The mission of our literary magazine is to publish new voices from the Ivy Tech community to provide a public forum for the stories, poems, plays, memoirs, and art created by our students, faculty, and staff. The magazine is a product of the Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington English Department.

Each year, instructors nominate students as editors, and 1-3 are selected to receive Ashley Bayer Editing Scholarship.

VOLUME XIX STUDENT EDITORS

Alexys Ingram is a student at Ivy Tech. She plans on completing her associate degree in general studies before transferring to Purdue University to continue her education in veterinary medicine. A ten-year 4-Her, Alexys has spent hours upon hours with her beloved animals and continues to show her horse and dog in open shows whenever the opportunity arises. In her free time, she continues her work on a novel and writes for a small game that is still in production.

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Amanda Krone is a non-traditional General Studies student. She enjoyed working as the Anatomy & Physiology tutor for the Bloomington campus throughout the 2024-2025 school year. Amanda is also enrolled in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program at Caris College, where she serves as a student representative. She will complete both programs in the spring of 2026.  After graduation, Amanda intends to continue her education at a four-year university; her goal is to someday teach Anatomy & Physiology at the college level.

FACULTY ADVISOR

Christine Brandel

Christine Brandel is a writer, photographer, and teacher. Her book A Wife Is a Hope Chest was released on Halloween 2017 as the first full-length collection in the Mineral Point Poetry Series from Brain Mill Press. She is an Associate Professor of English at Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington, where she’s also the Campus Pride advisor. Her writing portfolio is available at clbwrites.com.