Contributors
Desiree S. Evans is a first-year PhD student in creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she studies fiction, as well as African-American literature and folklore. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as degrees from Northwestern University and Columbia University.
Hailey Rose Hanks is a first-year PhD student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her primary focus is creative writing (fiction and nonfiction). Other interests include composition and rhetoric, Southern literature, and queer literature.
Brandi Hanna is a first year PhD student at the University of Louisiana Lafayette where she is pursuing her degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She is interested in tracking connections within the African diaspora and specifically focusing on orality, storytelling and folklore in The Bahamas.
Delaney McLemore is a PhD student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Delaney received their MFA from West Virginia Wesleyan College and their BA from Marshall University. Delaney is a nonfiction writer whose work centers on family, mysteries, and mental health. Their work can be found in Entropy, VIDA Online, and Music Men Ruined For Me.
Oakley Montgomery is currently a graduate student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is studying English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition. She has always been fascinated with the interconnectivity of words and the people and cultures that they effect.
David Squires is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research investigates the cultural legacy shared by information science and modern media, while his teaching focuses on twentieth-century American literature and research methods.