2020 Arcturus Editing Team

Ashlee Stone is finishing up her A.A. degree here at Highline and is hoping to move onto a BA in respiratory care in the Fall. She loves to go camping and to the beach, and writing stories in her spare time. 

Cori Arndt is in her second year of Running Start and is currently working towards getting her A.A. In her free time, she enjoys writing, reading, and painting. She also enjoys competitive swimming and baking things for her friends. In Fall 2020, Cori is planning on transferring to the University of Washington to study Creative Writing. 

Jerry R. Vorhies lives in Federal Way with his brilliant husband and harebrained corgi-shepherd canine. Jerry pursues an AA at Highline with the intent to attend the UW Tacoma for business. Being an Editor on Arcturus has been an enjoyable experience and appreciates the chance to read so many unique pieces of work. It was a real pleasure for me to read and discuss all of the wonderful pieces that were submitted. If you read my comic-strip, Cut-n-Cheese and enjoyed it, more can be found on Facebook. My story, “Breve Boys,” was inspired to tell an unapologetic outrageous and awkward story that will hopefully make you squirm and laugh out loud. 

Jiro Jones is a part time college student and store employee by day, and by night he is asleep.

However, in those in-between moments when he has nothing to do, he writes poetry or messies his hands with paint.

A large contributor to the of his work is his synesthesia. Linking words to feeling and taste is what makes art so involving and beautiful for him.

Paul Lupe is an international student from South Sudan. Having lived most of his life away from home, he uses his writing as a mobile home- a haven that he can retreat into when life around him turns difficult. 

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.