Jake Edwards (Jacob-w-edwards@uiowa.edu) is a senior majoring in English and Political Science. Having lived in Iowa City for the last seven years, he transferred into the University of Iowa his sophomore year and has enjoyed many different classes offered by the English department. Jake works for the University of Iowa Libraries, as well as teaches at Scattergood Friends School in West Branch. His current specializations include Victorian literature and the politics of revolutions. 

Hannah Gellman (Hannah-Gellman@uiowa.edu) is an English and Creative Writing major from League City, Texas. Hannah plays the mellophone in the Hawkeye Marching Band and has played the French horn in the university Concert Band. She is also a member of the University Lecture Committee, where she has helped bring people such as Lois Lowry, Ana Navarro, and Leslie Odom, Jr. to speak on campus. Through the English Department’s Publishing track, Hannah has both edited and designed a chapbook for the inaugural Iowa Chapbook Prize and helped put together Circuitry, a one volume student-run literary magazine. She has had her own work published in the campus literary magazines Ink Lit Mag and earthwords: the undergraduate literary review. Hannah is a senior also minoring in Arabic who studied abroad in Morocco. She is applying for a Fulbright Scholarship and hopes to teach English in Morocco after graduation. 

Tess Koetting (tess-koetting@uiowa.edu) is a senior from Texas majoring in English with the Publishing Track. She is currently a drama editor at earthwords: the undergraduate literary review and has served in various positions at Ink Lit Mag in the past. She has spent the last year studying abroad in Ireland, first attending UCC in Cork and then working as an intern in Dublin. She enjoys studying folklore, comparative mythology, and trashy science fiction.