EDITOR Edward J. Delaney
ASSISTANT EDITORS Abigail DeVeuve Katherine Gladsky Margaret McLaughlin Stephanie Nisbet Sean Nickerson Alexandra Orteig
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE Adam Braver DESIGN EDITOR Lisa Daria Kennedy Massachusetts College of Art
COPY EDITOR Connor Lahey
POETRY EDITOR Shelley Puhak Notre Dame of Maryland University
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Jared Clough Shannon Cullen Courtney Danforth Nadine Hapst Kevin Marchand Christi Mercuri
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Amish Trivedi
COVER ART to both the ocean, Puget Sound, and Lake Washington. College rowing crews, pleasure boats, and houseboats occupy on Lake Union. Artist Allen Forrest, born in Canada and bred in the U.S., creates cover art and illustrations for magazines and books. Forrest has received the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University’s Reed Magazine. His Bel Red painting series are part of the Bellevue College Foundation’s permanent art collection.
Seattle, WA, Lake Union, Yellow Boat, oil on board, 9” x 12”
This painting is from Allen Forrest’s Greater Seattle series. Lake Union is a city-bound body of water that connects MOUNT HOPE • ISSUE 8
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