Literary Artist, Visual Artist
Service Location: Moore County
School Placement: Southern Middle School
Graduate of: Wittenberg University
Reese Harper is originally from Columbia, South Carolina and has been writing since she was first placed in a creative writing class during her junior year of high school. Reese graduated from Wittenberg University with a bachelor’s degree in English and minors in creative writing with a poetry concentration and psychology. She is interested in how writing can be used to cope with trauma.
Reese also has experience in teaching English as an additional language through her time spent in Taiwan as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant and in Japan as a camp counselor for GHJ International. Additionally, she dabbles in the visual arts and has taken undergraduate coursework in ceramics and drawing.
Reese is looking forward to supporting arts education in a community closer to home through ArtistYear as an ArtistYear AmeriCorps Resident Teaching Artist in Moore County!