Carol Booth Olson is Director of both the WRITE Center and the UCI/National Writing Project.  A Professor in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine, she received her Ph.D. in American Literature from UCLA.

Carol has authored several books, including The Reading/Writing Connection, and published over thirty journal articles on interactive strategies for teaching writing, fostering critical thinking through writing, applying multiple intelligences theory to language arts instruction, using multicultural literature with students of culturally diverse backgrounds, and more.