2018 Contributors
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Emmett Chisenhall
Poetry: Being Queer and Growing Up with Dead Gods Emmett Chisenhall is a sophomore Creative Writing major trying to find time to write amidst assignment deadlines. Aside from getting lost in wikipedia articles for hours at a time, he enjoys reading young adult literature, solving sudoku puzzles, and playing video games with friends. Emmett isn’t sure what exactly he plans on doing following college, but he’s sure it will involve collections of poetry and being surrounded by books. |
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Kennedy Essmiller
Nonfiction: The Three Drinks of Christmas Kennedy Essmiller is a junior English major at Oklahoma State University. She enjoys reading, watching Grey's Anatomy and Brooklynn 99 on repeat, and listening to Hamilton, as well as constantly striving to get better at writing. She is from Edmond, Oklahoma. Her dog is the light of her life |
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Ashley Fellhauer
Poetry: Beta Fish and Ethics Ashley Fellhauer is an aspiring teacher and Hamlet fanatic completing her second year at OSU. You may also see her making your morning coffee at Cafe Libro, cursing capitalism, or asking to pet your dog. Ashley takes great joy in making terrible puns and hopes you are doing okay. |
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Julie George
Poetry: Mother Julie is a Senior at Oklahoma State University studying creative writing. Julie enjoys reading, traveling, spending time with her husband, and watching Doctor Who when she's not obsessively writing. She hopes to continue writing long after graduation, and let life take her somewhere exciting. |
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Adam Glover
Fiction: This Prevailing Tragedy Adam is a sophomore majoring in Creative Writing with minors in History and Philosophy at OSU. He is currently studying abroad in the UK where he keeps hoping to run into the Queen. Obsessed with coffee, literature, and all things Miley Cyrus, he is usually not in touch with reality. He has been in love with the written word ever since he tried to pen the novel for the Naked Brothers Band: The Movie at age 9. After college, Adam plans on writing novels that are his actual ideas rather than those of movies. |
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Dorena Gordy
Poetry: NOLA | Portholes Dorena is your typical middle class white girl who hates coffee, loves mocha bubble teas, and has a dog named Llewelyn. Her hobbies include going on coffee dates, long drives, hammocking, and day dreaming. Her poetry is super gross where she is less gross. Her favorite song is “Notos,” by The Oh Hellos, and you’ve probably never heard of it. Please refrain from inquiries of what she plans to do after college. |
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Angus Henderson
Art: St. Aydyn | St. Aiden | St. Aidan Angus Henderson is a second-degree Super Senior at Oklahoma State's Stillwater campus, where he studies art history. He intends to stay in school for the rest of his life by getting a PhD in LGBT studies and art history, to teach queer visual culture at a university level. In his spare time, he likes to make art of other hot trans guys with woodcut, watercolor, and oil paints. |
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Tory Huff
Fiction: Picnics | Sweet Tooth Poetry: Arbor | Gardening | Preservatives Tory Huff is a Junior majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. A private school drop-out on the outside and a self-loathing spinster on the inside, Tory’s favorite things include sad books, musicals, and drag queens. His future goals include moving to New York City to spend time writing as the adopted child of Sigourney Weaver. You can currently find Tory in line at Burger King or lost in the stacks of Old Navy with a basket full of five-dollar flip-flops. |
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Emily Hughes
Fiction: Empath Emily Hughes is a Junior majoring in English and Music Industry. She wrote her first story when she was six entitled "Why is my head so big?" which mostly featured heads cut out of magazines. She has loved to write ever since. She is the Website Design Editor for the Frontier Mosaic. She plays violin in the OSU Symphony Orchestra and works as an Assistant to the Seretean Concert Hall Manager. She is also the President of the musical fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota and a member of the SGA Sustainability Committee. Most importantly, she is a very devoted aunt. Emily does not yet know where life will take her after college, but she is excited to find out. |
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Kourtney Johnson
Nonfiction: 8 Ball Kourtney Johnson is a senior in English Literature. In the fall, she will begin pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Writing at OSU. She hopes to publish an essay collection about her late father. Kourtney loves black coffee, Great British Bake Off, and her two pups, Bella and Hawk. |
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Brenda King
Nonfiction: My House I'm Brenda, a senior at OSU. After retiring from nursing, I came to OSU to chase my dream of writing. I enjoy all genres but my favorite to write is non-fiction. I include my family, friends, and animals in my writing. I get my inspiration in the darkness and peace of late night insomnia. I hope to publish many more pieces. |
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Lamia Lilly
Nonfiction: Black Lamia Lilly is a senior Creative Writing Major Graduating spring of 2018. She hopes to one day have a job that can afford to feed her Disney Addiction, while also allowing her to buy all the McDonalds French fries her heart desires. She began writing at an early age, nothing was spelled correctly, if it weren’t for autocorrect, that would still be true today. |
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Samuel G. Rucks
Poetry: Birdseye | El Charro Samuel Rucks studies creative writing and philosophy at Oklahoma State University. He works on Frontier Mosaic in the poetry and fiction committees. Outside of class, he enjoys reading modern and post-modern literature, abstract expressionist painting, finding new ways to brew coffee, and meditating. After graduation, he hopes to receive an MFA in creative writing and eventually, a Ph.D. |
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Rony Ramirez
Art: Rebirth of the Sun Born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma where we had to had to work with what we had and make the best out of it because lack of youth-orientated activities. Skateboarding across town to different skate spots gave free range of expression and creativity. After graduating from Northern Oklahoma College for Drafting and Design, I chose to keep climbing to pursue architecture. I dream of designing treehouses in an area where the trees are strong and abundant. There nothing comparable to sitting within the canopy of a tree and appreciating the land in all of it's beauty. It feels like being in the hand of God. |
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Tara Sepulveda
Art: Untitled | Untitled | Untitled | Untitled Tara Sepulveda is graduating in May 2019 with a degree in Strategic Communications and a minor in Spanish. She has always been interested in photography as a form of releasing emotion. Besides photography, her interests include eating, reading, hiking, and eating some more. Tara hopes to pursue a career in publishing, but honestly, she'll just take what she can get. |
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Jer Lydia Wright
Poetry: happy new year Jer Lydia Wright is graduating this spring with dual degrees in Philosophy and Psychology. Her primary interests lie in realms beyond the physical, and she hopes to pursue her education further at the graduate level. When she isn’t knocking back espresso shots or writing mildly-to-intensely melancholic poetry, Jer enjoys the smell of old books, television programs where girls kiss, and beating boys at their favorite video games. |