2017 Arcturus Editing Team

A Running Start Senior, Allison Deboer has been writing for as long as she remembers. Allison will be graduating this Spring, and then attending Seattle Pacific University in the Fall where she will be majoring in Creative Writing. Allison is also interested in potentially studying ESL Linguistics in graduate work. One day Allison hopes to be a teacher, editor, or journalist. 

A Running Start Senior at Highline, Cindy Ngo first found out about Arcturus through her English 101 class but never imagined she’d be able to be part of Arcturus. Cindy enjoys Creative Writing and poetry immensely, but she is aiming for a Master’s in Library Science and Information. Cindy loves literature and books and hopes to surround herself with them in her future. Cindy hopes to stay at Highline until she transfers to a university. 

Currently a Running Start Senior at Highline, Elizabeth Abramchuk has been drawing for a sizeable amount of her life and wants to pursue art in the future. She loves running and hiking and used to do cross country and track. Elizabeth took creative writing in 2016 and fell in love with poetry. The first time she came across Arcturus she was fascinated by how writing, photography, and art came together in this book. 

Harper Villani is a second year student here at Highline College. The opportunity to get involved in Arcturus fell into her lap. When she started at Highline, Harper never saw herself getting involved on campus, but as time went on she found herself doing just that, and happily. Last year, Harper participated in a poetry contest on campus and fell in love with poetry, as well as fiction. 

A second-year student at Highline, Lindsey Brunk is finishing up her Associate's degree with an emphasis in English. She is an aspiring novelist writing short fiction and hopes to one day publish one of her stories. Lindsey is looking to transfer to a university for degrees in either English or Folklore. Lindsey is an avid reader and photographer and hopes to someday visit Ireland and Scotland. 

Susan Rich, Arcturus Faculty Advisor, earned a BA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MA in international and comparative education from Harvard University. Rich is the author six poetry collections, including Blue Atlas (Red Hen Press); Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry); Cloud Pharmacy (White Pine Press); The Alchemist’s Kitchen (White Pine Press), which was a finalist for both the Forward Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World (White Pine Press, 2000) which won the PEN USA Award for Poetry and the Peace Corps Writers Book Award. Rich teaches at Highline College and lives in Seattle.