Eric Gudas has been helping students succeed at their college admissions essays for more than ten years. He received a Ph.D. in English from UCLA, and he has taught first-year writing, American literature, and creative writing at UCLA, UC Davis, Occidental College, and Cal State Los Angeles. He is author of a book of poetry, and his own essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Raritan, Senses of Cinema, Reading in Translation, and other publications.