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Role: Graduate Students

Ryan Everett

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Ryan Everett is a product of Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2007 and went onto to Wartburg College, where he earned a BA in Secondary English Education. Since, he has long-term subbed for several years...

Taylor Sklenar

Lecturer [ENGL]

Taylor Sklenar is a playwright, poet, and theatre artist pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing and the Environment. He received his Bachelors’ degrees in chemistry, English, and performing arts from ISU and his MA in Theatre from the University of...

Emily Riley-Smith

Lecturer [ENGL]

Emily Riley worked in Hyogo, Japan as an English teacher before joining ISU's Creative Writing and Environment program. She experienced intersections of language and culture firsthand. For the first time in a long time, she was illiterate, and she had...

Alana Jones

Affiliate

Alana Jones is passionate about corn, a gas station pizza enthusiast and eager to try deep fried butter at the prestigious Iowa State Fair. This California native completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa in genetics and also...

Lindsey Huber

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Lindsey Huber is obtaining her Master’s in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication and a graduate minor in Women and Gender Studies. She graduated from Iowa State University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and minored in Women...

Peter Haleas

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Peter Haleas is a writer and Iowa State University MFA student from Western Springs, Illinois. He spent the last four years living in Mizokuchi, Tottori, Japan as an English teacher on the JET Program. His favorite writers are Herman Hesse,...

Emily Golden

Lecturer [ENGL]

Emily Golden is a first year MFA CWE candidate with a Bachelors from Willamette University in English and Theatre. She splits her time between fiction and playwriting, focusing in both cases on the intersections between myth, science, and human consciousness....

Andrea Flinn

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Andrea Flinn is a PhD student in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program at Iowa State University. Andrea holds an MA degree in TESOL from San Francisco State University and a BA in Communication from Cornell University. She has taught...

Natalie Deam

Lecturer [A V C]

Natalie Deam is an Ames local, happy to be back in the Midwest after studying in France and California. She received a PhD in French literature from Stanford University in 2019 and completed her BAs in French, English, and Comparative...

Charles Castinado

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Jordan Castinado is a first-year student in the Creative Writing and Environment program, and a Pearl Hogrefe Fellow for 2019-2020. Jordan earned his BFA in creative writing at Prescott College in central Arizona, where he fell in love with the...

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