Melissa Bickey grew up in Beckley, West Virginia, the youngest of a large family. She started writing poems first, on subjects such as bubbles in the bathtub, then in journals, then plays, then finally stories before she came to Hollins.   She studied ballet for eighteen years, then after a back injury, she acted in a couple horror films (no names to be mentioned) and plays in New York City, and finally received her bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. She owes it all to her loving parents.
 

Barbara Chai

Kelly Cook

Aryanne Ferguson

Jordana's favorite candy is Reese's Pieces peanut butter cups. Her favorite smell is Lily-of-the-Valley, and her least favorite smell is garbage which sounds obvious, but she genuinely dislikes it. If she could have one superpower, it would enable her to morph into any animal she wanted. However, if she had to choose to be any animal, she would want to be a falcon so she could fly really fast. Of course, an armadillo would be cool too because they can walk underwater, and that seems like it would be interesting.
 

Aaron Greenberg

Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson writes poetry and comes from Ithaca, NY. He enjoys Belgian waffles, the sound of anger being expressed in languages he cannot speak, and sheepdogs.  He recently stopped getting his kicks on Route 66, you know, because of all the  laws against it.        His poem "Poinsettias" was selected by Mark Strand to appear in the anthology Best New Poets 2008.

Moving Day (web)

Erin McKee

Erin comes from Western North Carolina, a place nearly as enchanting as herself.  She is a fiction writer, and enjoys candy, arts and crafts, and blood-sports.  She is even bigger in person.

A poet and translator from New York City. In 2003 he co-founded Verso magazine, a culture and arts magazine based in Siena, Italy.  Currently he's working on an article about contemporary Italian fiction for the magazine A Public Space and plugging away at the poetry manuscript.

C.I. Shelton