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Faith Aronowitz
Faith Aronowitz is a first year student at Muhlenberg College and is very excited that her poem was chosen to be featured in the inaugural issue of Popped. Faith is an RJ Fellow and is interested in studying theatre, music, and business. On campus, she is involved with the MTA, Children’s Theatre, sings with the Chaimonics, and is Class Secretary for the Class of 2012.
Amra Brooks
Amra Brooks was born and raised in California. She has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz, University of California San Diego, and Naropa University. Currently she lives in Pennsylvania where she teaches at Muhlenberg College. Her novella California will be published by Teenage Teardrops in December 2008. She is working on a book of fiction tentatively titled The Scariest Movie Ever Made, as well as a collection of poems called The Pinking Sky. She has written for Artforum, the LA Weekly, index magazine, and contributed to The Encyclopedia Project F-K, as well as other publications.
Katherine DiPierro
Katherine DiPierro is a sophomore doing a double major in Psychology and Studio Art. She has found that the two subjects complement each other in many ways, and she always looks for ways to bridge them. As for her creative process, Katherine finds a strong link between creative art and music/culture. Music literally translates as "the art of the Muses," and almost all her work is inspired, in one way or another, by the sounds and songs she listens to. Besides academics, she volunteers at the campus radio station, 91.7 WMUH, and discovers new musical artists - and inspiration - every week.
Nicole Falso
Nicole Falso is a senior English major at Muhlenberg College working towards her certification in Secondary Education for the teaching of English. Nicole's passion for writing started at an early age, but her biggest writing achievements include being the editor-in-chief of her high school yearbook as well as the managing editor of the literary magazine. Nicole continued writing through college, working as an editor on Muhlenberg's "Ciarla" yearbook and a guest writer for the Muhlenberg Weekly. Nicole's coursework has included numerous writing classes, including Nonfiction Writing, for which this piece was written as an exercise describing an ordinary everyday object. After graduation, Nicole plans to bring her love of writing into the classroom as a secondary school teacher; although she wouldn't mind a job as an editor for a trendy New York City magazine. Nicole currently lives in Hillsborough, NJ.
Alyssa Lucadamo
Alyssa Lucadamo is a sophomore from Hazleton, PA. At Muhlenberg, she is an English major and is also pursuing a secondary teaching certification. She enjoys impromptu poetry nights and warm, caffeinated beverages. Her contributions to Popped will be her first (and hopefully not last) published writings at Muhlenberg. Her favorite authors include Charlotte Bronte, Michael Chabon, Jane Austen, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Keats.
Kate Mahoney
Kate Mahoney is a sophomore at Muhlenberg College, a dedicated runner on the Women’s Cross-Country team and a member of College Democrats. She is a political science major and anthropology minor and maintains an immense enthusiasm for poetry outside of her studies. Kate was co-editor-in-chief of the Madison High School literary magazine, Glyphs, in Madison, NJ. During her four year involvement in Glyphs, she had numerous poems and an essay published. Kate’s influences include the Romantic poets, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats.
Alec Marsh
Alec Marsh teaches poetry at Muhlenberg College.
Jessica Neufeld
Raised on the streets of “Da Bronx,” Jessica Neufeld saw many things: things she wishes she could forget, and things she wishes she could remember. Without much to believe in, she took to the streets, using her innate rhyming skills to become one of the most ruthless rappers on this side of Betty and Veronica. Inspired by J.Lo’s rise from the ashes of one of New York’s toughest borough, she decided to give up on the rap scene and start submitting her work to literary magazines. Jessica is a sophomore at Muhlenberg College. She has submitted her work to the Advocate and is a part of Muses. She went to Santa Fe on a family vacation this summer and is extremely grateful that she survived the experience.
Sarah Sansolo
Sarah Sansolo's illustrious career began in the third grade when she penned the much-acclaimed "Meowy Christmas" and declared herself a writer. Thankfully, she eventually ditched the talking cats and went on to win an Award of Merit in the 2005 Maryland PTA Reflections Contest for a short story entitled "I'll Try." This was followed by a two year jaunt in the world of fanfiction, during which time she wrote a 90 chapter series featuring a talking cat. Now she's a senior at Muhlenberg, majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing, and she promises that her pieces here contain no talking cats.
