harvard-Radcliffe College sometime in the mid-nineties where I created a special concentration in Cultural Studies and wrote my senior honors thesis on black women's film. I then attended the University of Michigan law school and practiced corporate law (the kind where I help really rich corporations get really, really rich) for nearly a decade. This however did not make me myself rich.
Writing is my first (and most faithful) love. Since leaving the law (makes me sound like such a bad a** which I most definitely am not), I have been a Writers in the Schools Writer-in-Residence in the Houston public schools and an adjunct professor at the University of Houston law school. Currently, I am working on a memoir of my college years, entitled appropriately enough, Harvard for Beginners.
My fiction has been selected as a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Summer 2006 short fiction contest. I have attended writing workshops at Sewanee, Tin House, and Iowa and studied with Dorothy Allison, John Casey, Randall Kenan and ZZ Packer. I have also been awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
About the Harvard for Beginners blog:
What this blog will not be about:A. a guide to getting into Harvard;
B. how to stay in Harvard once you're there; or
C. a crazy send-up of those crazy college years.
What this blog will be about:
A. going to Harvard as a first generation college student;
B. my life after Harvard; and
C. other general musings on assorted topics as they flit into my under-worked yet overrated brain.
And, as if you can't tell already, this is my very first blog.
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