2022 Arcturus Editing Team

Jenn Ngeth returns in 2022 to be an editor for Arcturus. She 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.

Rosie Pound was born in Seattle but raised in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. She earned her first Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Portland and is now at Highline College pursuing her second bachelor’s degree, this time for Environmental Science. Rosie enjoys reading, writing, painting, sewing, and basically any other kind of creative activity. You can find her most of the time playing video games, sleeping, or watching funny cat videos.

Ruby Cofer is a senior in high school, participating in the Running Start program to prepare for university. She is an avid writer who loves to spend her free time working on writing fantasy books and short stories taking place in magic-based universes struck with turmoil. Most of her time is spent either reading or writing. She’s participating in the Hugo House Young Writer’s Prose Cohort for a second time and loves meeting with her friends in the group. But when she isn’t focused on writing, Ruby is likely spending time with her friends and family playing video and board games or snuggling up with her puppy, Padme.

Sarah Sutherland-Field is a Senior in the Running Start program at Highline College. She spends most of her time listening to punk rock, playing her eclectic guitar, and jamming with friends. While she is a musician who writes her own songs, she also creates her own poetry. Her identity as a young queer woman often seeps into her music and writings. Most recently, Sarah was a teen DJ at KEXP, during this time she discovered her passion for radio. Outside of writing and music, she loves all things Halloween and horror. 

Zereen Hazel Gesmundo is a current Running Start student attending Highline exploring different pathways. She's a part of a program within Chinatown called YouthCan, which provides a place for her and other BIPOC teens to appreciate the arts. It was through this program that she was able to find out that her life would be empty without creating art. In her free time, she loves to watch Studio Ghibli movies, bake for her loved ones, and draw things that hold a special place in her art. 

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.