Dr. Pete Carriere came to Georgia  College & State University in the fall of 1997.  He founded the GC Writing center in the fall of that year.  Dr. Carriere published his first essay in 1974 while teaching at an international school in Tokyo, Japan.  He has published every year since then, and his publishing credits include film strips, technical writing, advertising copy, essays, and Japanese senryu, as well as academic publications.  He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska  at Omaha, a master's from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and a Ph.D. in 19th/20th century British & American Modernist  literature from the University  of Nebraska.

Rori Hoatlin comes to Georgia from Grand Rapids, Michigan--the west side of the state.  She is a 2010 graduate of Grand Valley State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing.  She is currently studying creative non-ofiction for her Master of Fine Arts degree at Georgia College.  She likes dogs, warm weather, and Sara Stephens' Oreo cookies made from scratch.

  Jad Adkins has a B.A. in English/Creatvie Writing from Marshall University in West Virginia.  He enjoys reading, writing, gallavanting, zipping around on his bicycle, shoes and not socks, pop rocks and soda, verbs that take the dative, general lawlessness, needle work, turkey with Swiss, a magnanimous disposition, various animals.  His favorite gland is the pituitary.  Jad does not like cabbage. 

Chelsea Henshey is from Charleston, West Virginia.  She is a 2011 graduate of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.  She is currently studying fiction writing at Georgia College.  Her work has apppeared in Santa Clara Review.

Jude Marr began life in Scotland, the same year that NASA was created and Elivis got drafted.  Her undergraduate degree is in English Language and cLiterature from scotland's oldest university, St. Andrews.  She has worked as a research assistant,  an academic librarian, and more recently  a food server.  Jude writes both fiction and poetry.  Her work has appeared in The Cortland Review and r.kv.r.y.

Ben Mitchell has lived in a few places.  Mostly Georgia places.  He graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2010 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Creative Writing.  He is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry at Georgia College.  He is also working as a reader and an intern for Ghost Ocean Magazine, in which his poetry has appeared, as well as The MacGuffin, The Avery Antjhology, and OVS Magazine.

Danny Plunkett is from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  He is a 2008 graduate of the University of Alabama, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. He is currently a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts program at Georgia College, where he studies fiction writing.

Jacqueline Stephens is from Macon, Georgia.  She is a 2010 graduate of Macon State College, where she earned Bachelor of Arts degree in English.  She is currently a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts program at Georgia College, where she studies poetry.