Contributors
Cristina Cerny is a fresh alumna of Wheaton College, and is currently pursuing her MFA at Roosevelt
University in Chicago. Secretly a ballerina, she enjoys photography, swallowing books whole, and would like to
grow up to be a giraffe one day.
Megan Dunbar is a recent LSU graduate leaving behind all common sense to travel to Vietnam and teach
English at the end of August. Her goals in life include visiting everywhere in the world and helping people learn
the world isn’t as straight and narrow as the media portrays.
VN Ford is fierce. She is a senior at University of Pennsylvania and she is Program Assistant at Kelly Writers
House in Philadelphia, PA.
Luke Hodges is a rising at the University of South Carolina where he majors in Fierceness with a minor in
Empathy. No one has yet understood the human spirit in quite the same way. He is also in a picture with Bill
Clinton.
Jordan Jensen is a rising junior at Vanderbilt University where he is double majoring in Spanish and PreMedical studies. He hails from Kansas City and loves gospel music, as well as anything vintage and retro.
Isaac Jones studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He is a coffee enthusiast and loves music, tattoos,
buzzfeed, and The Great Perhaps.
Corey Kilgannon is a singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, TN and currently attends Belmont University.
He enjoys collecting shark teeth, being at the ocean, and touring with his friends.
Da’Shawn Mosley is a rising junior at the University of Chicago, majoring in English and Creative Writing.
He has been published in the anthologies Best Teen Writing of 2011, What We Remember, What We Forget:
The Best Young Writers & Artists in America, and plain china: the Best Undergraduate Writing of 2013. He
recently appeared in the primetime PBS documentary Becoming an Artist.
Stephen Quillen is a rising Senior at Wheaton College, where he does not receive birth control under their
healthcare provision. He has a wide range of eclectic interests, including, but not limited to, Rihanna, Kurt
Vonnegut, Metta World Peace, and FIFA.
Eric Stiefel is currently studying comparative literature and creative writing at NYU, where he is the editor-inchief of West 10th. He really likes rain and orchids and all manner of horned things.
Matthew Tilley is a time-lapse photographer and astrophotographer based out of Charleston, South Carolina.
He drinks vinegar regularly, and spends a lot of time researching owls.
Marisa Tirado is an undergraduate student at Wheaton College studying Writing and Psychology. Her
weakness is mountains and her guilty pleasure is shouting at her laptop while watching all of the characters die
on Lost. She is passionate about living life as an adventure and conquering the fear of failure.