He went … More than 90 percent of her students got into their first-choice schools. I want to leave on a positive note, so can you talk about three things you’re looking forward to? Coming Up: Authors! That horrific experience involving two senior athletes and 15-year old Lacy in the boy’s dorm after-hours wasn’t just a figment of her imagination. What—if any—research did you do as you wrote the book? Anne works with students who are laboring under the enormous ambitions and expectations of their parents. Crawford used her experiences as a tutor as the emotional heart for her new novel, "Early Decision." Books! She regularly dealt with overprotective parents and said she "secretly judged" them. NOTES ON SILENCING stirred so many emotions and gut-wrenching reactions. Crawford was an "application whisperer," a tutor-therapist to teenagers and their parents going through the daunting college admission process. Similarly, a query to a literary agent that is well-written, concise, and intelligent will often inspire the agent to have a look at the manuscript sample attached. Well, then you’ll be thrilled to learn that we will soon be meeting two wonderful authors who will be doing just that! What kind of healing can we impart? Join Facebook to connect with Sharon Lacy and others you may know. But my children are very small and I’m their primary caregiver, so I will see what bears out. Since 2013, Leslie has interviewed over 700 bestselling and debut authors on her author interview series. “If only there were someone who could help me with this,” you muse. "I think college admissions has become a national sport," said Carrie Feron, Crawford's editor, in a phone interview. You—and others who were affected—feared, too. She took pimply-faced peach fuzz boys under her wing, girls lacking ambition and passion and turned their personal mission statements into works of art, landing them into the school of their dreams. The Craziness in the College-Admission Process “Write what you know,” the adage goes. There are people in positions to block stories getting out, if they want to, and in the past, this has happened regularly. And while the stories are different, the experience is the same. [cover images retireved Amazon.com on 3.30.14]. Matt got into Colorado College, one of his top choices. Lacy Crawford. Plus, the school had a highly prized reputation to uphold with scores of influential, powerful, and elite alumni. Courtney Sullivan’s Commencement and The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan, what sets EARLY DECISION apart? Her “day jobs” included serving as senior editor at Narrative Magazine and director of the Burberry Foundation. I wanted to protect Lacy and the other girls at St. Paul’s, I wanted justice. That’s what Lacy Crawford ’96 does in her debut novel about college admissions. When the boys assaulted me, they stole from me. "A lightning (bolt) hit me," she said. Truly, I think it’s as simple as this. One of the aspects of the writing process that may apply to both the college essay hurdle and publishing in general is the idea of an ideal reader. “Erudite and devastating… Crawford's writing is astonishing… Notes on a Silencing is a purposefully named, brutal and brilliant retort to the asinine question of 'Why now? I did not want to let them hurt my parents, which meant not telling my parents. Her literary journalism includes profiles of Frank Conroy, Reynolds Price, and Shirley Hazzard. John Jacob Astor attended, so did Vanderbilts, Kennedys and Kerrys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRoFpnO2-c. Leslie Lindsay is the award-winning author of SPEAKING OF APRAXIA (Woodbine House, 2012) and former Mayo Clinic child/adolescent psychiatric R.N. That horrific experience caused such angst in me; I kept thinking of my redheaded girls being assaulted this way; it’s reprehensible. Students do a fair amount of writing, but most of it is expository, and when it comes time to write a compelling piece of first-person narrative, they’re stumped. Author of Early Decision. Give-a-ways! She resides in the Chicago area. Courtney Crowder covers the Chicago literary scene for Printers Row Journal. Then his parents called Lacy Crawford. When the elite boarding school, St. Paul’s, in New Hampshire was recently under investigation following extensive reports of sexual misconduct/abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought her past there was … Her parents were wealthy, but they hadn’t attended boarding school. In some regards, it reminds me of ANGRY HOUSEWIVES EATING BON BONS (Lorna Landvik, 2003). In talking to Hunter, Anne realizes that he was deeply moved by his summer trip to Montana, and that there is passion and unexplored interest there. Weather Alert in Lake and DuPage counties. He’s written a first draft that is boring and aimless, and it’s going to cost him in the admissions process. Any new books in the works? He said Crawford taught him a lot about writing, specifically how to edit his work, but she also directed him to be true to himself. Lacy lives in California with her husband and three children. I had long known that really good parents got caught up in the college application process in a way that made them crazy and made their kids crazy, and I wanted to say