Lauren C.
Lauren holds a PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics and an MS in Physics from the University of Notre Dame. She also holds a BA in Physics and Middle Eastern Studies from Claremont McKenna College.
Reno
Reno is currently an MSc student at the University of Oxford University in the Advanced Computer Science program, where his research project focuses on transformer-based neural networks for genomic studies. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame.
Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah got her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2015 and is currently an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Andrew S.
Andrew holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in English from Calvin University. He has taught English and Creative Writing classes at the University of Iowa and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, as well as tutored at Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.
Devin D.
Devin graduated from the University of Notre Dame as the valedictorian, studying Neuroscience and Education, Schooling, and Society. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied school-based mental health interventions. Devin is now an MD Candidate at Columbia University.
Sam C.
Sam graduated with a degree in Physics from Princeton University. After graduation, she taught physics at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She's currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Gino
Gino majored in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Computational Engineering at Notre Dame. Presently, he's pursuing his MS/PhD at Harvard, researching soft robotics and actuators.
Adrienne
Adrienne received her English PhD from Harvard University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her BA from Princeton University. She is a nonfiction writer and poet, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
Tash
Natasha currently attends Yale Law School. Previously, she worked as an asylum paralegal at the National Immigrant Justice Center, and as a domestic violence caseworker for immigrant women in Indiana.
Stephen
Stephen attended the University of Notre Dame on a full scholarship as a Joyce Scholar, and earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Bioengineering. He is currently an MD candidate at UPenn.
King
King is currently an MD student at Harvard. He earned his BA in Sociology and Health from University Notre Dame, and earned a MS in Global Public Health and Policy at Queen Mary University of London.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Emma
Emma earned her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a writing teacher, editor, and agent, and is now a freelance editor based in California.
Evan
Evan is a novelist, essayist, and educator. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Evergreen State College). Currently, he teaches at Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.
Chris
Chris received his PhD in English from Harvard. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an AB from Princeton. He currently teaches at a K-12 school in Connecticut.
Erin
Erin holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature (University of Virginia) and BA in English (Rutgers University, summa cum laude with high honors).
Colleen
Colleen earned a PhD and MA from Harvard University in History, an MA in Modern European History from St Andrews, and a BA in History and Art History from University of Notre Dame. Currently, she is a researcher at Johns Hopkins.