• Telling true stories • Crafting memoir • Writing about people
• Communicating science to the public
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“The Lobster Sex Guy” and “Sushi Concierge” are TradeMarks of Trevor Corson.
Praise for Trevor’s Teaching
Key West Literary Seminar, Miles Frieden:
“Trevor Corson is an outstanding workshop leader. He led a weeklong class on narrative nonfiction, a class that included students from a wide array of backgrounds, abilities and approaches. He provided everyone with detailed attention and engaged class members in improving their own and others’ writing. He was unfailingly accessible and kind to students throughout. He also provided essential information about nonfiction writing, its mores and ethics, and how it differs from memoir, fiction and other forms of writing. We strongly recommend Trevor as a teacher and workshop leader.”
“I will always be immensely grateful for Trevor Corson’s class. I learned a lot about nonfiction writing techniques and skill and also enjoyed the class immensely. Trevor’s workshop approach fostered a true spirit of community amongst his students as he encouraged each of us to contribute to the critiquing process in a way that maximized the results for everyone. Trevor’s own critiques were insightful and, between the diagrams he would occasionally create on the board and his analysis of each student’s story, I left feeling that I had gained more from his workshop than I imagined possible. I carried with me the basic important fact that in order to write successful nonfiction, I have to tell a good story while unobtrusively weaving in verifiable information. I also very much appreciated the fact that Trevor treated every one of us as talented writers who one day could be fellow professionals, so that I left his class feeling both challenged and encouraged that we had all been given the tools to steer safely through writing our own real stories.”
President, Ocean Research and Education Foundation and Professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami:
“Trevor Corson delivered an insightful and constructive seminar providing crucial tips for helping our scientists and experts communicate their work to the public.”
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Trevor Corson is available in the New York City area on a private, individual basis to tutor a small number of high-school students eager to hone their writing skills. Trevor’s tutoring helps students conceive and execute robust, stand-out essays for high-school English classes and college applications, while also developing skills for the wide range of writing challenges they will face throughout their future education and careers.
Trevor himself graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, and prior to that graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. (sometimes described as "the Harvard of Washington prep schools"). Trevor was the managing editor of the literary magazine Transition, edited by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Harvard University, during the years it won three consecutive Alternative Press Awards for International Reporting and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in General Excellence. Trevor’s essays are published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic magazine, and his books, published by HarperCollins, are featured frequently on the main tables at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, including the worldwide pop-science bestseller The Secret Life of Lobsters and the New York Times Book Review Editors Choice The Story of Sushi. Trevor lived abroad in China and Japan for five years and is fluent in both languages.
“Our students were still talking about Trevor Corson the next day, which for teenagers is a sure sign of success. They loved his sense of humor and the immediate connection they felt with him.”
—Patt Moser
The Sidwell Friends School
Washington D.C.
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