Interns
Mary Egan is a recent graduate at Lewis University and is currently interning with a publishing company in Chicago. She is the founder of the Jet Fuel Review, a student-run literary journal, and still blogs for them at the Lewis Lit Journal Blog.
Madeline Marucha is an udergraduate student at Amherst College. She writes
poetry
and reads a lot of modern American literature. She spent part of her summer helping
Fifth Wednesday Journal learn the intricacies and complexities of fund raising
for
non-profit organizations. We are anticipating her return to help us once more
in 2012.
Sara Peck is an MFA-Poetry student at Columbia College and serves as an editor of the Columbia Poetry Review. She has been published in trnsfr, Columbia Poetry Review, and anderbo, among others. From Charleston, South Carolina, she currently lives and writes with her cat Kazoo in Chicago.
Erin Wisti is working towards a MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois and currently lives in the Lakeview area. Born and raised in rural Michigan, Erin received a BA in English from Michigan State University in May of this year. Her work has been published in Red Cedar Review, Ampersand Review, and various online new sites.
When I asked our Intern, Rebecca Sage, why she wanted to donate her time with FWJ, she responded quickly: “I have loved to read as long as I can remember. I begged my mother, perhaps a little too soon, to teach me how to read. I began slow with classics like Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal both by Robert McCloskey. By the age of ten I graduated to what is now referred to as 'young adult fiction.' Like many preteen females, Beverly Cleary was my savior. If it were not for characters like Ramona Quimby, Ribsy and Ralph S. Mouse my childhood would not have been so sweet. I began maturing a little too quickly in middle school, when my mother caught me reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, she said something to the effect of “you're too young for that.” In high school I discovered my favorite writer, Emerson. It was after I began reading his work that I realized the love I have for words, and decided that whatever I choose to do with my life, they must be included. I am now pursuing a degree in English literature at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.”