Assault (SASA) and plays the clarinet in the conservatory. Kira loves cats, the color yellow (because it’s like sunshine), and be- ing quirky. She loves writing and is very excited to be included in this year’s volume of The Mercury.
CARLEY GROW is a senior majoring in Eng- lish with a Writing Concentration. Before spending her junior year abroad in Eng- land and Denmark, she had extreme avio- phobia and had never traveled outside of the United States. Now she is a slightly less picky eater and can say that she has been to thirteen countries.
BRYNN HAMBLEY is a junior Theater Arts major with minors in Music and Writing. Theater was her first love, but writing is not too far behind, and she specifically enjoys writing poetry and personal es- says. She would like to thank her family, friends, her amazing boyfriend Jared, and Poetry Circle for reading all her bad first drafts and dealing with her anxiety and tea-fueled ramblings.
LIAM HAMILTON is a sophomore Clas- sics major at Gettysburg College. Living about 20 minutes outside of Philadelphia in Delaware County, he’s enjoyed writing his entire life but never pursued much of it until he took a Creative Writing class in high school. This sparked his interest to continue writing in college, ranging from fiction to non-fiction, often based on the stories that have affected his life.
ANNIKA JENSEN ‘18 is an English major with a Writing Concentration and has mi- nors in Civil War Era Studies and Middle East and Islamic Studies. She loves goats, yoga, and destroying the patriarchy. Dan- ny DeVito is her inspiration.
AUBREY LINK is a sophomore English major with a Writing Concentration and a Phi- losophy minor. She plans on attending law school in the future, and her literary in- spirations include Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe.
JESSIE MARTIN is a junior Chemistry major and part of the Secondary Education Cer- tification program. She is from Rockville, MD. She is exploring photography as a hobby, and she enjoys nature photography, especially sunrises, sunsets, and silhouette photographs.
JESSICA McMANNESS is an English and An- thropology major with a deep and undy- ing love for chai tea, koalas, The Mummy,
JM Barrie, and Virginia Woolf.
JOSEPHINE MEIER is a first-year student at Gettysburg College. She plans to major in Biology and pursue possibly a double ma- jor in Studio Art. Her preferred medium is pencil and charcoal.
ANDREW NOSTI studies History and English with a Writing Concentration at Gettys- burg College.
KHUN MINN OHN is a self-taught photogra- pher and filmmaker from Yangon, Burma. Since high school, he has been pursuing photography as a hobby. At the age of eighteen, he made his first documentary, “Kings N Queens,” which was selected for the 33rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden. Through street pho- tography, Khun likes to capture life and culture in a candid manner. Lately, he has been experimenting with portrait photog- raphy. At Gettysburg College, Khun works as a photographer for the Schmucker Art Gallery and Athletic Communications. He is currently an intern at Communications and Marketing, where he produces video content for Gettysburg College’s social media platforms.
ANGELA PARR is a senior Political Science major with a minor in Writing. When not writing, she can be found in the dance stu- dio or out exploring new places. She has previously been published in Local Wolves
and Thought Catalog.
JHANVI RAMAIYA is a senior Sociology ma- jor with a Writing minor at Gettysburg College who enjoys short periods of lying down interspersed with long naps. She is currently deciding between MFA pro- grams in creative nonfiction!
JARED RICHARDSON is a junior Cinema and Media Studies and German Studies double major. He grew up in Vermont – also referred to frequently as South Canada – and plans to work in the film industry.
KATIA RUBINSTEIN spends her time on campus at work, APO, volunteering, or reading. She is a double major in Religious Studies and English. At home, she follows her cat around seeking validation and dis- traction from her impending demise. ERICA SCHAUMBERG is an Art History ma-
jor from the class of 2018. From an early age, she has always believed it is 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.
TOM SEGERSTROM is a senior Mathemati- cal Economics major and has a minor in Mathematics. His interests include read- ing, photography, hiking, sailing, study- ing economic theory, and serving others through his local church. His interest in photography grew while studying in the modern, innovative city of Copenhagen, Denmark, the spring of his junior year at Gettysburg. He plans to pursue a career in the investment management field after college.
SAMANTHA SIOMKO says, “I’m an overen- thusiastic biologist who thinks my life is too interesting to keep to myself. I write these things down partially to share what I’ve learned and partially to help myself remember that the world is a diverse and beautiful place.”
DANIELLA SNYDER says of her photo, “This photo was taken during a weekend trip to Innsbruck, Austria. The Nordkette is the highest peak in Innsbruck, and we traveled 7,000 feet to the top. Once there, the fog prohibited me from taking photos of the city, but I was really intrigued by the omi- nous and eerie feelings portrayed by the lack of human presence.”
RHIANNON WINNER is a Political Science major with a double minor in Peace & Jus- tice and Middle Eastern & Islamic Stud- ies. At Gettysburg, she volunteers, makes killer salads at Ike’s, and attends meetings for the myriad clubs she is a part of. In her free time, you can find her working on her novel or chasing after people to pet their dogs.
ELLIANIE VEGA is a first-year who is major- ing in English with a Writing Concentra- tion. In addition to working on The Mer- cury, she also has her own radio show and loves going to Poetry Circle. She loves all pinks that are not hot pink, Jack Kerouac, Japanese disco/funk music, and going over the word count.
ZOE YEOH is a junior Biochemistry and Mo- lecular Biology major and Studio Art mi- nor. She is the co-president of Biosphere. She is the PR Assistant for the Art Depart- ment, a Biology Research Assistant in Dr. Jennifer Powell’s lab, and a Chemistry Lab prep assistant. She enjoys working in many art mediums and styles, but is particularly interested in the crossover between science and art.