Director of the Writing Center:

Writing Consultants:

Vivian Aladren - Photo and bio to come soon!

Ben Apatoff

Ben Apatoff is a Sarah Lawrence College graduate who has taught at NJIT since 2018. He is the author Metallica: The $24.95 Book, and his next book, Body Count (33 1/3), will be released in fall 2023 by Bloomsbury.

David Bushman

David Bushman is the author of five books, most recently Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks (January 2023) and Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind 'The Place Beyond the Pines.' (June 2023). He spent two decades as a TV curator at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television + Radio). He teaches English and Communications at various colleges in the New York Metropolitan Area. He has run six NYC marathons and has seen 2001: A Space Odyssey at least twenty times.

Jennifer Fischl-Kruger

Jennifer Kruger began her career as a journalist writing for FinancialWorld Magazine, United Press International, and other business publications. After graduating from Rutgers-Newark with a masters in English in 2009, she taught developing writers at Morris County College. Teaching first year writing since 2012 and ENGL 99 for the past two years, she has worked with native speakers and English language learners at NJIT.

Bridget Hawkins

Bridget Hawkins is a New Jersey native, a writing educator, and a poet. She studied creative writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she earned a BFA, and at New York University, where she received her MFA. Her work was previously published in the anthology, It Occurs to Me I Am America, in 2018.

Nicole James - Photo and bio to come soon!

Peer Tutors:

• Abrar Awadeh
• Abdullah Elsobky
• Malika Sako

Peer Tutor Trainees:

• Jonathan Morse
• Marlene Muhammad
• Prajwal Shah
• Mark Shulkin
• Matthew Wei