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Amber Buckles is an undergraduate student at Utah Valley University, who loves spending time in the Ponderosa Pines of Arizona. She enjoys strong iced coffee, pastel sunsets, and creating mood playlists on Spotify.

Aldona Casey is a student at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is double majoring in English and Studio Art and hopes to pursue her masters.

Alicia Charron is a Creative Writing undergraduate student at Bowling Green State University. While her poetry has made its way into journals, her novel, “Ripples” is her first look into the world of being a published author. Alicia enjoys brief walks in the woods followed by a hefty meal in front of the television screen with her responsibilities leering in the corner behind her. General Fiction and Fantasy are the broadest forms of the genres she writes in. No matter what she puts on the page, the heart of her work is hope, hope of self-discovery and social understanding. You can find out more about her and her works at her website aliciacharron.com

Geneva Laur is an undergraduate student majoring in Art at the University of Delaware. She enjoys painting and drawing, both for artistic expression and simple fun. Outside of her art hobbies, she also likes running, reading, and spending time with her family.

Reece Ludwig is an undergraduate student studying creative writing at The Ohio State University. She loves reading, writing, and spending time with friends.

Osho Olaìítan Jeremiah, Word Commander III, a budding business educator, is a young Nigerian poet and a phone photographer. He is an undergraduate of Lagos State University. He has works published in NRB, Ngiga Review, Nanty greens, Communicator’s league, arts lounge, mywovenpoetry, Kalahari review, Salamander Ink, Icreatives review, SprinNG and elsewhere. His work was featured in the Boys are not stones anthology (poemify 2022) as well as the “How a poet loves a poem” (BBPC 2022). Though he is disciplined in economy management, he believes more in the power of art. When he’s not writing poems, you can find him taking photographs of nature & people, drawing, learning to write shorthand or listening to the beautiful songs of Brymo & thinking of his beautiful lover while gazing at the stars.

A. N. McKinnon is an undergraduate student at Ringling College of Art and Design studying creative writing. Her writing is often a blend of horror, magical realism, historical, and speculative fiction often drawing from passed-down family stories of Communist Hungary and her own experiences with grief and healing. Canadian-born and Florida-based, she is interested in anything to do with publishing and the editorial world, online gaming, and soapmaking.

Brendan Rowland, currently an undergraduate student at Cedarville University, lives in Westford, Massachusetts, several lots down from Edgar Allan Poe’s brief residence. He drives a Honda Odyssey. While writing, he sports black denim, cream-colored cat hair, and Sennheiser headphones blasting rock ‘n’ roll. He will begin a master’s in modern literature at the University of Glasgow in Fall, 2023.

Alexa Scotto is an undergraduate student at University of Delaware. They love drawing, painting, and printmaking. They intend to work in the illustration field, exploring the complexities of the human existence through their work.

Katie Terrell, an undergraduate junior at Stanford University majoring in Art History, creates art as a form of stress relief. Each artwork reflects her inner world, giving viewers a glimpse into her thoughts, emotions, and experiences.

Staff

Editor in Chief

Jay Paine

Managing Editor

Karissa Benson

Design Managing Editor

Katie Thomas

Poetry Co-Editors

Preston Waddoups

McKinlee Armstrong

Poetry Staff

KJ Anderson

Gregory Dille

Emmalynn Erard

Paige Fetzer

Noelani Hadfield

Eliza Oscarson

Jay Paine

Brady Parsons

Zada Stephens

Nonfiction Editor

Kyler Tolman

Nonfiction Staff

Karissa Benson

Danielle Bucio

Will Clark

Amber McCuen

Eli Moss

Adelaide Wilkinson

Fiction Co-Editors

Deren Bott

Paul Burdiss

Fiction Staff

Melissa Cook

Katie Moon

Chase Peterson

Ashleigh Sabin

Katie Thomas

Jonathan Walker

Faculty Advisors

Fiction

Charles Waugh

Nonfiction

Russ Beck

Poetry

Millie Tullis

Art and Design

Robb Kunz