As a creative writer, I consistently stretch my creativity to write short stories, memoirs, poems, and more. In college, I learned about craft, form, and genre, as well as what makes characters captivating, what makes settings memorable, and what makes dialogue believable. I developed my writing skills and pushed my own boundaries. My peers and I participated in workshops where we read, edited, and discussed other students' written work. My experience receiving my professional and civic writing minor allowed me to write outside the world of creative fiction and focus more on rhetoric.