something about that. Third, I am energized by the work of social and racial justice advocates and educators who are providing the understanding and history to support the BLM movement and push for larger awareness of structural racism and social inequality. Second, I have a conversation planned with Kathy Giles, the current rector of St. Paul’s School, on July 21. How about when that writer is equally cool? Kathleen “Kathy” Carroll Giles became the Fourteenth Rector of St. Paul’s School on July 1, 2019. Many students believe that their future is on the line. The book follows Anne, a character modeled on Crawford, and her work with five Chicago-area students. Also the question of genre and gender in literary publishing, because I think few people are willing to grasp the nettle and address the complicated issues of subject, style and tone that inform the way the publishing world markets and receives books. In fact, an investigation ensued for similar allegations between 1948-1988 and then again in the more recent years. Cover art featured in Up the Staircase Quarterly May 2020; other photography featured in Another Chicago Magazine (ACM)and Brushfire Arts & Literature summer 2020, works of photography short-listed in Manhattan Review, forthcoming imagery in The Closed Eye Open spring 2021; poetry in Coffin Bell Journal in July 2020; the 2nd edition of SPEAKING OF APRAXIA available from Woodbine House later in 2020. Lacy’s criminal case is reopened. You fret over the experience, snapping knuckles and making lists, scratching things off. Laura McHugh is a debut psychological/family saga thriller writer from the heartland. This varies by school, of course, but often there is a simple reckoning of data points: school, state, class rank (percentile), standardized test scores (if applicable), and various leadership positions held (standout athletic, artistic achievements included). My parents did the very best they could. This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. After working on the piece for a while, Matt hit a wall. *WIP*: MINIATURE ETERNITIES: Interconnected stories of family, myth, instability, roots of despair, the invisible beauty of resillience, knitting a cohesive look at legacy, genetics, place. View Lacey Crawford, CPM LGBH’S profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Yes! They stole my health, my privacy, my sense of safety, my self-esteem. Both of your books have academia in common, but really, underneath lies wealth and privilege. The moment my pediatrician reported the crime, the school began working to remove me from its community. Henrietta's personal network of family, friends, associates & neighbors include Lacy Underwood, Luwann Underwood, Bethany Sumrall, Lance Underwood and Janie Williams. A must read for any parent about to send their kiddos off to the wild blue yonder,high school english teachers, and so many more! 11, 2017 8:44PM ET / Published Aug. 24, 2013 4:45AM ET She panicked and set to work filling out applications. She lives in Southern California with her family. We’d have had to hire a lawyer and go to war, and the school had promised to take me apart on the witness stand. For 15 years, Crawford helped teens think about where they wanted to go to college and what they wanted to study, editing their essays along the way. 1. Sharon Lacy is on Facebook. But I think it’s interesting that for so many years I had this side gig working with high school students who were trying to tell the truth about their lives. Can you describe this a little more? Leslie is a former child/adolescent psychiatric R.N. She guesses that what he would write about in an email to his girlfriend is far more likely to be something that matters to him, something that, for whatever reason, caused him to think or feel strongly. Why do we default to the male for answers? In Early Decision, debut novelist Lacy Crawford draws on 15 years of experience traveling the world as a highly sought-after private college counselor to illuminate the madness of college admissions. I believe that the sort of assault and silencing I experienced are common across institutions—companies, churches, schools, etc.—and not unique to privileged or so-called “elite” spaces. I got on that conveyor belt and I thought, 'This is how it begins.' Don’t you just love, love, love a good book? It’s also fair to say that my parents experienced a terrific amount of shame related to me and my choices, and that was devastating to me. Chessy Prout, an alumni, penned a memoir about her experience with the “Senior Salute.” But this school—well—they have a reputation to protect. And I sure as hell didn’t want to let them take my school. [email protected]. I was reminded, in part, of the work of Alexandra Robbins (THE OVERACHIEVERS, PLEDGED, and FRATERNITY), but those stories are more narrative nonfiction driven/journalistic whereas NOTES ON A SILENCING is memoir. Each is already set apart. First off, my littlest boy is due to start kindergarten in the fall. "There are years of preparation that go into applying to college, and it seems so complicated and hard on kids. Ronald James Brown (born March 31, 1961) is an American former athlete and American football wide receiver, winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics. I