Keli Barrett is a resident of Newton County, MS. She currently works at East Central Community College and attends Mississippi State University as an undergrad in the Interdisciplinary Studies program. Barrett is the mother of three amazing children,…
DeJuanay Hunter Jr. was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. He transferred to Mississippi State University as a sociology major in 2019. He has enjoyed getting to know Mississippi better, though he has found it challenging at times. In his own words, he…
Nate Venarske is a student at Mississippi State University majoring in Biological Engineering and minoring in Creative Writing. He is an artist and naturalist who enjoys photographing, drawing, and writing about nature as much as studying it. On the…
Robert West’s poems have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, and other periodical venues, as well as anthologies including The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3: Contemporary Appalachia (Texas Review Press), Hard…
After graduating from MSU in 2016 with a BA in English and a minor in history, Hannah V. Warren completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas in 2019. Now, she's is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia where she…
Michelle Aucoin Wait holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Spanish and a Master of Arts in English with a certificate in Gender Studies from Mississippi State University and an M.F.A. in Poetry and a certificate in Gender, Race, and…