Leslie Schaffer
Leslie Schaffer is a senior at Muhlenberg. Her poem, “Glenn Onoko,” was written for a place assignment in Paul Martin’s Poetry and Fiction Writing class in Spring of 2006, and it describes a gorge in Jim Thorpe, PA.
Laurie Stone
Laurie Stone is author of the novel Starting with Serge (Doubleday), the memoir collection Close to the Bone (Grove), and Laughing in the Dark (Ecco), a collection of her writing on comic performance. A longtime writer for the Village Voice (1975-99), she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, a member of The Bat Theater Company, and a regular writer for Ms., New York Woman, and Viva. She has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Kittredge Foundation, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Saltonstall Art Colony, Djerassi Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, and in 1996 she won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle. She has published numerous memoir essays in such publications as Ms., TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, Speakeasy, and Creative Nonfiction. Her short fiction and nonfiction appears in the anthologies Writers at Work (2008) The Other Woman (2007), Best New Writing of 2007, It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style (2007), Full Frontal Fiction (Crown, 2000) and Money, Honey (Deutscher Tashenbuch Verlag, 2000). Her reviews can be seen in the L.A. Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Newsday. She has given readings in dozens of venues, including The 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, The Poetry Project, Barnes & Noble, KGB, The National Arts Club, and The New School. She has served as writer-in-residence at Pratt Institute, Old Dominion University, Thurber House, and Muhlenberg College. She has been a member of the faculty of Antioch University's Masters in Creative Writing Program, taught in the Graduate Theater Department of Sarah Lawrence, been a member of the faculty at Ohio State University, Fordham University, Southern Maine's Stonecoast Writers' Conference, and taught at the Paris Writers Workshop and the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has had short residencies and given workshops at many other universities, including CalArts, Trinity College, The University of North Texas, ArtCenter in Pasadena, Mills College, Indiana University, University of Connecticut, Yale University, and School of the Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1993 and 2001 she received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the category of Nonfiction Literature. She served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle and as a core faculty member of Fairleigh Dickinson University's MFA in creative writing. She recently did residencies at Yaddo, Saltonstall, Ragdale, Djerassi, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She participated in "Novel: An Installation," living in a house designed by the architecture firm Salazar Davis and working on a novel in Flux Factory's gallery space. Last spring she was included in the "Living Writers Series" at Muhlenberg College. She is currently at work on My Life as an Animal, a Memoir in Stories and Unmarked Trail: a Romance in Stories and a Guide to Setting up a Writing Partnership in collaboration with Richard Toon.
Collaborators on “Our Own Alphabet”:
Amy Bauer
Sam Corbo
Jon Kallen
Jon Kallen grew up and still lives in Bethlehem, PA. He attends Muhlenberg College and is presently a Junior. He is (when the dust of paperwork clears) a Film Major and a Creative writing minor. Jon has had for the last seven years the intention of one day becoming a writer (as opposed to a student that writes).
Casey Elizabeth Mank
Casey Elizabeth Mank is 21 years old and a Senior at Muhlenberg College. She studies English, Philosophy, and Writing, and particularly enjoys wearing boots, and watching far-fetched apocalyptic action movies.
Sarah Sansolo
Sarah Sansolo's illustrious career began in the third grade when she penned the much-acclaimed "Meowy Christmas" and declared herself a writer. Thankfully, she eventually ditched the talking cats and went on to win an Award of Merit in the 2005 Maryland PTA Reflections Contest for a short story entitled "I'll Try." This was followed by a two year jaunt in the world of fanfiction, during which time she wrote a 90 chapter series featuring a talking cat. Now she's a senior at Muhlenberg, majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing, and she promises that her pieces here contain no talking cats.
Jessica Taylor
Born January 11, 1987, Jessica Taylor was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She's an English major and art minor in the class of 2009. She hopes to both publish her work professionally in the future and design fashion.
Mark Wiseman
Mark Wiseman is a senior at Muhlenberg from Athens, PA. He is majoring in biology and minoring in writing.
Hannah Woodward
Hannah Woodward is a Junior at Muhlenberg from Farmington, Connecticut. She is an English major with a creative writing minor. She is a Resident Advisor and a member of various orchestra groups on campus.
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