wanted to go back to being a high school kid, go back to being normal. Lacy’s other jobs have included high school English teacher, human and environmental rights campaigner, co-convener of a high-level international conference on pandemic influenza, Girl Friday to an English Lord, and Director of the Burberry Foundation. Most recently, she has served as head of school at Middlesex School … Compelling and haunting memoir of epic proportions of one young woman’s sexual assault, the lies, the cover-ups and fall-outs. Crawford started this work in 1997 when she took a job as an English teacher at a private school in Palo Alto, Calif., and assigned her students to write their college essays as homework. It happened, it was cruel, and every attempt to cover-up or ‘sweep it under the rug’ was made. Lacy Crawford spent years trying to find a word or phrase that would best describe what happened to her as a 15-year-old on the campus of St. Paul’s School. "I did not set out to explore my own 20s," she said. Once you get that taken care of, you realize your prized preschool has a waiting list. When she arrived, her friends informed her that she already had missed some deadlines for the city's best preschools. Ah yes…enter Lacy Crawford. This is a tale about those in power refusing to believe, then shaming, and finally, attempting to silence. Former private college counselor Lacy Crawford, author of 'Early Decision,' breaks down the craziness…, By focusing on the essay-writing process, Crawford explores how we find our own stories - and suggests that a successful campaign depends on revision., Lacy Crawford … This vile history runs rampant throughout the history of the school. I’d like to think that we can move toward an understanding of power structures that allows us to value the quality of our discourse around assault more than we value the (pretend) absence of assault. Leslie has been awarded as one of the top 1% reviewers on GoodReads and recognized by Jane Friedman as one of the most influential book reviewers. A counselor at his north suburban school told him "there was no way (his) essay would get him in anywhere.". That is tough. Similarly, we might say that the writer who is constantly imagining what an audience wants, rather than working to develop his or her own voice and prose, will deliver work that is flat. If one were to try to relate the publishing industry and college admissions, I’d say the query letter finds its closest analogue in the quick review that most applications receive in the earliest stages of the process. LACY CRAWFORD is an author of fiction and nonfiction, including the satire EARLY DECISION (Morrow, 2013) and the forthcoming memoir NOTES ON A SILENCING (Little, Brown, 2020). But it is clear to me that legacy institutions, which pride themselves on their history and, specifically, the relationships between current and former students, can be particularly dangerous in that they create an expectation that anyone who has trouble, who stumbles or is weak, does not belong. When the elite boarding school, St. Paul’s, in New Hampshire was recently under investigation following extensive reports of sexual misconduct/abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought her past there was behind her. Lacy Crawford will be in conversation with Kevin Kwan and Susan Burton on Thursday, July 16, at 4 p.m. on Facebook Live. For fifteen years she worked as an independent (read: discreet) college entrance mentor. Educated at Princeton and the University of Chicago, Lacy lives in California with her husband and two children. In addition, the personal essay is a form not often taught in high school. To contact the author: And I’m very eager to see how we can create change. To a survivor, silence is the same as assent to attack. I did not want them to take my advisors’ confidence in me, which meant not telling my teachers. Writers who are familiar with the challenge of the blank page can relate to this—imagine if it’s not just your novel that might fail, but your dreams of an adult life! I think of those spaces of where we exist—what we’ve inherited--as distinct from where we belong. college essay, and the wealthy kiddos that don’t (always) have a clue. I don’t think that’s going to happen, or at least not in the way we all might have hoped. She is at work on a memoir. Often they’ve had a lot of tutoring, and they have been taught that their own voices are not enough—that they always must be coached and improved upon, in order to be thought worthy. What is helpful, I think, for all of us, is if we can advance this conversation about power and silencing in institutions of all kinds, because often some of the greatest pain comes from those well-meaning members of a community who are upset but say nothing. My daughters are 13 and 15 years old, nearly the same age you were at the time. Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster, create publishing giant, Chicagoland best-sellers: 'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens holds on at No. at the Mayo Clinic and has attended writing classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northwestern University. more In 1990, when Lacy Crawford was a 15-year-old student at St. Paul’s — an elite New Hampshire boarding school whose alumni include John Kerry, Robert Mueller III, and the fictional … She sees, for the first time in decades, evidence that corroborates her memories. "She was able to eat through the fluff and pull out exactly what I wanted to say," he said. Notes on a Silencing helps to dispel the myth of the elite having all the power; #metoo & #BLM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRoFpnO2-c. Write On, Wednesday: Lacy Crawford, author of EARLY DECISION! Lacy has 7 jobs listed on their profile. Her cover art will be featured on Up the Staircase Quarterly in May 2020, other photography in Another Chicago Magazine (ACM) and Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal; poetry in the Coffin Bell Journal, and CNF in Semicolon Literary Magazine; the 2nd edition of SPEAKING OF APRAXIA will be available late this summer. Speaking from her home outside San Diego, Crawford is quick to point out that this isn't a memoir. And in the case of a school like St. Paul’s, they do have deep and prominent connections to every industry you can imagine, including politics and the media. Sitting there, staring at her months-old son, "who was lying on his back on the carpet like a bug, playing with his fingers," Crawford found inspiration for her book. Novelist Lacy Crawford Writes About Her Sexual Assault While She Was a Student at St. Paul’s School In her new memoir, Notes on a Silencing, Crawford reckons with how the school covered … Lacy, welcome and thank you so much for chatting about this very personal and heart-wrenching time. Then Crawford became a parent. I’m sorry about the age resonance. What if we gave up on the fantasy that bad things don’t happen, and instead worked to understand what does happen, and why? I was equally sympathetic and appalled by the tension in the book. I didn’t do any research at all. By Lacy Crawford, William Morrow, 304 pages, $25.99. Optional interviews notwithstanding, the essay is the single opportunity for expression offered by the application process, and that makes it singularly daunting. Lacy Crawford served as an independent college admissions counselor to the children of powerful clients in New York City, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London for fifteen years. NOTES ON SILENCING stirred so many emotions and gut-wrenching reactions. Follow Leslie A. Lindsay on WordPress.com. Under the glare … She is the first woman to lead the school in its history, and she and I are half a year into a careful, candid conversation about institutional change. She was the loving mother of Alicia (James) Crawford of Lake Forest, Jeffrey Lydon of New York City, and Dougl From the author of Notes on a Silencing, Lacy Crawford draws on 15 years of experience traveling the United States as a highly sought-after private college counselor to illuminate the madness of parents pursuing college … For a couple months, Crawford worked with Matt, who requested only his first name be used in this story due to concerns about professional repercussions. View Lacy Crawford’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Leslie Lindsay: Lacy, what do you think is the #1 reason college-bound seniors don’t know how to tackle that personal essay/mission statement? How does that work to woo an institution—or, in our writing pursuits—an agent? This was thirty years ago, almost, in a different world, and they did not have the information that I have now. A student who hits the mark in this initial review will be given much deeper consideration in admissions discussions. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row. VIDA is doing excellent work, and there are wonderful readers and writers grappling with the challenge, but in a sense we are all in thrall to a rapidly shifting marketplace, and it’s a scary and exciting time for those of us who love written stories. Lacey has 2 jobs listed on their profile. In 2010, she and her husband had their first son and moved to San Francisco. How can a smart, hard-working girl find herself in this kind of ‘trouble’ in the first place? These are just a few of the questions Lacy grapples with in NOTES ON SILENCING. Lacy, thank you so much for sharing such a traumatic experience. Lacy Crawford is the author of the novel Early Decision. Her "Reader's Response" was published in the September 2019 issue of Poets & Writers. As a mother myself, I can honestly say it begins with daycare. ARTIST'S STATEMENT: I have always been drawn to the gnawing questions that focus on identity and belonging, with (dis)placement and (up)rootedness. This doesn’t mean that a college application essay won’t be read if the student’s grades or scores aren’t high enough, but, all things being equal, a Pulitzer-worthy personal statement isn’t going to matter much to the admissions office at Harvard if a student is applying from the bottom quartile of his class. Much of keeping quiet was, I think, a not-fully-conscious sense that I would only lose more if I spoke up. Yes, the very one you fell in love with at a preschool fair, stuffing your plastic sway bag with every glossy brochure, every magnet, every bookmark. Leslie has been awarded one of the top 1% reviewers on GoodReads and recognized by Jane Friedman as one of the most influential book reviewers. But, no she didn’t write the essays for them, she merely sharpened their skills so they could write their own. Lacy Crawford served for fifteen years as a highly discreet independent college admissions counselor to the children of powerful clients in cities such as New York, Chicago, … Write it in an email, just don’t send it.” Talk about powerful! Leslie Lindsay is the award-winning author of SPEAKING OF APRAXIA (Woodbine House, 2020). