CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS KOLOIAN is a junior English major who enjoys Pokémon, baking, and reading. He hopes to publish more written works in the future and can often be found sitting in the library, blankly staring into the void, contemplating life before eventu- ally doing his homework.

AUBREY LINK is a junior English major with a writing concentration and a Philosophy minor. She is the public relations chair for

The Mercury.

MARION McKENZIE is a junior from Lan- caster, Pennsylvania. She is an Environ- mental Studies major with a Mathematics minor and enjoys writing outside of her math and science classes.

JACKIE McMAHON ‘21 intends to major in English with a writing concentration. She has been in love with storytelling since childhood and aspires to someday become a writer of mystery and suspense. In addi- tion to The Mercury, Jackie writes for The Gettysburgian newspaper and is a member of College Democrats. In her free time, Jackie likes to spend too much time on her literary-centric Tumblr blog, obsess over fictional characters, and pet all the cats she possibly can.

JESSICA McMANNESS is a junior double ma- joring in Anthropology and English with a writing concentration. She is an events coordinator for The Mercury.

APHRA MURRAY is a senior Chemistry ma- jor. She took a creative writing class in the spring of her junior year and found a creative outlet not available to her in sci- ence classes. Next year she will be attend- ing graduate school to pursue her love of chemistry.

ANDREW NOSTI is a senior studying history and English with a writing concentration. PAUL HENRY O’NEILL is a junior and in the

last year dove into the world of film and photography. He is a Cinema and Media Studies and Political Science double ma- jor. These berries are from his grandpar- ent’s blueberry bush in Michigan. When he was a boy he could only reach the low- hanging fruit, but now he plucks them from any height with ease. As he ripens, the sweet taste of nostalgia from these ber- ries only intensifies.

NATALIE ORGA is a first year intending to

major in English with a writing conten- tration and minor in Studio Art. She is from Bear, Delaware and hopes to become a published novelist in the future. She would like to thank her dog for being ex- tremely fluffy.

JONATHAN RAVA is a senior Political Science major and Business minor.

ERICA SCHAUMBERG is an Art History ma- jor and member from the class of 2018. At an early age, she always believed it was important to capture moments that will never exist again through photography. She credits her father for inspiring her to view life through a camera lens. She is the art editor for The Mercury.

MACKENZIE SMITH is a sophomore major- ing in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Kenzie is an events coordinator for The Mercury, a weekly radio host for WZBT, and a research member for the Environmental Leadership program in the Eisenhower Institute. In her free time, she enjoys reading sappy romance novels, tell- ing corny jokes, and writing poetry. DANIELLA SNYDER is a senior English and-

Art History double major from Northum- berland, Pennsylvania. During the fall of her junior year, Daniella studied abroad in Florence, Italy. Her favorite place to spend time was the Piazza delle Murate, a former convent and prison turned cultural hub full of cafes, restaurants, and beauti- ful places to read, write, and people watch. CHARLES STERNBERG is majoring in Cine- ma Media Studies and minoring in Music. In his free time he enjoys watching movies and playing trombone.

ELLIANIE VEGA is a sophomore English and WGS major and Japanese minor. She loves tofu, vintage Nintendo games, yoga, Da- vid Bowie, and the color pink.

EMILY WHITCOMB is a senior Studio Art major. She loves writing but found its healing powers a little too late, so she is sad that she wasn’t able to explore this out- let more in her classes. She loves the out- doors and spends most of her time hiking, kayaking, skiing, camping, etc. This is her first time opening up to strangers, and she is feeling vulnerable, but she is excited to see where this takes her!

lar Biology major and Studio Art minor. She works in Dr. Jennifer Powell’s lab in the Biology Department and as a Pub- lic Relations assistant in the Art and Art History Department. She can usually be found in the Science Center at all hours of the day (and night).

Thomas Bender

(fiction) graduated from Gettysburg College in 2012 with a B.A. in English with a writing concentration and minor in Religious Studies. He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University in 2014. While there, he served as an Editorial Assistant and then Managing Editor of TINGE Magazine, Temple’s online literary journal. Bender completed his M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Chestnut Hill College in 2017. He taught English and Creative Writing at Mount St. Joseph Academy in Flourtown, PA, for two years and currently teaches English at Notre Dame Prep in Towson, MD. He lives in Cockeysville, MD with his wife Man- dy, also a graduate of the Class of 2012 from Gettysburg. Bender has been previously published in Digital Americana Magazine and is working on a short story collection.

Austin Clark

(nonfiction) graduated from Gettysburg College in 2012, majoring in History and minoring in writing and Civil War Era Studies. He is currently a Mas- ter’s Student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying public history and writing about graveyard preservation and classical art in America. As a writer, Austin specializes in creative non-fiction, especially in memoir. After his graduate studies, he is looking forward to exploring how historical thinking can be applied to personal non-fiction writing.

Emily Birx

(poetry) is a Gettysburg graduate with an MFA from Queens Univer- sity of Charlotte. She was an intern at the Gettysburg Review and now teaches Creative Writing at Gettysburg College. She also teaches college courses in two prisons in Maryland through Goucher’s Prison Education Partnership and is starting a doctoral program at Vanderbilt later this year.

Anika Schneider

(art) is an artist originally from the D.C. area. She currently lives in Minneapolis, where she is a MFA candidate for 2019 at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She went to Gettysburg College for undergrad, where she double majored in Environmental Studies and Studio Art. Before pursuing her masters de- gree she worked as a naturalist at Croydon Creek Nature Center in Rockville, Md. Her paintings aim to use oil paints in new ways to make connections between various aspects of her life. She is currently working on a series of narrative paintings explor- ing memory and the loss of her grandmother. When she is not painting, she enjoys exploring parks with her dog.

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