2019 Contributors
Noah Baker
Visual Art: Untitled
I am an 18 year old photographer and freshman at OSU majoring in graphic design. I work in many different mediums besides photography and graphic design, some of which are: drawing, editing, and music. I photograph with my iPhone because I believe that anyone can capture beauty without having a professional camera.
Visual Art: Untitled
I am an 18 year old photographer and freshman at OSU majoring in graphic design. I work in many different mediums besides photography and graphic design, some of which are: drawing, editing, and music. I photograph with my iPhone because I believe that anyone can capture beauty without having a professional camera.
Kait Burton
Fiction: An 'Almost' Experience
Non Fiction: Deterioration
Kait Burton is a senior studying English Creative Writing and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. Her feature stories have been published in Geo Outlook magazine, Impact magazine, and the Electrical Computer Engineering annual newsletter at OSU. She has worked in communications with the American Red Cross, International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, the O’Colly newspaper, and OSU Brand Management, writing news releases and news stories. Building on her background in journalism, Kait primarily writes creative non-fiction. Her writing is inspired by her grandfather, who suffered from dementia, and reflects on themes of memory, old-age, and storytelling.
Fiction: An 'Almost' Experience
Non Fiction: Deterioration
Kait Burton is a senior studying English Creative Writing and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. Her feature stories have been published in Geo Outlook magazine, Impact magazine, and the Electrical Computer Engineering annual newsletter at OSU. She has worked in communications with the American Red Cross, International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, the O’Colly newspaper, and OSU Brand Management, writing news releases and news stories. Building on her background in journalism, Kait primarily writes creative non-fiction. Her writing is inspired by her grandfather, who suffered from dementia, and reflects on themes of memory, old-age, and storytelling.
Matthew Hedrick
Poetry: The 3am Train on the Q65 Line
Poetry: I Wish Birds Had Moral Compasses-
Visual Art: Limbs 1
Visual Art: Limbs 2
Visual Art: Market
Visual Art: Telescope
Matthew Hedrick is a Freshman English student at Oklahoma State University. His main vice is over analyzing pop culture, especially the parts that are not worth the time he puts into them. However, he writes poetry and takes photos in the spare moments not consumed by that.
Poetry: The 3am Train on the Q65 Line
Poetry: I Wish Birds Had Moral Compasses-
Visual Art: Limbs 1
Visual Art: Limbs 2
Visual Art: Market
Visual Art: Telescope
Matthew Hedrick is a Freshman English student at Oklahoma State University. His main vice is over analyzing pop culture, especially the parts that are not worth the time he puts into them. However, he writes poetry and takes photos in the spare moments not consumed by that.
Jacob Jackson
Non Fiction: Small
Jacob Jackson is a junior Strategic Communications major with a minor in English. Most of his time is spent in class, working, or tending to the 20+ houseplants that he’s crammed into his tiny dorm room. He hopes to go on to integrate storytelling into the world of social media marketing, and eventually turn his living space into an urban jungle. His writing is centered around race, sexuality, and blended family culture.
Non Fiction: Small
Jacob Jackson is a junior Strategic Communications major with a minor in English. Most of his time is spent in class, working, or tending to the 20+ houseplants that he’s crammed into his tiny dorm room. He hopes to go on to integrate storytelling into the world of social media marketing, and eventually turn his living space into an urban jungle. His writing is centered around race, sexuality, and blended family culture.
Daniel Metroka
Non Fiction: The Burnt Playground
Daniel Metroka is a junior from Fort Worth, TX pursuing a degree in creative writing.
Non Fiction: The Burnt Playground
Daniel Metroka is a junior from Fort Worth, TX pursuing a degree in creative writing.
Leslie Peterson
Visual Art: Haze 2
Leslie Peterson is a 19 year old Texas native and currently a freshman attending the University of Texas in Austin (hook ‘em lol) with plans to major in journalism and advertising. Outside of class Leslie enjoys photographing local Austin musicians and concerts, being involved on campus, as well as working on the TSTV KVRX live music show Local Live. With a love of live music, photography, and writing, Leslie hopes to one day work in the field of venue or artist promotion (but she’ll take what she can get honestly). Leslie wishes whoever reading this is well, and to always stay safe and be smart.
Visual Art: Haze 2
Leslie Peterson is a 19 year old Texas native and currently a freshman attending the University of Texas in Austin (hook ‘em lol) with plans to major in journalism and advertising. Outside of class Leslie enjoys photographing local Austin musicians and concerts, being involved on campus, as well as working on the TSTV KVRX live music show Local Live. With a love of live music, photography, and writing, Leslie hopes to one day work in the field of venue or artist promotion (but she’ll take what she can get honestly). Leslie wishes whoever reading this is well, and to always stay safe and be smart.
