Out of all of the fictional characters I have gone on adventures with; Hermione Granger was my role model, starting at the age of 8. Some may scoff, but one must understand that Harry Potter was all I had. My parents—high school dropouts—never gave much importance to reading; my mother refused to read anything with “too many words” to me as a bedtime story, and my father read to me in a voice that dismissed the act itself as...

My chosen major of Writing, Literature and Publishing was influenced by my desire to become a mild-mannered editor by day and a coffe-drinking novelist at night--the Batman of the literary world, so to speak. I want to correct grammar errors and banish novelists to revision; I want to write tales of fantastic creatures and people, with the horrors that come with them. Only the program at Emerson has the focus and tools that I need to become this dual-natured beast...

My guidance counselor and my favorite English teacher wrote my letters of recommendation. My guidance counselor wrote about my...

Don't be intimidated by the high academic standards that people who come to Emerson have. The admissions here look for people who did...

The plan is to open up an editorial company to serve the needs of both publishing houses and self-published writers....

Emerson is a very interesting place--and I don't mean interesting in the bad way. There's always something quirky or...

For the career path I wanted (book publishing), Emerson is one of the few colleges in...