2021 Arcturus Editing Team

Emily Hamilton is attending Highline College. After recovering from a Traumatic Brain Injury she taught herself to read again by using poetry. Expanding on this, Emily took Creative Writing classes, is an Editor of Arcturus, and will be transitioning to her BAS degree at Highline College in the fall.  In her free time, she enjoys studying philosophy, camping, and exploring local parks with her pug Wookie, learning photography, and hopefully finding new ways to not kill the plants on the balcony. 

Jenn Ngeth is a returning student to Highline finishing up her AA. To balance out her school life and sanity, she spends her time in the kitchen blending flavors of Southeast Asia; to create dishes to suit her tastebuds. She tends to her growing plant family while enjoying random documentaries or any of Shinichiro Watanabe’s works––Samurai Champloo being her favorite.

Kiera Golden will graduate Highline with an AA-Emphasis in English. She is the Lead Tutor at Highline’s Writing Center and an Editor for Arcturus 2021. She recently moved to Montana, where she is working on her 1990 Manual Toyota 4Runner. She is passionately involved with Film/Digital Photography, Nature, Mental Health Advocacy, Teaching, and Creative Writing.

Mireille Inema-Mwizerwa is a running start student who is receiving her AA degree with an emphasis in Mathematics in the spring of 2021. She has always had a love for writing but wasn’t confident enough to start to write properly or share any of her pieces with other people. She got introduced to writing poems in a creative writing class at Highline, where she gained more appreciation for editing. She continues to write in her free time, to release to stimulate her brain creatively. 

Patty Wells was born in the Midwest but has called the PacNW her home for the last twenty-plus years. She is currently enrolled at Highline College with plans to transfer to the University of Washington to pursue a creative writing degree. In her free time, she loves to travel, garden, and feed the murder of crows in her backyard.

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.