I’m still pinching myself…to have found you as a teacher is simply a miracle. This is the first time in a while that I can see how to take my writing up another notch.

—Sher Laughlin

The essay you helped me with, “Of Birds and Bees and Spiders, Too” won 1st place in the Arapahoe Community College Literary Contest in the nonfiction category. (That was the essay about deciding whether or not to help a bumblebee out of a black widow spider’s web.) I incorporated your comments and apparently it worked! Thank you again for your spot-on editor’s eye!

—Joyce Deming

Sheila has the unique ability to take a writer’s rough narrative and identify the essence that could be developed into a worthwhile literary piece.  Sheila’s careful feedback helps writers revise, compress, and expand, whatever the piece needs. 

—Mary Ellen Talley

… this has been a very productive class for me. I’ve learned a lot and feel like I have grown a lot in the process.

—Margaret Riordon

You’re a generous and insightful teacher.

—Ray Soto