Vince Kotchian

I grew up in small-town Connecticut and completed the honors program at Boston College, graduating with a B.A. in English Literature. Though I loved the intellectual climate of Boston, it eventually dawned on me that life would be much better without Boston’s physical climate (long, gray winters and muggy summers)! I moved to San Diego in 2007, and I’ve been working full-time as a test-prep tutor and author ever since. When a student texts me that she aced the test or got into her reach school, I still literally jump up and down and grin.

In my spare time, I like traveling using miles and points (next trips are Spain and Japan), reading fiction (favorite authors too numerous to list but include Haruki Murakami, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Philip Pullman), watching The Great British Bake-Off (and sometimes actually baking things), hiking and camping, and rooting for the Red Sox and Patriots.