Scribendi Profiles

Content warning: This interview contains discussion on topics including rape and trauma.   Hannah Slind is the author of the WRHC award winning poem “reliance”—while she attends the University of Utah, the state in which she grew up, her international ties include her birthplace in England and her Canadian parents. Her poem “reliance” impressed Scribendi staff and the WRHC alike for its sophisticated and … Read More

Carrie George is the author and artist behind Curtains, “Apophatic,” and the award-winning “Raspberry Pie.” From the quiet town of Bel Air, Maryland, she now attends Kent State University in Ohio, where she works on several literature magazines. She also teaches poetry with the Wick Poetry Center and hopes to continue teaching poetry in her … Read More

Nat Quayle Nelson is an eclectic creator working on a Writing and Rhetoric degree from the University of Utah. She dabbles in everything from zines to game design to more traditional fiction, like her award- winning piece, “I Think.”   “I Think” is the story of Eliza, a depressed woman on house arrest, isolated from the … Read More

Joshua Chang is a double major in electrical engineering and applied mathematics at the University of Nevada, Reno who “doesn’t know why he didn’t choose to be an art major.” His piece Sunshine, which was created with house paint on a stairwell wall, was selected by the 2019 Scribendi staff to receive the Staff Choice Award for art. The staff was impressed by Chang’s use … Read More

Gabriella Hesse is a student at the University of Florida majoring in Biology and soon to be on her way to be on the pre-med track. Her academia in the STEM fields is not only the only thing she finds interest in, she also immerses herself in the arts.   Hesse’s piece, Piccadilly Circus is a mixed media … Read More

Daniel Lang is our 2019 staff choice award winner from the University of Nevada, Reno.  The staff choice award is a reflection of our staff’s favorite piece and often reflects the theme we are looking for in the year’s edition. We were amazed at the diversity of contributors and subject matter this year. So this year we … Read More

How would you describe yourself as an artist? I would describe myself as a painter whose focus is mostly on acrylic and oil mediums. I was traditionally a landscape painter, but in the past year or two I’ve branched out into other subject matter, such as portraiture. Why did you submit to Scribendi?  My honors college … Read More

Hannah Louise Utter is an English major at Washington State University. She submitted the award-winning nonfiction essay titled “Viola sororia” that’s published in the 2019 edition of Scribendi. It’s an essay that explores the topic of sexuality and same sex attraction in both historical and personal narratives. Upon reading the essay, the WRHC nonfiction judge, … Read More