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Dr. Lindsey Harding, editor-in-chief and faculty advisor
Lindsey is the Director of the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Pilgrims 2.0. Her research and writing interests include composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and digital humanities. Her critical writing can be found in Teaching English in the Two-Year College and Harlot. Her flash fiction and stories have appeared in Spry, Soundings Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Boiler, and others. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and four children.
Yuliia Kabina, managing editor
Yuliia Kabina is a PhD candidate at the Department of English with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies. She is a Graduate Assistant Director of the Willis Center for Writing at MLC. Her research integrates African American literature and autoethnographic methods to teach writing in various courses and extracurricular settings. She also explores how community-based theater techniques can support learning and research, dedicating the rest of her free time to making art, crocheting, and growing plants.
Macey Wilson, managing editor
Macey is a fourth-year genetics doctoral candidate in the Roberts-Galbraith lab, studying the mechanism of neural regeneration in the planarian. She is interested in scientific communication, specifically translating complex research for the general public and making research more accessible for everyone. Outside of lab, she enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with her husband and two cats.
Taran Bradley
Taran is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geology at the University of Georgia. He is from the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he completed his M.S. and B.S. at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His research focuses on the application of spectral data and machine learning to better understand Martian meteorites and analog sites on Earth, with an emphasis on water-bearing minerals. Outside of academics, Taran enjoys the arts, outdoors, and exploring the mysteries of life.
Chris Choe
Chris (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. He studies the history of US colonial administration, state-building and decline, and public/private power, using the Panama Canal and Canal Zone as a case study. In addition to political/diplomatic history, he is also interested in the history of capitalism and the history of science. When Chris is not ruminating on such esoterica as infrastructural power, he devours film and organizes a history-and-film series for the History Department. Chris received his BA in history from UCLA.
Thomas Jones
Thomas is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Poultry Science. His passions center on using poultry as a model system to help students develop technical, practical, and conceptual skills, as well as creating a more sustainable food supply chain.
Timeko McFadden
Timeko McFadden is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies in the Romance Languages Department. She teaches Spanish language courses as well as SPAN 2550: Introduction to Latino Literature. A graduate of the Women’s Studies certificate program she also teaches Multicultural Feminisms for IWS. She has served as a writing coach for the Writing Intensive Program which ignited her interest in serving on the Classic Journal’s editorial board. Her research interests include the performance of latinidad in the South, Latinx women’s culinary writing and food ways in literature. Outside of her research, she can’t seem to survive without music and sci-fi. Having worked as a certified chef for 8 years in upstate SC, she also requires the occasional hike to balance out her love of pastries and mofongo.
Kimba Wisotsky
Kimba is a graduate student in the English Department at UGA, where she focuses her studies on Victorian literature, the Gothic, and when she can, games studies. She especially likes reading and writing critically about vampires, and the shifting nature of sympathy and monstrosity in vampire narratives. To keep herself grounded during her studies, Kimba enjoys rock climbing, playing video games, and eating lots of pastries.
Alyssa Guarino
Alyssa (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UGA. Her research focuses on the environmental and physiological regulation of an enzyme that builds plant cell walls. She is passionate about scientific outreach and communication and has an interest in promoting and encouraging student research. Outside of the lab, she enjoys working on her hobbies, reading, writing, and spending time with her partner and cat.
Vincent Herrington
Vincent Herrington (they/them) is a graduate student in the Department of English at UGA. They are originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. Vincent received their BA in English from the University of Southern Maine where they completed an internship at The Faulkner Journal, which sparked their current research interests in Southern Studies and Modernism. They currently work as a consultant in the Willis Center for Writing.
Dylan Howell
Dylan Howell is a first-year MA student of English. He received his BA in English from Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. He studies Writing Centers as well as the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. He worked as an editor on the literary magazine of Transylvania Uni. For all four years of his undergraduate career.
Tasnim Musharrat
Tasnim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research centers on middle grade mathematics teachers, particularly out-of-field teachers instructing mathematics without a background in the subject. She is also a faculty member at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, and contributed as an author to the National Curriculum and Textbook Board’s mathematics textbook. Her broader interests extend to science-mathematics integration, gender and equity in STEM, and the postcolonial dimensions of educational theory. Outside academia, Tasnim finds joy in art, culture, books, and life in the mountains.
Amy Swartz
Amy is a first-year MA student in the English Department at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She graduated from Muhlenberg College in spring 2026 with a B.A. in English & Creative Writing and Political Science. Amy currently works as a writing consultant in the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing.