Fall 2007 Editors

Lisa Williams - Assistant Editor/Title Page and Table of Contents Designer

• Senior Bible and Religion and English Major
• "People often find my double major a very strange combination, but for me it makes perfect sense. English has taught me to think critically, to think beyond the boundaries, to look deeper than the surface. My other major has taught me how to better understand people, the lives they lead, and why they believe what they believe. Writing is a way for me to combine these two things. Buried down deep in all of us is something that burns, that makes us who we are. When I write, that "something" finds a way out of my soul and perhaps, one day will find a place in the soul of someone else, and we will understand each other better because of it."

Dusten Carlson - Marketing and Publicity Manager/Assistant Editor

• Senior English Major and Creative Writing Minor
• "As a late transfer student, I have had my share of difficulties getting involved in my major. For me, writing is not just something I have, some hobby I like to do, it’s all I have and all I can do well. I find that when I slip into narrative, I am able to communicate better and really glean some type of higher understanding on the perspective of the types of characters I invent – characters who are usually very different from myself that portray different life experiences, but each character is also an individual who carries a small piece of myself and something I once thought, felt, or grappled with. Writing is how I understand the human race and how I participate in it. Writing is what makes me human."

Abby Dennis - Assistant Editor/Cover Page Designer

• Sophomore Theater Studies and Writing Major
• Personal Statement: "Psychology is a fascinating study of all the pretty (or not so pretty) terms that make all the nuances of people seem ordered and logical. I’m a storyteller; I study people."

Rachel L. Heck - Assistant Editor

• Senior English Major
• Personal Statement: "I am both an audio and visual learner and it reflects in my taste of varied story mediums: whether it be watching a film, a play, reading a poem or a novel, or listening to a piece of music – with or without visual accompaniment, I become entranced and absorbed. We may escape from reality, but we may also escape into it. I champion truth and any form that it may assume. I love the power of story – its themes, its ideals, its characters, its vision – it is through this observation and consideration of others and their ideas through which we begin to understand and, ultimately, find ourselves."

Matthew C.J. Donovan - Web Page Editor/Assistant Editor

• Senior English and Computer Science Major
• "For most of my life I believed that music was the only way to convey pure emotion and feeling. Music represented, for me, the ineffible nature of love, life, sorrow, joy, and pain. However, I soon discovered that literature is a fine tool by which to explore those same facets. Literature has helped me to transcend from the world of unexplained beauty into a world of detailed and imaginative delights."
  After graduation, Matt will be pursuing a career with State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, Illinois, as a Systems Analyst.

Zola Noble - Literary Arts Magazine Faculty Advisor

• Zola Troutman Noble is a member of the English department at Anderson University. She is an AU alumna, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English in 1968. She also has an master's degree in education from the University of St. Francis, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and master of fine arts in writing from Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky.

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