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Meet the Crew

Executive Team 

Noelle Franzone

Hannah Cargo

Josephine Geiger-Lee

Abigail Adams

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Executive Editor

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Artistic Director

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Head of Outreach

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PR Manager

Noelle Franzone is a third year English and creative writing and linguistics major. She hopes to one day inspire children the same way her childhood authors inspired her.

Hannah is a junior from Texas majoring in creative writing and environmental planning & policy. Continuously inspired by childhood stories, she hopes to help save the world someday.

Josephine is a junior from Omaha, NE majoring in English & creative writing and journalism & mass communication. She's excited to have her own coming-of-age story at the University of Iowa.

Abigail Adams is a second-year English and creative writing major. She is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and likes writing about the Midwest. She also likes chai lattes and is probably terribly behind her Goodreads goal.

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Olivia Bishop

Heidi Du

Hannah Franke

Cassie Parsons

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Writing Editor

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Writing Editor

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Writing Editor

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Writing Editor

Olivia Bishop is a first year English and creative writing major hoping to pursue library science. She loves exploring local bookstores, spending too much money on coffee and getting to know peoples’ cats.

Heidi Du is a first-year majoring in Biomedical Sciences on the pre-med track. In her free time, she swims, reads, and stresses out.

Hannah Franke is a third-year undergrad at the University of Iowa; she is studying psychology and linguistics. She loves eating pastries, enjoying the sunshine, and spending time with loved ones!

Cassie is a third year English and Creative writing major with a minor in Anthropology. She is currently applying to grad school for library information science with a focus on archives and special collections. Cassie’s favorite book is The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.

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Samm Yu 

Elizabeth Sloan

Eva Brooks

Marisa Rodriguez

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Artistic Editor

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Artistic Editor

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Artistic Editor

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Artistic Editor

Samm Yu is a third-year Psychology student and portrait photographer.

Elizabeth is a third-year English and Creative Writing major with a double major in Art. She loves to write stories for those little girls who like spiders and bugs and all things weird and creepy.

Eva Brooks is a third year English and creative writing major from Lombard, IL. Her favorite thing to do is take a bath bomb and have psychic revelations.

Marisa is a first-year, open major. They love anything arts-related, reading graphic novels and manga, and writing poetry and short stories.

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Kristen Sneed

Amritha Selvarajaguru

Kaley Grimm

Emily Veksler

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Illustrator

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Illustrator

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Illustrator

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Illustrator

Samm Yu is a third-year Psychology student and portrait photographer.

Amritha is a third year English and Creative Writing and Secondary English Education double major who aspires to be an English teacher one day. She admires the works of writers such as Ada Limón, Louise Glück, and Ocean Vuong, hates cockroaches with a fiery passion, and always eats M&Ms in rainbow order from red to brown.

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