Staff
Emily Rutter
Associate Professor of English and author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line (University Press of Mississippi, 2018) and The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2018). Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, she co-edited Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020).
“There is no higher sleep than safe. More rice, please.”
Nikky Finney, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
Dillon O’Nail
Teacher’s Assistant for the 2021 issue of the Digital Literature Review
“‘The next morning, confident of hell-fire, they promise to give each other so much joy in life that hell-fire will be a very cheap price to pay.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Emily Turner
Lead Editor
Major: English studies
Minor: creative writing and professional writing and emerging media
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ian Roesler
Blog Editor
Major: Creative Writing
Minor: German, Biology
“How can anybody dislike cheese?”
H.P. Lovecraft
Allen Warren
Managing Editor
Major: English Studies
Minor: French, Political Science, African-American Studies
“His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse–Five
Tauri Hagemann
Editor
Major: Creative Writing
Minor: Spanish
“I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Kaila Henkin
Editor
Major: English Literature
Minor: French, Marketing
“The universe is rarely so lazy.”
Vinny Ramos-Niaves
Editor
Major: English Literature
Minor: Creative Writing
June Cooper
Publicity Team Editor
Major: Creative Writing & Criminal Justice
“No demon can possess you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it.”
Rachel Roberts, Trial By Fire
Ben Jett
Publicity
Major: English Creative Writing
“Reader, I married him.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Jianni Adams
Publicity
Major: Secondary English Education
Minor: Women and Gender Studies
“Out of the ash/I rise with my red hair/And I eat men like air.”
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
Julie Steele
Design
Major: English Literature
Minor: Professional Writing
“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Shelby Harrison
Design
Major: Creative Writing
Minor: Professional Writing and Emerging Media, and Art History
“I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Andrea Mohler
Design
Major: Creative Writing
Minor: German and Studio Art
“You and I have some unfortunate chemistry.”