Katrina Vandenberg is the author of The Alphabet Not Unlike the World (2012) and Atlas: Poems (2004), both published by Milkweed Editions. With poet Todd Boss, she is co-author of the chapbook On Marriage (Red Dragonfly Press). Her essays and poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Blackbird, The Southern Review, Orion, The Iowa Review, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poets and Writers, and other journals; and several anthologies, including Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Borealis). Read full Hamline faculty profile.

Hillary Walker lives in Minneapolis, yet spends much of her time in St. Paul working at an inner city mission. Her writing topics vary from the struggles of an urban setting to a childhood spent in a farmhouse surrounded by cornfields. Besides writing, she takes pleasure in a keen Scottish jig or reel, and if you look carefully she can be spotted dancing at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival as a part of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Hating fear as much as she loves adventure, propels her to go to foreign places often not traveled. She is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at Hamline University, and last year enjoyed being on the editorial nonfiction board for the Water~Stone Review. 

Originally from Virginia, Jenniey lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and their 3 sons. Her recent writing is published or forthcoming in Electric Lit, Nashville Review, DIAGRAM, The Austin Review, and Slice, among others. Currently completing her MFA in poetry at Hamline, she also assists behind the scenes for Runestone Literary Journal and is the Communications Assistant in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline. Find her online at jennieytallman.com

A transplant from the fields of Iowa to the deep forests and flowing waters of Minnesota, Sophia delights in the natural world and considers it to be her writing muse. She is fascinated by the complexities of the written word and the hidden marvels of the brain, which explains why she savored the opportunity to pursue a double major in Creative Writing and Psychology with a double minor in English and Linguistics at Hamline. Equipped with a deep, reverent appreciation of research and heavily laden bookshelves, Sophia is currently delving deeper into her studies of creative nonfiction in the Hamline MFA program after graduating from the undergraduate program this past spring.

Paul is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and journalist. One of his screenplays, Two Too Many, was featured at the 2014 ACTC Film Festival and his most recent short film, Death of the Newsman, is streaming online. Originally from Washington, D.C., he lives in Minneapolis and likes to drink scotch, line edit, and go to rock concerts. Paul is in the low residency MFA for Writing program at Pacific University in Oregon. He graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University in Spring 2016.

Rebecca Drobinski is a born and raised Minnesotan. Most days, she thinks about life as a hermit in the woods, cozied up with books and blankets. She hopes to one day write good things.

Meghan Maloney-Vinz is the managing editor of all three literary journals of The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University: Runestone; rock, paper, scissors (the in-program graduate student journal); and Water~Stone Review, the nationally acclaimed literary annual. Meghan also works as the director of the Hamline Young Writers Workshop. Aside from her work with The Creative Writing Programs, Maloney-Vinz is also a founding member and layout manager for broadcraft press.

Chelsea DeLong is a graduate student at Hamline University in St. Paul, pursing her MFA in fiction. Originally from Michigan, Chelsea has found her home in the Twin Cities and all of its rich literary history. She’s worked with Water~Stone Review for a year and can usually be found writing her novel, cooking, and running around Hamline’s campus.

Allison recently graduated from Hamline University where she majored in Creative Writing and minored in English and Business. Her favorite writers are Anton Chekhov and Ray Bradbury. Besides reading and writing, she loves to paint, finding inspiration from the Cubism movement. She lives in the ‘burbs with a pup named Murphy who barks… at trees.