Contributor’s Notes Kaitlin Abrahamson is a senior at CWU. She is graduating this spring and majoring in English with a focus in writing specialization. Her brother still doesn’t know this, but when she and her brother played the split screen deathmatch mode on Goldeneye, she would look at his screen to find where he was so she could kill him faster.
Chloe Allmand is a sophomore English/Writing Specialization
Major. She is from Aberdeen, Washington, and currently works as a Publications Writer/Media Assistant in the CWU Publicity Center. After graduating from CWU, Chloe plans to attend graduate school and continue to pursue a career as a writer.
Mike Cordle was a fundamentalist Christian missionary in Papua New
Guinea from 1989–2001. For seven and a half of those years he lived and worked among a small remote mountain tribe called Wantakia. In the end, Mike’s autodidactic readings in philosophy, history and theology, combined with his severe ontological disappointment in God, led to the demise of his faith. He has written an as yet unpublished memoir regarding this journey with the working title of Nietzsche in New Guinea. Mike Cordle is a senior at CWU’s Des Moines Campus.
Ashley Degon will (finally) be graduating this June with a bachelor’s in
English and a writing specialization. When she grows up, Ashely would like to be a copy editor at a publishing house. Her extracurricular activities include involve DJ-ing as Sid the Kid for 88.1 “The Burg” and singing in CWU’s women’s choir. Ashley enjoys hiking with her dog, Reggie, running, and making macrame bracelets that she intends to sell but usually end up in odd places.
Steven Dougherty was born in Clarkston, Idaho to a Hispanic mother
and an Irish father. He grew up in Naches with his brother Sean amidst the burned remains of their grandmother’s home. The family soon moved to Yakima. Steve spent most of his childhood days playing in his room, lost in his imagination. Today, he lives in Yakima and commutes to CWU. He is an English education major, working on his last few quarters.
Kasey Eickmeyer is a Sociology student who wishes to someday bridge the worlds of academic sociology and creative writing. For now, she is Manastash 2013
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