Kristiana Filipov

My name is Kristiana Filipov

I’m a writer and a postgraduate student at Trinity College Dublin

 
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Résumé

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Education

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2024-2025

  • Masters Degree in Irish Writing

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2020-2024

  • Bachelor of Arts, German (Honors), certificate in Humanistic Studies

  • GPA 3.88

Harriton High School, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2017-2020

  • International Baccalaureate (2018-2020), Diploma Score 39

  • Honor Roll, Weighted GPA: 4.95

Falmouth High School, Falmouth, ME, 2016-2017

  • High Honor Roll, Non-weighted GPA: 4.0

Carl-Zeiss [Math and Science] Gymnasium, Jena, Germany, 2015-2016

  • Exchange student, all classes taught in German

Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, Waldkirch, Germany, 2014-2015

  • Exchange student, all classes taught in German

Internships and Employment

2025~ - Nonfiction reader, The Wild Umbrella: Journal of Prose and Poetry

2023-2024 - Digital Archivist at Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ

June-July 2023 - Internship at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany

Academic Year 2021-2022 - Chemistry Tutor at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

2021-2023 Borrow Direct Assistant at Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ

Summer 2021 - Public Relations Writer for Freiburg University Institute for Advanced Studies, (remote due to pandemic)

Summer 2021 - Content Creation Assistant for Silva Content Solutions, (remote due to pandemic)

Bylines

Music for the 2020s: Nass Recommends DECIDE by Djo,” Nassau Weekly, October 2, 2022

Nothing Like Mom’s Cooking: Reflections from Professor Mommy’s Daughter,” Nassau Weekly, March 27, 2022

20 Fun Get-to-Know-You Questions for the Start of the School Year,” co-written with Hazel Flaherty, Nassau Weekly, October 3, 2021

What Happened to Reading for Fun? And What Can We Do About It?” XQ America Rethink Together, September 16, 2021

A Frosh’s Guide to Thrifting in Princeton,” The Daily Princetonian, August 20, 2021

Faces of FRIAS: Debjani Bhattacharyya,” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies website, August 14, 2021

How to Visit Home from a Movie Theater,”Nassau Weekly, August 1, 2021

Where can I get spicy food in Princeton?The Daily Princetonian, May 2, 2021

Electra’s Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Matricide,” Nassau Weekly, April 11, 2021

Theater Review, “Songs for a New World,” Cappies Production Reviews, May 12, 2020

 

Awards

2022 PEN America College Level Free Expression Essay Completion

2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Philadelphia Writing Project)

  • Gold Key (Senior Writing Portfolio)

2019 National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar

  • National Merit Commendation

2019 The Cappies - Outstanding Critic Team Member

2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Philadelphia Writing Project)

  • Gold Key (Poetry), Honorable Mention (Poetry), Honorable Mention (Poetry), Honorable Mention (Fiction)

2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Philadelphia Writing Project)

  • Gold Key (Poetry) (American Voices Award Nominee), Silver Key (Poetry), Silver Key (Personal Essay/Memoir), Honorable Mention (Science Fiction/Fantasy)

2017 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Writing Project at U. of Southern Maine)

 

Skills & Languages

Organized

Patient

Communicative

Empathetic

Collaborative

English (Native)

German (Advanced)

Spanish (Intermediate)

 
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