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Diana Arterian

Diana Arterian is currently attending CalArts for her MFA in poetry. Her chapbook "First Wind" is now available for sale at Skylight Books.

Stephanie Carrie

Originally from New Zealand, Stephanie grew up in Southern California before attending NYU as a National Merit Scholar and Tisch Arts Scholar. With the Scholars she traveled to Ghana and Vietnam, where she picked up her love of languages, storytelling. Stephanie perused this passion across Europe studying art, language, poetry and theater in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Paris. Throughout college and beyond Stephanie has used her creativity to work with young students to build their love of learning and help them create lifelong habits for success. She loves writing kids songs, eating butternut squash soup. She currently works as an actress and writer in Los Angeles and is a member of Tim Robbins' theater company, The Actors' Gang.

Casey McAlduff

Casey earned her B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California in 2009. She is currently working as a grant writer for the Magic Poetry Bus while she finishes her AmeriCorps* VISTA year of service in Boston, Massachusetts. In the coming years, Casey hopes to earn her MFA in Creative Writing while continuing to promote poetry as a powerful agent for social change.