Cleo graduated in 2017 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine where she pursued her interests to a BA in French Studies and Creative Writing. She is currently working as the Advancement Associate with the Institutional Advancement team at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a private Jewish day school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she helps to write communications materials, design websites and graphics, plan events, fundraise, maintain alumni relations, and liaise with the Board of Trustees. She is also pursuing her Master's degree in English at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She continues to write creative pieces every day.
She has extensive experience editing, copy-editing, and rewriting written work spanning from peer creative writing in classes, to grant proposals, letters, and marketing communications at the Heschel School, to Playbills and marketing materials at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She has also written freelance for Playbill and The Broadway Blog, where she wrote news articles and reviews. She has found her time learning to write, edit, and tutor at Colby's Farnham Writers' Center to be an excellent foundational base for her written work in the professional world.
Cleo has a passion for creative writing that manifests itself in overflowing journals and endless documents on her computer. A queer Sephardic Jewish woman, she writes short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, short personal vignettes, and is currently seeking representation for a fantasy novel for adults entitled Of Hestra. She has taken creative writing workshops in New York, and during the COVID-19 quarantine, led a writers' workshop with close friends, who kept one another sane. Her work has been published in Utterance Journal, Little Death Lit, Imperfectly Phenomenal Woman, Breathe Free Press, Typishly, and the Bread Loaf Journal.
Cleo is very hard working and driven by her thirst for knowledge. She loves great diners, hiking, Kesha, and swimming in frigid Maine coast waters. She is happiest when she is creating.
EDUCATION
Bread Loaf School of English, Class of 2027—future Master's Degree in English
Colby College, Class of 2017—Bachelor's Degree in French Studies and Creative Writing
Black Lives Matter—fund communities, not police
Cleo graduated in 2017 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine where she pursued her interests to a BA in French Studies and Creative Writing. She is currently working as the Advancement Associate with the Institutional Advancement team at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a private Jewish day school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she helps to write communications materials, design websites and graphics, plan events, fundraise, maintain alumni relations, and liaise with the Board of Trustees. She is also pursuing her Master's degree in English at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She continues to write creative pieces every day.
She has extensive experience editing, copy-editing, and rewriting written work spanning from peer creative writing in classes, to grant proposals, letters, and marketing communications at the Heschel School, to Playbills and marketing materials at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She has also written freelance for Playbill and The Broadway Blog, where she wrote news articles and reviews. She has found her time learning to write, edit, and tutor at Colby's Farnham Writers' Center to be an excellent foundational base for her written work in the professional world.
Cleo has a passion for creative writing that manifests itself in overflowing journals and endless documents on her computer. A queer Sephardic Jewish woman, she writes short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, short personal vignettes, and is currently seeking representation for a fantasy novel for adults entitled Of Hestra. She has taken creative writing workshops in New York, and during the COVID-19 quarantine, led a writers' workshop with close friends, who kept one another sane. Her work has been published in Utterance Journal, Little Death Lit, Imperfectly Phenomenal Woman, Breathe Free Press, Typishly, and the Bread Loaf Journal.
Cleo is very hard working and driven by her thirst for knowledge. She loves great diners, hiking, Kesha, and swimming in frigid Maine coast waters. She is happiest when she is creating.
EDUCATION
Bread Loaf School of English, Class of 2027—future Master's Degree in English
Colby College, Class of 2017—Bachelor's Degree in French Studies and Creative Writing
Black Lives Matter—fund communities, not police