CWC Staff

Directors:

Tiffany Rousculp is the director of the Community Writing Center. She also teaches writing and linguistics for the English Department at Salt Lake Community College where she landed 13 years ago after finishing graduate school in Los Angeles. It was in L.A. that she first worked with the community in writing: 25 junior high students in the barrios of South Central L.A writing a book about their school. She founded the CWC and has taken it on the road to other colleges/universities that are starting their own community writing centers based on this model. She writes and publishes in two vastly different worlds: academia and thinly-disguised memoir posing as fiction.

Melissa Helquist is the assistant director of the Community Writing Center and an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Salt Lake Community College. She would rather be backpacking than doing anything else; but when she’s stuck in the city she teaches, researches, and writes about more topics than she can keep up with. Her first book, "Wish for the Moon," a children’s book collaboration with her illustrator brother, is forthcoming.

Andrea Malouf is the CWC Advisory Committee coordinator. She also teaches writing for the English department at Salt Lake Community College. During the last 11 years, she’s worked as a magazine journalist, an editor-in-chief of five publications, an information designer, a literary arts volunteer with many local organizations, and a mom. She writes fiction and nonfiction when time permits (usually between midnight and 2 a.m.).

Writing Assistants:

The Writing Assistants at the CWC come from diverse backgrounds and have each receive extensive training in writing coaching, workshop facilitation, and collaboration.

Shannon Bell currently attends Salt Lake Community College with intentions of transferring to the University of Utah. Although she has many different interests, Shannon feels declaring a major to be a commitment she cannot keep. She spends her time as part time student, writing assistant and full time dog mom.

Chanel Earl spent eight years planning on becoming a professional saxophone player and then gave it all up to study John Milton and Kurt Vonnegut at the University of Utah. She graduated in December and now spends an inordinate amount of time sleeping and reading. Chanel is not a good speler, but is grateful for her husband, who graciously doubles as a live in proofreader.

Quintin Graves is an English Major at SLCC, a writing assistant/volunteer at the Community Writing Center, and the Current Events Chair for the SLCC Student Association. He spent four years as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps and plans to one day impress his parents by going to law school.

Jeremy Remy is a writer, writing assistant and freelance editor. He has come to accept that his pursuit of knowledge in the fields of English and philosophy may leave him poverty-stricken, but plans to write a dissertation on the philosophical implications of doing what one loves… if he can afford a pencil. Until then, Jeremy lives in a crooked house at an undisclosed location where he enjoys inscribing tales of a horrific nature. He is also quite mad.

Christina Smith has recently returned from her four year escape to Maryland where she earned a BA in her passion, English, focusing on rhetorical theory. Although she has always known that she wanted to live the Bohemian lifestyle of writing all day and thinking deep thoughts while staring into the depths of her hot chocolate, she has come to realize that, romantic as that notion may be, creditors still demand payment …on time. While working her dream job at the CWC, Christina is devising a devious plan to escape the “real world” by retuning to school to earn her MA or PhD in English as soon as possible.

Interns:

Brittany Berg recently graduated from SLCC and will be attending the University of Utah in the Fall. She is a Communications major and plans on going into PR or Interpersonal Communications. On her spare time Brittany loves to attend concerts (particularly the FREE one's at the Galavian Center), watch sporting events like the U of U football games, Bees Games and or Jazz Games, go to parties and watch movies with her friends. When she's not at the CWC, Brittany can be found serving tables at The Lazy Dog or helping customers at FedEx.

Justine Kinder is an English major at SLCC and will receive her AS Spring 2009. She will go on to the University of Utah for an MA in English with a minor in History. Justine enjoys writing, although only with a keyboard, and doesn't have the patience to write anything by hand. She is passionate about history and learning about different cultures and lifestyles. If she can figure out a way to support her family by learning, that will become her profession. Otherwise, teaching will most likely become her career. Justine loves big cities and hopes to one day live in Chicago where she can engulf her life with art, great food, and lots of music!

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