MEET OUR STAFF

WITS Director    

Kathleen Sullivan is a writer and translator from New York. She is a current→

WITS Faculty Advisor    

Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France (Starcherone)→

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Sarah Barch is a fourth-year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arkansas.→

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Schuyler is from Pea Ridge, AR. They are an MFA student studying poetry at→

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Elijah Dilday is from Springdale, Arkansas. He teaches at the University of Arkansas, and→

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Jace Einfeldt is a writer from Southern Utah. He is a third-year fiction writer→

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Shanti Hossain is a fiction writer from New York City. She is a first→

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Jared is a fiction writer from Whittier, California. They have a master’s degree in→

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Laurie Marshall is a writer and artist from Northwest Arkansas. She’s had short fiction→

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Hannah Lane Patterson (she/her/hers) is an artist from the roundabout South based in Northwest→

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Cal Paule is a poet and translator from Saint Paul, MN. They are a→

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Grace Penry (she/her) is an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas originally from→

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Erin Pinkham is a queer poet from North Texas. Her work focuses on coming-of-age,→

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Mar Prax is a writer from Valdez, Alaska. She is first-year MFA student in→

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Claire Scott is a third-year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arkansas.→

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Amber Nichole Smith is a first-year MFA candidate studying fiction. →

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Kate Stoltzfus (she/her) is a poet from the Midwest. A former journalist specializing in→

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Sophie Trist is a fourth-year MFA candidate studying fiction. She’s totally blind from birth and→