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. My own shame was already so deep. You successfully pull that off by incorporating elements of classic literature into the story through Anne’s former aspirations as a journist/English major. In fact, a perfect example in EARLY DECISION is when Anne (the protagonist/admissions whisperer) is working with Hunter on his essay, “Just pretend you’re telling Nicole all about Montana. Her work has been published in Psychology Today: Runs in the Family Column (January 5 2021), Semicolon Literary Journal: Fall 2020, Pithead Chapel, Family Narrative Project, Common Ground Review, Cleaver Magazine (craft and CNF), The Awakenings Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ruminate's The Waking, Brave Voices Literary Magazine, Manifest-Station, among others. Now, she’s a mother and wife and writer with questions and worries: why is it okay for the rich and privileged to commit heinous acts and be protected? In addition to writing many memorable author profiles for Narrative, Crawford … Before the kid is even born! "I set out to understand how parents get caught up in the trap of the process, the admissions race, and what it is doing to young people.". NOTES ON SILENCING (Little, Brown: July 7 2020) is exactly that–a plea to have one’s tender, vulnerable voice heard. I’m always writing, but I had no intention of writing about my experience at St. Paul’s until I joined the state investigation in 2017 and learned (or had confirmed, really) what had been done to me. Check Full Background Report to see possible education history including where and when they attending high school and college, ... barbara crawford… And I was right. Follow her bookstagram posts @leslielindsay1. And how are we as young women socialized to agree with those in power and authority? I think every survivor has her own needs and will determine her own path to “healing,” whatever that might look like for her, whatever might be possible. Interviews! Can you talk about that, please? Lacy Crawford's new book is a look inside the business of shuttling from McMansion to McMansion, helping terrified 17-year-olds bare their souls on an application form as sterile as a tax … The college essay is hardly a robust vehicle for that sort of thing, but it’s a rite of passage. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Lizzie Crocker Updated Jul. "Naturally when people read it, they felt like I was attacking folks when really I was inspired by the idea of trying to make things better," the 25-year-old said during a phone interview. Crawford was an "application whisperer," a tutor-therapist to teenagers and their parents going through the daunting college admission process. I am thrilled and honored to have Lacy Crawford, author of EARLY DECISION (William Morrow, 2013) with us today. How can a young woman *not* speak up when something so vile happens to her? Here’s what Ms. Crawford has to say about the process–and more! Leslie Lindsay: Likening that personal college essay to the publishing world, would you say that’s almost synonymous to the query letter? You worried that all you had worked for would be stripped away, others would think differently of you, and perhaps you would not be allowed to excel. Lacy wasn’t a ‘legacy’ at St. Paul’s. Years later, in 2015-2016, the local police in Concord, New Hampshire, began investigating a new rape case at St. Paul’s that led them back to the rape of Lacy Crawford in 1991. "I stepped through the looking glass. Detectives asked for victims to come forward, and though it had been decades, Lacy threw her hat into the ring. The most consistently successful commercial writers, regardless of genre, know exactly what their audiences want, but they know how to deploy their own distinctive voice, diction, and particular dramatic tools. Since 2013, Leslie has interviewed over 700 bestselling and debut authors on her author interview series. I think there’s so much fear, here. Yes, I am talking about the frenzy to get your child into the best learning institution ever. Her day jobs included serving as senior editor at Narrative and as director of the Burberry Foundation. Leslie Lindsay: Thanks again for being with us today—it was quite illuminating! REPRESENTATION: Murray Weiss at Catalyst Literary Management. In terms of fiction featuring boarding schools, Carol Goodman‘s work came to mind. While there aren’t exactly any answers, we come away from the narrative with a sense of duty: to expose and protect. What if authenticity and transparency were our goals? There are other examples like this, unfortunately. She wants him to consider those feelings and subjects with an eye to writing with more focus and authenticity. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row. 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