Writing your own bio is not as easy as it sounds. 📝

Since I am a regular speaker at different ELT events, I already have a whole host of bios of different lengths and with different foci. This is why I could afford to have some fun writing my bios in today’s “Writing Incubator” workshop.

Here are two:

1️⃣ Irina Lutsenko is a dynamic and practice-oriented English teacher with 20 years of experience under her belt … who shudders when she hears “linguo-didactic methods.”

2️⃣ Irina Lutsenko is a self-employed writing teacher who – surprisingly – doesn’t share her breakfast pictures on her socials. A passionate writer, she skips breakfast because morning is her sacred time for writing IELTS answers.

On a more serious note, writing a bio can be hard not only because there is typically a strict word count limit (from 30 to 100 words), but also because you need to tailor it to each specific purpose.

3️⃣ Here is my serious bio for my talks about writing at the MISIS university conference in May:

"Irina Lutsenko is a dynamic English teacher with 20 years of experience under her belt. An alumna of three American exchange programs, Irina is also an avid test taker, boasting IELTS 9 (twice) and CPE A (twice). Irina's passion is writing – she writes tirelessly and inspires others to follow suit. On her mission to empower as many people to write as possible, she designs her own authentic writing courses. Her students write – from essays to novels."

See how each of my bios, fun and serious, focuses on a different aspect.

What’s your bio? Share in the comments (a fun or a serious one). Word limit: 50 words.