About

“The speaker in this case / is a middle-aged witch, me –” (Anne Sexton, Transformations)

My name is Laura D. May, and I’m currently a second-year master’s student at Oregon State University, studying rhetoric and composition. I’m currently teaching two sections of Writing 121 (Oregon’s first-year writing course, comparable to English 101 elsewhere).  Last year, I worked as a Graduate Administrator for The Center for Writing and Learning (OSU’s Writing Center).

From 2001-2007, I worked as an Instructional Technician III (also known as a Lead Consultant) at the Writing Center at Yakima Valley Community College (Yakima, Washington). There I assisted the director, trained and coached writing consultants, and tutored students.  I also classroom-taught parts of English 085: The Writing Workshop and DVREA 42: Developmental Reading.

In 1998, I completed a Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California). While there, I TA’d master’s-level courses such as Historical Theology and Old Testament Wisdom Literature. I also tutored fellow students for whom English was a second language (mainly Koreans).

From 1988 to 1996, I worked at a pre-press graphics company in Southern California as a proofreader, production supervisor, product development specialist, and technical writer.

In 1986, I finished my BA in English from California State University, Fullerton.

Before that, I was young. :)

I love words and writing, theology, and working with students. I’ve been fortunate in my life to do all three.

I chose the name “Cultivated Pages” for this blog because it conveys a lot of what’s important to me: 1) my work to help students cultivate their own writing, 2) my work to cultivate my own writing and thinking, 3) my love and study of Scripture (pages which were most definitely cultivated — by God, by servants of God, by commentators, exegetes, translators, pastors, and everyday women and men down through the centuries), and 4) the pages of this blog itself which help me cultivate all of the above.

My email address is ldmay7 at gmail dot com. Please comment on anything I post here.

Laura D. May