Biography

Helen Raica-Klotz is the Director of the Saginaw Valley State (SVSU) Writing Center and the Saginaw / Bay Community Writing Centers.  She has her Masters in English from Central Michigan University and a graduate certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) from SVSU.  She has worked in the Writing Center for ten years, serving first as the Assistant Director and now the Director, with over 30 conference presentations and publications to her credit, including articles in The Peer Review, The Writing Lab Newsletter, and Praxis.  She is an Advisory Board member of the East Central Writing Centers Association, and past President of the Michigan Writing Centers Association. Ms. Raica-Klotz also serves as the current Saginaw Bay Writing Project Director, which provides classes and workshops for area K-12 teachers to enhance their ability to teach writing in their classrooms.

An instructor of composition in the SVSU English department for over 15 years, Ms. Raica-Klotz has served as the English department’s First-Year Writing Coordinator and the Chair of the University Writing Committee.