Dr. Osell holds a PhD in English from the University of Washington. For almost three decades she has taught writing, literature, research, and even math and chemistry (!) to students as young as second graders and as old as graduate students, including a stint homeschooling her son when he was in middle school. She has also written advice columns for academics and on gifted and special education, and specializes in working with twice-exceptional (2e) students who are academically gifted with learning disabilities. Having also worked as a freelance writer and an academic editor, she draws on both pedagogical and professional experience in helping students learn to understand writing as a way to communicate their thoughts and ideas to the world.

Along with her private teaching and tutoring, Dr. Osell has taught at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada; AoPS Academy-Gaithersburg, where she was the Director of Language Arts; and Bridges Academy in Los Angeles. She loves teaching and working with young people and their parents. Now that her son is a college student, she divides her time between California and Maryland, but no matter where she is she always has at least one cat around, who students may occasionally see onscreen during Zoom classes.