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AIMEE SEIFF CHRISTIAN

WRITER, EDITOR, TEACHER

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T E A C H I N G   P H I L O SO P H Y

 

I believe in forming and participating in a community of writers. When I teach, I see myself as a facilitator and guide, committed to creating a supportive and productive atmosphere for writers of every level. I work to ensure that everyone has a voice and that both class and workshop are conducted in a way that works to be actively antiracist, antiableist, and inclusive. While no space can be truly safe, I pull my Master of Education, adult curriculum design training, and facilitation training together with the many books I’ve read like Craft in the Real World, The Antiracist Writing Workshop, and others, to better listen, observe, and create trust. My two-decade long career in community veterinary medicine has helped me understand historically excluded communities and how best to lift up voices of those who have been silenced for so long. I offer aid or waive tuition to my students who need it, especially to Black, queer, and disabled emerging writers. I work to help my students and clients build trust in the room, find their voices, and the confidence to use them.   

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E X P E R I E N C E
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GrubStreet, Boston's creative writing center

Instructor, July 2021-present

  • Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice

  • Getting Unstuck

  • The Many Voices of Memoir

  • Starting with Setting

  • Intro to the Personal Essay

  • 4 Weeks, 4 Essays

  • 6 Weeks, 6 Essays

  • Beginnings and Endings

  • Jumpstart Your Writing

  • Jumpstart Your Memoir

  • Memoir In Progress

  • Advanced Memoir Workshop

 

AimeeChristian.Net

Instructor and editor, July 2021-present​​

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  • The Perfectly Balanced Writing Group (3 hour)

  • Writing The Truer Version of Your Story (4 week, 6 week)

  • Intro to Writing for Creatives (6 week)

  • Personal Writing for Creatives (8 week)

  • Personal Writing for Creatives: Level II (8 week)

  • Personal Writing for Creatives: Level IIB (8 week)

  • Advanced Personal Writing Workshop (6 week intensive)

  • What My Body Knew: Writing the Connection Between Trauma and the Body I (6 week)

  • What My Body Knew: Writing the Connection Between Trauma and the Body II (6 week)

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Adoptee-only classes including:

  • Writing Personhood (4 week, 6 week, 10 week)

  • Essay Writing 1-day intensive, 2-day intensive

  • What My Body Knew (for adoptees) (6 week)

  • What My Body Knew II (for adoptees) (6 week)

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E D I T I N G   E X P E R I E N C E

Developmental editor of

  • essays

  • full length manuscripts

  • book coaching

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L I T E R A R Y  C I T I Z E N S H I P

  • Participant of two writing groups 2021-present

  • Memoir Incubator application reader and rater 2021-present

  • Submission committee member and reader for Tell-All Boston, a live on-stage literary reading series dedicated to memoir and personal essay 2021-2022

  • Creative nonfiction volunteer reading panel member of Hippocampus Magazine 2021-2022

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E D U C A T I O N

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Hedgebrook

Radical Craft Retreat with T Kira Māhealani Madden, 2022

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JaneFriedman.com

Four-part course on developmental editing with Allison K. Williams, 2021

 

GrubStreet, Boston's creative writing center

Memoir Incubator, 2020-2021

Master Memoir, Spring 2019, Fall 2019

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Leadstrat.com

The Effective Facilitator, week-long training, 2019

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Harvard University

Master of Education

Master of Arts

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Hunter College of the City University of New York

Bachelor of Arts

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R E C O G N I T I O N

Finalist, DeGroot Foundation’s Courage to Write Grant 2024

AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program Participant, Season 20, Spring 2024

Honorable Mention, The Fountain Magazine Essay Contest 2020-2021 

Unruly Retreat Recipient for womxn who parent, 2021 (postponed due to COVID)

Pauline Scheer Fellow at GrubStreet, Boston's creative writing center, 2020-2021 

Named Parent-Writer Author Fellow of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, 2020 (could not attend due to COVID)

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P U B L I C A T I O N S

See Publications

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