Experience

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  Nancy Devine

  • San Francisco Bay Area, and everywhere else via Zoom

  • Private Tutor

    • Oct 2020 - Present
    • San Francisco Bay Area, and everywhere else via Zoom

    Students in high school, college, and beyond are curious and restless to learn new strategies for writing school assignments, creative writing craft, and techniques for improving essays, blogs, and articles. I love working with these students who come with a range of backgrounds and the desire to improve their writing. I teach the skills they need so they can finally say what they mean.

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  Tutor Corps

  • Language Arts Tutor

    • Jul 2020 - Apr 2021

    I work with high school students on essay writing, critical reading, and critical thinking strategies. I also work with them on nonfiction, fiction, and college essays.

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  Meyers Learning Center, Inc.

  • Saratoga, CA

  • Language Arts Tutor

    • Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
    • Saratoga, CA

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  Devine Writes

  • Palo Alto

  • Author and journalist

    • Jan 1990 - Jan 2018
    • Palo Alto

    Writer of articles, interviews, essays, short stories, and flash fiction for publications. Clients include San Francisco Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Santa Clara Magazine, WebMD, WebRN, Yoga Journal, HealthWeek Magazine, NurseWeek Magazine, Stanford University To Your Health Newsletter, Alternative Medicine Magazine, and Wordisseur.com, among others. I served as a college essay coach for Design Worlds for College. Literary journals include Revolution House, Magnitude 2.0., ElevenEleven, Catamaran Literary Reader, and Flash Fiction Forum.In my fiction work I love to draft big and burn away the excess, omitting needless words and deepening the conflict. A novel under construction grows, shrinks, and coalesces, slouching toward full expression. I also draft small, writing a flash fiction a day most days.

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  San Francisco State University

  • San Francisco

  • English Composition Instructor

    • Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
    • San Francisco

    English Composition Instructor for English 114, the accelerated class for freshmen students. I taught 20 students critical reading, critical thinking, and writing skills to write 4 academic essays, reflection pieces, and a final portfolio and reflection essay.

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  Writing Workouts

  • Palo Alto

  • Salon host

    • Aug 2010 - Aug 2011
    • Palo Alto

    I hosted a writing salon and workshop for advanced fiction writers. I prepared writing exercises, prompts, and craft discussions. I led the workshop process of close reading and constructive critiquing to support the next revision. We shared our writing, ideas, and piercing insights with each other. It was a blast, with free parking.

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  California Bankers Association

  • San Francisco, California

  • Director of Communications and Public Affairs

    • Jan 1986 - Jan 1990
    • San Francisco, California

    Responsible for all Association publications and media relations. Coordinated, managed, wrote, and edited all publications, including monthly newsletter, Annual Report, Community Service Report, and all Annual Convention promotional materials, plus Convention Program and daily newsletter delivered to hotel rooms of attendees. Wrote speeches for board members. Developed department budgets, sold advertising for publications, hired and worked with designers and printers, interviewed and hired new department staff.

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  Association of Western Hospitals

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Director of Communications & Publications

    • Jan 1981 - Jan 1985
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Managed the writing and production of department publications, including the newsletter, the AWH Journal Healthcare Forum, and Convention programs and newsletters. Wrote news items, feature articles, interviews, and essays. Developed advertising media kit, and sold advertising space for the magazine.

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  Singer Company

  • Sunnyvale

  • Editor

    • Jan 1978 - Jan 1980
    • Sunnyvale

    Wrote, edited, and produced the quarterly employee newsletter.