CONTRIBUTORS

Zach Feldt is a senior at Waldorf University majoring in Vocal Performance. He has recently discovered his love for playwriting and writing poems to relieve stress and wants to improve his creativity. When he is not involved in music activities, he tries to practice writing, which is something he never focused on in high school.

Julienne Friday is a Professor of Sociology and Psychology at Waldorf University who enjoys woodworking and builds renaissance-era musical instruments such as harps, hammered dulcimers, and bowed psalteries. She has had works displayed at the Vesterheim Museum, the MacNider Museum, and the Museum of Danish History.

Noah Hoffman is a freshman from Mason City, Iowa. He is majoring in Music Arts Management and loves participating in theater and any music ensemble. His free time is usually filled by listening to music, nerding out over movies or video games, and hanging out with his family.

Jennet Hojanazarova is a Waldorf University junior, majoring in Biology. She is from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Jennet enjoys cycling, performing experiments, and taking pictures to capture the golden sun. Jennet hopes that you will see socially relatable messages in her art.

Gary Huizenga is a junior double majoring in Creative Writing and Communications with an emphasis in graphic design. She enjoys creating surreal images both with art and with words and is working toward publishing a novel which she hopes will become a trilogy.

Diana Humble is a senior in the Honors college with majors in Communications, Creative Writing, and an English minor. Her writing and photography can also be found in Z Publishing’s Minnesota’s Top Emerging Poets, Turnpike Magazine, Capulet Mag, and Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal, and she is the 2018 recipient of Alpha Chi Honor Society’s Thelma H. Hall presentation prize in Creative Writing. After graduation she hopes to pursue a Master’s degree in communications.

Barbara Johnson, a retired teacher from Forest City, has recently published her first book, a memoir named The Back Door People, Memories of the Houses Where I Lived. Besides writing, she enjoys gardening, hosting friends and family in her home, and reading about health and spirituality.

Donnica Keeling was raised in the small town of Sheffield, Iowa. After graduating from Waldorf University in 2019 she began working as a librarian in her hometown, while continuing to add to and tweak collections of reinvented fairy tales and folklore poems. However, every writer needs a break from

time to time, and if she is not writing you can always find her in the kitchen, experimenting with new culinary techniques with baking flour all over her.

Noah Keolanui-Herman is a junior studying Communications at Waldorf University, while also part of Rotaract Pillars. He is originally from Hawaii before moving to Iowa. Photography is his biggest passion, specifically portraits, seniors, and fine art photography. Noah strives to keep exploring photography and learning, and continue to create connections with others through the visual arts.

Araneg Leon is a freshman at Waldorf University, majoring in Biology. She is from a small metropolitan city in California and when she is not dedicating her time to academic work, she is playing soccer for the Warriors.

Garcia Menon is a Digital Media-Communications major from Waldorf University. He is an international student from Malaysia with many interests including filmmaking, photography, music and fashion.

Hannah Meyer is a senior from Algona High School. During her free time she enjoys writing, listening to music, and spending time with friends.

Myra Meyer is a Waldorf University sophomore majoring in English. She is from Burt, Iowa and has alwavys had a love for reading and writing. Outside of writing, Myra enjoys music and spends her free time playing her french horn.

Ellie Peters has lived in Iowa her entire life and continues to do so even now. She graduated from Waldorf University with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Psychology. She enjoys reading, writing, and eating while at work and in her spare time.

Lasantha Rodrigo, originally from Sri Lanka, currently lives in Bloomington, IL. He earned a Ph.D. in English Studies from Illinois State University. Lasantha specializes in life writing and draws from his growing up years in Sri Lanka. Trauma theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory are among his main areas of scholastic interests. As a writer, he strives to draw a thoughtful and humane response from his audience.

Kobi Sadler is a sophomore majoring in Business and minoring in Creative Writing. He loves being unique and doing everything in a creative way. A couple of his passions are creating duct tape art and writing, so he decided to combine the two and put together a book called “Anti Boring Content.” His artwork is a piece from that book.

Sydney Sell graduated from Waldorf University in December 2018. She’s currently working on pursuing a Master’s degree in either creative writing or library science.

Luna (Aynur) Shirmamedova is a Waldorf University junior, majoring in Communications and minoring in Biology. She is from Turkmenistan; before coming to the United States she used to make different artworks for small organizations. With the right music, she can work on her projects for hours.

Guzel Tuhbatullina, 26, is a Waldorf Alumna (2019) with a BA in communications. Photography became a way of inviting people to see the world through her eyes. Among all the different types of photography, portraiture stands out to her more than any other. Each person’s face is unique and mysterious. It tells its own story. Curiosity to guess that story is one of the reasons she loves taking portraits.

Madina Tuhbatullina is a junior at Waldorf University, majoring in English and Creative Writing, and minoring in Communications. She is from Dashoguz, Turkmenistan. Apart from writing, she enjoys analyzing and finding patterns in literary works, and exploring what those patterns tell about society and the world.

Joe Van Essen is a freshman at Waldorf University who is majoring in Business with a minor in creative writing. Creative writing one of his past times and when he can’t do that he is playing offensive line for the Waldorf Football team.

Sarah Williams is a Waldorf University sophomore from Poway, California, majoring in Psychology with a minor in Creative Writing. Alongside writing, they spend their time drawing, listening to music, and playing volleyball for Waldorf.

There’s 3 well known facts about Mandi Wright— she is 23 years old, loves Modest Mouse, and resides in Forest City, Iowa. When not working at Borderline Pizza / Taco Jerry’s, she enjoys reading and writing, taking walks around town at midnight, and caring for her new family and mischief of rats.