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The UWC opened in 2008, staffed by a single adjunct faculty member serving only one school. Today, the UWC serves the entire A.T. Still University community and is staffed with a full-time director, a full-time assistant director, and a team of expert writing coaches. In addition to reviewing thousands of student submissions--from discussion posts to final dissertations--the UWC also offers targeted services for ESL writers, provides information on basic writing skills, and provides guidance on APA and AMA formats. For students in need of targeted instruction in using resources correctly or for those referred for misuse of sources, we offer a one-on-one tutorial on the proper use of sources in academic writing. Participation in the tutorial is offered only through referral.
The UWC is staffed with professional editors, writers, and educators who have experience in health care writing and editing, or TOEFL/ESL.
Katharine Boggess (Mississippi) is an educational consultant, editor, and technical writer with over 25 years' experience in the fields of medicine, archeology, and the energy sector. She holds a BA from Emory University and MA in special education with teaching licensure and TESOL endorsement from the University of New Mexico. Previous positions include QA manager in health information management, content editor for Stedman's Medical Word Books, and copy editor for Cambridge University Press.
Bernadette Discon (New Jersey) completed her MBA at the University of Phoenix and has 20+ years health care experience as an administrator of various departments in New York City hospitals. Additionally, she has 10 years experience managing medical transcriptionists and editors, both in America and overseas.
Melissa Lux (District of Columbia) is a copyeditor and writing coach focusing on health and public policy. She has a BA in English and history, an MA and all coursework for a PhD in English, and a master’s degree in social work. In previous professional lives, she taught college English in Milwaukee and was a community mental health worker in St. Louis.
Dr. Mary Barile (Missouri) is a writer and editor with more than 20 years of editing experience in medicine and health care at university and research levels. She has a PhD in theatre from the University of Missouri and is a working playwright.
Jaclyn Chupeck (New York) earned a master's degree in higher education from Purdue University and a master's in English from Oswego State University. She has been a writing and English instructor for more than a decade.
Meghan Cunningham (Florida) is a freelance word wrangler focused mostly on law, academics, and medicine, she has taught English for Minnesota State University, the DoD Equal Opportunity Management Institute, and Valencia College. She is the author of eight textbooks in developmental English and has helped develop learning management platforms for McGraw-Hill and Cengage.
Jen Esmay (Oregon) has been a freelance writer and editor for a number of publishers, such as McGraw Hill, Pearson Books, and others. Over the years, she has acquired a BA degree from Florida Intl University, a certificate in editing from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Lewis & Clark Law School. Jen has taught writing courses at Clover Park Community College and also worked as an analyst/editor and proofreader at the University of California San Francisco within the Department of Neurology.
Elane Johnson (Indiana) is a deaf activist and creator of “The Witty Biddy Vlog” on DeafChick.com. She has published nonfiction and fiction in Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Writer, Hippocampus, Superstition Review, Haunted Waters Press: Penny Fiction, Indystar.com, The East County Gazette, and Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly. Her award-winning “Aftermath” is featured in college creative writing curricula across the United States. She holds an MFA (with distinction) in Creative Nonfiction.
Dr. Dan Mikesa (South Carolina) earned a master’s degree and a doctorate from ATSU and changed his course from owning a fitness studio to being a professor and writing coach. His latest project has been the development of a continuing education program and the accompanying textbook that addresses exercise and chronic disease.
Matt Perakovich (Pennsylvania) is a writer and artist with twenty years of college teaching experience. In addition to teaching writing, he has designed courses in media theory, apocalyptic literature, and the coming-of-age novel. His poems and stories have been published in Commonwealth: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Watershed: A Journal of the Susquehanna, and Impost. He lives with his wife and two cats in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sabine Seiler (New York) earned her PhD in English at the State University of New York. She is a freelance translator and editor with more than 20 years experience in helping authors in the fields of philosophy, social science, and holistic health express complex facts and ideas in clear and engaging writing.
Dr. Elise Wormuth (Minnesota) is Professor Emerita of English at San Francisco State University, where she taught aspiring teachers of English/writing for 28 years and was Director of the Composition Program for 8 years. Before her academic career, she took a BA and worked as a scientific editor at University of California San Francisco and for scholars in Japan.
Katie Wyatt (Arkansas) is an editor and curriculum developer specializing in data science, geosciences, and geospatial information systems. Prior to her current roles, she worked for several years as the managing editor for a statewide arts and culture magazine and as a geosciences instructor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Tracey Lantz (North Carolina) has served as Director of the University Writing Center since 2019, after serving as the Assistant Director for almost 7 years. She has worked with many students, reviewing over 9,900 papers and helping finalize over 120 dissertations. In her previous ATSU life, she worked in the President’s Office for 14 years as Assistant to the President, Secretary to the Board, and the University’s Accreditation Liaison Officer, and was involved in many of ATSU’s major milestones. Tracey also served on several accreditation site visit, focused visit, and self-study steering committees. In addition, she was the liaison for the presidential search in 2012. Tracey has a BA in organizational management from Alderson-Broaddus College and an MBA from William Woods University.
Lee Ann Glowzenski (Pennsylvania) joined the UWC staff in August of 2023. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Duquesne University and has worked as both Assistant Director and Interim Director of Duquesne’s Writing Center. Since 2011, she has served as an editor of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, a foundational journal in writing center studies, where she focuses on supporting emerging scholars. Lee Ann is excited to join the ATSU community and work with writers during all stages of the writing process.