Emma Grace Connelly
Emma Grace Connelly is an architecture major that’s found herself immersed in English classes as well. When she’s not playing with 3D printers and Exacto knives, she’s typing away at a novel or posting about it on her writing page. She’ll start pursuing her Master’s in architecture at Clemson this fall.
Tori Jackson
Tori Jackson is a graduate English student and humanitarian activist. Her interests in editing and publishing come from a deeper love of writing and unveiling the power of words. In the future, she’d like to become an established author and expand her local nonprofit, the South Carolina Upstate Humanitarian Hub, that aims to create third spaces where art and writing act as common ground for connection and unity within the community. In addition, Tori is applying her skills from The South Carolina Review to the group newsletter which consists of student writing, think pieces, and current events. She looks forward to the chance to be a full time editor of her own literary magazine!
Serena Johnson
This is Serena! She is an aspiring editor and major foodie, and is wholly incapable of liking anything in a casual capacity (her current obsessions are Arcane and Tracy Deonn’s The Legendborn Cycle). These days, she spends about sixteen hours a day curating Pinterest boards for various fictional works and the remaining eight hours eating, missing her dog (he’s at home with her lovely family), and hoping the cat distribution system will bless her. She is a junior English major at Clemson with a dual minor in creative writing and brand communications.
Kristen Huynh
Kristen Huynh is a senior English major who loves reading fantasy, writing literary fiction, watching period dramas, and baking when she has deadlines to meet. Some of her permanent obsessions are Bridgerton, Percy Jackson, and Pinterest. This fall, she’ll be starting law school at UofSC (don’t worry—once a tiger, always a tiger!), unless she decides to fulfill that café-bookstore-bakery dream instead.
Brett Porter
Brett is a sophomore English major at Clemson from Massachusetts. In his free time, he enjoys reading, playing sports, and fishing. His favorite author is Kurt Vonnegut who ignited his love for reading and writing. Besides that, he loves to play fantasy football and has won a total of four league championships with his friends. Brett believes that an otter best resembles his personality and aspires to be one when he grows up.
Caroline Anderson
Caroline Anderson is a senior English major from New York, though her accent and attitude only come out every once in a while. Caroline enjoys reading and correcting other people’s grammar. She is situationally a big enthusiast of the Oxford comma but limits herself to only correcting it every other day. Caroline’s favorite author is Mary Shelley, and she is currently planning her move to Galway to get her Master’s Degree.
Rachel Bertram
Rachel Bertram is a DJ at Clemson’s alternative radio station, WSBF-FM. They spend their free time playing guitar, pickling veggies, and writing letters they will never send. They are inspired by the living room routine from The Perks of Being a Wallflower, one-liner Letterboxd reviews, and sitting beside large bodies of water.
Ashtyn Goff
Meet Ashtyn! She’s an English grad student who spends all of her time reading young adult literature. In other words, she never got over The Hunger Games and has found a way to make that her personality. She runs a book-related Instagram and YouTube channel where she makes her book obsession everyone else’s problem. She recently discovered a love for fan art and always has a Pinterest tab open. She also adores soul-crushing movies or anything with Christian Bale in it. Speaking of Christian Bale, she loves Little Women and currently has eight editions of the book on her shelves. Outside of fangirling, Ashtyn enjoys national parks, cute dogs, and crocheting—oh, and SCR, of course.
Ella Kindt
Ella Kindt is a poet and graduating English major with a crippling houseplant addiction. She’s pursuing an MFA in poetry at North Carolina State University in the fall of 2025. She spends her free time playing guitar, singing off-key and reading gothic horror novels. Her current favorite song is Katya’s verse in “Read You, Wrote You” from the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 2. She’s obsessed with the color green.
Makenzie Anderson
Makenzie Anderson is a writer from South Carolina. In May 2025, she will graduate from Clemson University with a B.A. in English and a minor in poetry. She will attend Virginia Tech’s MFA Poetry program in the fall of 2025. Her poetry explores girlhood and womanhood, sapphic identity, and familial relations. She channels her southernness while simultaneously addressing coastal South Carolina’s haunting and alienating powers in her writing. She also adores hummingbirds and the color lavender.
Jennifer Terry
Jennifer Terry is a graduating MA in English student who enjoys reading, writing, and playing The Sims 4. She is currently obsessed with all of her friends’ dogs and loves the color pink. Jennifer lives for weird stories and poetry that deals with grief and loss. Sometimes she wishes she was a worm.
