Will Torrey Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Will Torrey is a recent graduate of Louisiana State University, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in literature and creative writing. 

He is currently a graduate student in the GCSU Master of Fine Arts program, specializing in fiction writing.

When away from the writing center, Will can often be found enjoying a conversation among friends and a reasonably priced bourbon on Hancock Street.

Evan Allgood does not photograph well. He hails from Alexandria, Virginia (right outside D.C.), so naturally he pulls for the Redskins and Wizards, as well as his various fantasy teams. He enjoys reading, running, watching Lost, and going to concerts. He'd like to be a big famous screenwriter one day, but doesn't think it's in the cards. (Optimism is not a strong suit.)

Please forgive Evan if he collapses in hysterics at the mention of the Piggly Wiggly. Evan's not from around here, and he has a lot of growing up to do.

Jen Pirkle graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2005 with a BA in Writing and Linguistics.  Through a spectacular combination of dumb luck and sheer force of will, Jen has managed to support both herself and her cat over the last three years while saving money for a return to her preferred career as a professional student.  She is now pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and hopes to catch up to it in the year 2011.  Her dream is to write many consecutive stories that don't suck.

Kelly Pasmanick graduated cum laude from The University of Denver with a major in creative writing and literary studies and a minor in Spanish.  At Denver, Kelly received the Cherrington Global Scholar award for study at Lancaster University in England.  Kelly has worked as a freelance editor, an English tutor, and a tutor in spanish.  Kelly's story "Capped" was published in Mindprints in 2007. 

Josh Ruffin is an MFA candidate on full assistantship, with a concentration in poetry and a passing interest in creative nonfiction. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Literary Theory from LaGrange College in 2006 and, as far as we know, is one of the only students to have ever written a scholarly paper on The Marabou Stork Nightmares. Josh comes to us from Augusta, where he worked as a freelance music journalist, radio producer, and bartender, in which capacity he once broke up a fight while balancing a Guinness on the head of a pin. If you stand still for long enough, he will tell you why Blue Cheer are more culturally significant than Black Sabbath, though darned if we know what he's talking about.

When not in the Writing Center, Josh can be found reading Ezra Pound, studying the Tao te Ching, downing stouts, or watching movies with his roomie Ashley. He loves cats.
 

Ashley Emmert is a first year Masters of Fine Arts graduate student from Panama, Oklahoma, specializing in poetry. She graduated from Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, May 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a minor in Political/Military Science. Last year she volunteered with AmeriCorps in Las Cruces, New Mexico, teaching, among other things, poetry and prose to high school students at the Alma d'arte Charter High School. She also worked as an artist on a community ceramic mural with the world renowned muralist, Ken Wolverton. In addition to working in the Writing Center and attending classes, Ashley reads for Arts & Letters and is the Co-coordinator for the department's WITS program at the Georgia College Early College program. Ashley likes to start her mornings off with Lethal Weapon and a chocolate shake and spends her free time with brain-numbing video games, sappy chick flicks, and hopelessly trying to reform her terror of a cat, Italics.