About the teacher
Andes is a writer and educator based in California. Their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published widely in prestigious journals such as Electric Literature . Their work has also been used to train Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini. As an instructor, they have lectured at Texas State University, been a teaching artist at the Austin Public Library Foundation, and tutored widely for over twenty years. Andes has a B.A. in Comparative Literature and an M.A. in English (Rhetoric and Composition). They have studied at Columbia University. They teach everything related to reading, writing, and literature to all ages, including AP English Literature, AP English Language, and SAT Reading and Writing. Andes instills organization, persistence, and effective communication skills in their students, using the Socratic method to challenge them so they may have successful futures. Andes has an immense passion for the English language and loves helping others discover its power.