Amy Whitcomb MS, MFAWriting Advisor

Amy’s essay editing expertise draws on five years as a writing tutor at three universities and four years as an editor and proofreader for science journals and academic publishers. In tutor and instructor roles, she has designed and delivered writing workshops, expanded academic support programming and materials, and worked with hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students belonging to a range of nationalities, ethnicities, races, language fluencies, ages, abilities, gender identities, religions, and educational aspirations in one-on-one and small group settings. Her instructional successes result from listening to the students and continually adapting her practices.

Amy holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Virginia, a master of science degree from the University of Idaho, and a master of fine arts degree also from the University of Idaho. In 2019, she was part of a UC Davis School of Medicine team honored with a Dean’s Team Award for Excellence in Inclusion.

Amy has mostly worked in natural resource management, scientific communication, and student support services. Getting paid to camp in national parks for weeks on end to survey wild lands is a work experience like no other. It has tested Amy’s curiosity, knowledge, interdependence, and wonder in a uniquely embodied way. These experiences tie back to her education as she double-majored in environmental studies and Spanish and completed an undergraduate thesis on renewable fuel use. She also presented at three conferences in graduate school and co-founded a writing residency at the university’s biological field station.

In her free time, Amy enjoys reading, writing, hiking, yoga, doing paper arts, hanging out with her family and pets, making food, going thrift store shopping, traveling, and bicycling.