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Claire Kruesel

Post author By Nicole Phelon
Post date March 7, 2025

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Claire Kruesel (KREE-zuhl) lives and writes from Story County, Iowa, focusing primarily on the intersections of science, art, objects, and grief. She received an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. Her poetry has been published in Rattle, the anthologies Fracture and Prairie Gold, and elsewhere. Her day job involves mentoring biochemistry undergraduates on science communication. Claire also teaches Pilates and yoga, travels to France and Italy whenever she can, and sings with Ames Chamber Artists. Click here to visit Claire.

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Armaan Gupta

Post author By Nicole Phelon
Post date March 7, 2025

Armaan Gupta is a software engineer and hackathon organizer originally from Illinois. He’s a recent graduate from Iowa State University where he majored in Management Information Systems and obtained a minor in Marketing. Outside of work, Armaan writes software independently, writes poetry and short essays, and enjoys a good cigar.

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Tony Moton

Post author By Nicole Phelon
Post date March 7, 2025

Tony Moton is an educator at the college, high school and middle school levels for 14+ years, including experience as an online and on-ground academic coach, tutor and writing instructor for learners ranging from school age to adult. In both public and private service, an outstanding lecturer and instructor in sports media, journalism, broadcasting, broadcast media production, screenwriting, English and creative writing. An award-winning journalist and screenwriter with tremendous communication skills, high-quality work, driven and exceptionally self-motivated. An earner of top honors from the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation for screenwriting and the Kansas City Press Club and the Las Vegas Press Association for investigative journalism and feature writing, respectively.

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Jennifer L Knox

Post author By Brooks White
Post date June 20, 2023

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Crushing It. Knox received her bachelor’s from the University of Iowa, and her master’s of fine arts in poetry writing from New York University. Her poems have appeared five times in the “Best American Poetry” series, and in publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker and American Poetry Review. www.jenniferlknox.com.

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Ana McCracken

Ana McCracken received her Bachelor of Science and MFA in Creative Writing and Environment degrees from Iowa State University. She is currently seeking representation for her thesis, Redacted—A Memoir of Adoption. Her personal essays are published in The California Writers Club Literary Review, the anthologies Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God and The Joy of Adoption, and her poetry in Telepoem Booth®Iowa. She is the founder of the Ames Writers Collective, an organization committed to building and uplifting communities through the art of writing and storytelling, while advancing the literary arts in Ames, Iowa.

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Anna Magnusson

Anna Magnusson was adopted from Seoul, Korea and raised in Iowa. She attended high school in Des Moines and earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa. Anna serves as the executive director of Able Up Iowa. Anna’s heart is filled with love for people and their stories. She has dedicated her life to a number of nonprofit organizations and causes as a volunteer or employee, which has led to a myriad of unexpected opportunities and adventures–including stepping into the role of a radio producer and host at KHOI 89.1 FM.