New Teacher - Ex- Punk Rock Diva

By Mayze T.

Mrs. Carroll is the new English teacher in the Stevens building. Outside of school, she likes to read, write, cook, and walk.  She has two dogs, one named Toast and one named Ziggy. When she was a student, she said that at first she went to a “very proper girls’ school in London where we had to write with fountain pens and go for prayers every morning.” However, in high school she went to a more “non-traditional” school where students called their teachers by their first names. She says that NCCS is a good blend of non-traditional and traditional schools. She likes the school because it values “curiosity, community, and a nice balance of work and play and high standards in everything.” Her first job after college was as a “Photo Stylist.”  A photo stylist is “a person who gets all the props and wardrobe that you see in pictures.” She has, apparently, chosen the wardrobes for several famous people. “I’ve seen Martha Stewart and Al Roker in their underwear,” she says and laughs. She worked as a photo stylist while she was in graduate school in New York. After graduate school, she was a writer and editor for about a decade. She had three books published and edited a variety of others. She also had articles published in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times Magazine, and several literary magazines. A Fun Fact about Mrs. Caroll: She was in a punk band when she was younger. She played keyboard and wrote the lyrics. When her father came to one of their concerts, he said, “The popcorn was very good!”