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Welcome to Tangled Bank Farm! 

Tangled Bank is an iris farm. We sell hundreds of varieties, passed down to me from my mother. The flowers are as resplendent as the plants are indestructible. You will know their unique faces as they bloom into your world, year after year. We also grow vegetables and dahlias, patiently working through the cycles of life and death, humbly and resiliently changing and growing, season after season. The farm provides space and inspiration for students at the writing center.

The People's Guide to College Applications, published by Globe Pequot Press/ Prometheus, is a radically compassionate guide that honors messy lives, economic realities, and authentic stories. In a weekly step-by-step process, the book walks students and their parents through essay writing, extracurricular write-ups, interviews, editing processes, acceptance, rejection, and brave jumps into the future. A Memoir in Dead Animals is in editorial process with Tessler Literary Agency.

​​As artificial intelligence reshapes the world, thinking and writing remain critical activities of growth and problem solving. Tangled Bank Writing Center teaches writing not only as a craft, but also as a value. Through the processes of writing, students will learn how thoughts and words can shape, mend, and sustain an ecologically resilient, socially inclusive, and beautiful world.

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Jill Constantino
​About Me

Hi, I'm Jill! I am a flower farmer, an author, a writing instructor, and an anthropologist. Also, in different eras, I was a fox researcher in the Channel Islands, a high school science teacher in rural North Carolina, a bike messenger in Seattle, and a bartender and Fulbright Scholar in the Galápagos Islands. I received my doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan, then taught writing and anthropology at Harvard where I was a Dean. ​

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After Harvard, my husband and I moved to a farm in Maryland where we raise four kids, two cats, a dog, some chickens, and so many mice and snakes who battle us for territory.I have a brand new book called The People's Guide to College Applications (Globe Pequot Publishing Group/Prometheus). This book walks students and their families through the college application process in concrete steps, using lots of examples while encouraging calm and joy. I have another book: A Memoir in Dead Animals. It is about motherhood, fishermen, and the Galápagos Islands (in revision with Tessler Literary Agency). When I'm not writing, chasing raccoons and hawks from my chickens, or selling iris rhizomes to the greater DC area, I teach college application and essay writing workshops from my barn. I coach students into their favorite schools across the country while mentoring parents into contentment. 

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Feel free to write with any inquiries or thoughts!  Jill

jillcelesteconstantino@gmail.com

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