Sam Rucks
Poetry: Black Tongue
Poetry: Husband
Poetry: Birdseye
Poetry: El Charro
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Samuel G. Rucks studies creative writing at Oklahoma State University. He is a member of the editorial staff for Frontier Mosaic where two of his poems, “El Charro” and “Birdseye”, where featured in the journal’s 2018 spring edition. The senior hopes to continue his studies in creative writing by attending graduate school in the fall.
Poetry: Black Tongue
Poetry: Husband
Poetry: Birdseye
Poetry: El Charro
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Samuel G. Rucks studies creative writing at Oklahoma State University. He is a member of the editorial staff for Frontier Mosaic where two of his poems, “El Charro” and “Birdseye”, where featured in the journal’s 2018 spring edition. The senior hopes to continue his studies in creative writing by attending graduate school in the fall.
Hannah Shannon
Poetry: The Doll
Hannah Shannon is a senior at Oklahoma State University from Jackson, Michigan. She is studying English in hopes of becoming a children’s author someday. In her free time she enjoys napping and relaxing with her fiancé and their cat Princess Katherine Sweet Buttons, or PKSB for short. She also enjoys belting the High School Musical soundtrack in the shower. Her biggest accomplishment in life was when Taylor Swift followed her on Tumblr.
Poetry: The Doll
Hannah Shannon is a senior at Oklahoma State University from Jackson, Michigan. She is studying English in hopes of becoming a children’s author someday. In her free time she enjoys napping and relaxing with her fiancé and their cat Princess Katherine Sweet Buttons, or PKSB for short. She also enjoys belting the High School Musical soundtrack in the shower. Her biggest accomplishment in life was when Taylor Swift followed her on Tumblr.
Alexis Skurnack
Visual Art: Anxious
Visual Art: Kaleidoscope
Visual Art: Saxophone Reflection
My name is Alexis Marie Elizabeth Skurnack, and as one of my professors once said, I can be described as someone “with too many talents, and too many interests.” I play saxophone, I write, and I do a lot of painting and pyrography. I do highly enjoy learning new methods, and have begun attempting digital work as well. When I’m not doing art, I am studying as a Wildlife Ecology major at OSU, with a minor in zoology and art. I love learning about animals and biology and feel strongly about their habitats and environment as well, and the cause for keeping oceans clean and increasing recycling worldwide is one that is very important to me. At the end of the day, I like to make art, and I make it for me. But I always enjoy the opportunity to share what I have to offer.
Visual Art: Anxious
Visual Art: Kaleidoscope
Visual Art: Saxophone Reflection
My name is Alexis Marie Elizabeth Skurnack, and as one of my professors once said, I can be described as someone “with too many talents, and too many interests.” I play saxophone, I write, and I do a lot of painting and pyrography. I do highly enjoy learning new methods, and have begun attempting digital work as well. When I’m not doing art, I am studying as a Wildlife Ecology major at OSU, with a minor in zoology and art. I love learning about animals and biology and feel strongly about their habitats and environment as well, and the cause for keeping oceans clean and increasing recycling worldwide is one that is very important to me. At the end of the day, I like to make art, and I make it for me. But I always enjoy the opportunity to share what I have to offer.
Taylor Watts
Fiction: All That’s Left (After the Fields Took the Rest)
Taylor Watts is a senior undergraduate English major with a focus in screen studies. She is from the small town of Bristow, Oklahoma. She plans to attend grad school in the fall to further her education in screen studies and hopefully teach film classes at the college level. She chose to pursue this path in an attempt to stop annoying her friends and family by rambling about whatever film or television series she was currently obsessed with, and turn that passion into a career instead. This has not actually caused her to stop rambling to her loved ones, but it has given her life some guidance, so some might chalk it up as a win. In her free time, Taylor enjoys writing, and has a particular fondness for the Southern Gothic.
Fiction: All That’s Left (After the Fields Took the Rest)
Taylor Watts is a senior undergraduate English major with a focus in screen studies. She is from the small town of Bristow, Oklahoma. She plans to attend grad school in the fall to further her education in screen studies and hopefully teach film classes at the college level. She chose to pursue this path in an attempt to stop annoying her friends and family by rambling about whatever film or television series she was currently obsessed with, and turn that passion into a career instead. This has not actually caused her to stop rambling to her loved ones, but it has given her life some guidance, so some might chalk it up as a win. In her free time, Taylor enjoys writing, and has a particular fondness for the Southern Gothic.