Volume Six Runestone Editors

Genni Callaway is a current BFA student at Hamline University and self-proclaimed time traveler. When not flinging words on paper, she enjoys listening to music, exploring places that ought to be left alone, and attempting to cook.

Aimee Engles is a senior at Hamline University. She is a creative writing major who focuses on fiction, and dabbles a bit in poetry. Outside of school Aimee enjoys reading, spending time with her children and being outdoors.

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Sean Farrell is your everyday 21-year old. He’s currently studying at Hamline University in St. Paul, attempting to earn a major in creative writing and a minor in English. He loves writing as a means of creating a world and storyline better than the cold, unforgiving world he finds himself living in.

Sydney Holets is a senior at Hamline University studying creative writing with a focus on poetry. Her creative work has been previously published by Visitant Literary Journal, the Fulcrum, The Yellowjacket Review, and Rochester Post-Bulletin. Her self-published chapbook, In Full Bloom, was released December 2018.

Kelly Holm is a member of Hamline University’s class of 2021. She is an award-winning student journalist for The Oracle and an English and creative writing double major. Besides Runestone, she’s interned with Sentinel Publications, Elicit Magazine and GenZ Publishing. She hopes to find work as a professional writer. 

Eliot Joy lives between a couple rivers and near a few lakes. Their poetry can be found in Forever Falling Sideways, produced by the Icarus Project. Their love of writing has been fostered since they were six years old.

Jack Kobs is an aspiring comedian living in New York City. He lives with his math professor father Abe, and art enthusiast mother, Rose. He has just embarked on a tour with singer Shy Baldwin and leaves his two children Esther and Ethan with their father.

Rebekah Krotzer is a coffee aficionado who loves to travel. She writes CNF, short fiction, and dabbles in travel writing.

Ann Marie Leimbach is a senior at Hamline University studying music and creative writing. Besides writing, their passions include playing flute and complaining about playing the flute. 

Maria Lewis, originally from Chicago, is studying creative writing at Hamline University. She is also a midfielder on the Hamline women’s lacrosse team.

K McClendon is a junior at Hamline University where they study creative writing. K competes nationally as a spoken word artist. They have been an avid Button Poetry fan for many years and are an intern at the company. 

Gabriel Mianulli earned his AFA in creative writing from Normandale College and is working towards a BFA from Hamline University, with plans to pursue an MFA eventually. An Associate Editor for Poetry City, his work also appears in Writer’s Resist, Minnesota’s Best Emerging Poets, The Paper Lantern, and elsewhere. 

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Ryan Saufferer is a senior at Hamline University majoring in creative writing. Prior to pursuing his academic interests, he served four years in the Navy as a Nuclear Machinist Mate. Now he enjoys deep-diving through science fiction and fantasy stories. 

Anna Wagner is a junior at Hamline University studying creative writing and mathematics. If she’s not writing poems or tutoring calculus, she’s crocheting cat sweaters while watching Midsommar for the umpteenth time.

Ana Yang is a creative writing student at Hamline. When not doing anything for academics, she likes to read and write things that would crush her because if it crushes her, it will possibly definitely crush her readers.