Elly specializes in helping clients get into their dream graduate school.  She also works with high school students applying to universities in Canada and the USA. She is a writer and educator based in Ottawa, Canada. Elly holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York City and a BA in Writing from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. 

Elly was awarded a Teaching Fellowship and taught in Columbia University’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Her love for teaching and supporting students grew further when she worked for four years as an Instructor in Columbia University’s Pre-College Creative Writing Program.

Her fiction has been featured in PRISM International Magazine, The Fiddlehead, and The New Quarterly. Elly has furthermore received grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council for the Arts.

Elly is currently completing the Certificate in College Counseling from UCLA. She’s passionate about supporting people to grow personally and professionally and loves to apply her editing skills to undergraduate and graduate admission essays and personal statements. When Elly isn’t writing or reading, she can be found visiting her family farm in Ferintosh, Alberta, where she grew up along the wheat fields, gravel roads, and her pet donkey, Murphy.