Lexie Broemmer
Lexie Broemmer is a junior at Quincy University, double majoring in English and Journalism and minoring in History. She is an editor and writer for QU's student newspaper and is in the school's English Club. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and has recently taken up photography. She is inspired by all things dark and hopes to become a successful horror novelist in the future.
Miranda Guyer
Miranda Guyer is a junior at Quincy University majoring in English and attempting a minor in Journalism. Miranda wants a career in writing whether it is working at a newspaper, magazine, or being an author. She isn't quite sure of her path hoping it will come to her before she graduates in the spring of next year, but is being swayed toward an advice columnist. Miranda already has a published work and is eager to work on her next. She prefers dystopian works, but is open to any type of novel. She even writes fan fiction in her free time. She is currently involved in Sigma Tau Delta and the English Club. During her free time, she enjoys writing, video games, and both listening to and playing music.
Ian Howell
Ian Howell is a senior at Quincy University and is double majoring in Journalism and English. He currently has no friends nor does it look like he'll be making any anytime soon. When he is not musing about random things in his life, Ian likes to read, write, drink, and fight. He also likes playing video games and has too many cats. He is the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Falcon, The Fresh Prince of the English Club, and a member of the Sigma Tau Delta and Lambda Pi Eta Honor Societies. If this whole writer thing doesn't work out, he plans on being an astronaut, private detective, or running a foster home for wayward kittens.
Tom Huynh
Tom is a junior at Quincy University. He is a finance and accounting major. He enjoys playing soccer and watching soccer. He comes from a country that is thousand miles away from the United States. He loves to travel and learn more about the culture. He is also very interested in creative writing and all that.
Michael Keller
Michael Keller is an assistant professor of English at Quincy University, where he teaches American Literature and writing. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of religious and aesthetic experience in American poetry. Apart from teaching and publishing scholarly work, Michael writes poetry in traditional and experimental verse forms, as well as short fiction. His poem “Mohiniyattam” won the Editor’s Choice Award from Towers Literary Magazine in 2009. He lives in Quincy, IL with his wife and son, where he futilely daydreams about owning a motorcycle and joining a Mad Max-style raider gang.
Rebeka Porter
Rebeka Porter is a junior at Quincy University. She is majoring in Public Relations and English. Rebeka enjoys reading books and writing during her free time. This fall she will be applying to the JET (Japan Exchange for Teaching) Program for a position as an Assistant Language teacher. She will find out in January of 2017 if she is accepted. If accepted, after teaching in Japan for a few years, Rebeka plans to pursue one of her degrees in that country and/or become an interpreter. If she isn't accepted into the program, Rebeka plans to apply to PR positions and different editing companies in the hopes to pursue one of her degrees.
Beth Tressler
Beth Tressler is an Assistant Professor of English at Quincy University. In addition to teaching, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Ecstasy and Solitude: Reading and Self-Loss in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Psychology. Her critical work on the intimate dialogue between nineteenth-century psychology and Victorian literature has appeared in Studies in the Novel and Victorian Literature and Culture. In her freetime, she enjoys sketching while listening to audio books, particularly science fiction and fantasy.