2024 Arcturus Editing Team

Kelly Carter is a spirited improviser, performing at Comedy Sportz in Seattle every other Sunday. Beyond her comedic talents, she is an honor student pursuing majors in psychology and art. Giving back to her community brings her joy. Kelly also offers unwavering support to her son as he pursues a social justice degree at university. Inspired by a desire to make a difference, Kelly aspires to work in suicide prevention, striving to offer hope and support to those in need. She’s happy to be here at Highline and hopes y'all will come hangout with her at an improv show! 

Trapped in a hidden basement underneath Highline and subsisting on loose manuscript pages and the tears of biochemistry students, Jae has been working tirelessly on the new Arcturus website. Finally freed from his burdens, he has returned to his old comforts like creative writing, listening to music, and playing video games.

Diana Kuzin is a Running Start student, graduating with an AA concentrated in English, hoping to become an editor. She spends a lot of her free time serving at her church, whether it is in choir, youth band, or Russian school. If she’s not studying or helping out at church, she can be found binging-reading some random book off her shelves or playing classical music on her beloved piano. Things Diana loves: her niece, drawing, long road trips, snow, summer, and Pinterest. 

Allah, also known as Ali, is a second year student here at Highline. He is studying an AA double major of history and drama. He is also involved elsewhere on campus often, working as a math tutor and Inter-Cultural Peer Facilitator. He is usually a more academic writer and reader, but also has found a great passion for creative pursuits leading to his introduction to editing. Outside of his curricular and extracurricular activities, he also enjoys leisure activities like watching shows, movies, playing video games, and acting.

Lucas is attending Highline for his final year. He is an up-and-coming writer ready to transfer to a new college for the pursuit of a writing program. His writing tends to focus on fiction ranging from fantasy to thriller. When not engrossed with the experience of writing or fighting through assignments, his interests lie in video games, tabletop role-playing games, reading, cooking, watching films, and taking care of his two dogs.

Caitlin is a Highline student studying creative writing. She is actively involved with the poetry scene on campus as a member of the National Poetry Month Committee. Her interest in creative writing and editing stems from a love of reading. She loves to gather socially with book clubs to discuss her favorite genre, romance. In her free time you will often find her expressing her creativiity in the kitchen, cooking a savory soup or baking up a batch of brown butter chocolate chunk cookies.

Jamie Wilson is the current Faculty Advisor for Arcturus, Highline College’s literary arts magazine. Back in 2012, Jamie earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Wichita State University, where he specialized in fiction and served as a founding editor for mojo, Wichita State’s international literary journal. These days, Jamie writes short stories, teaches writing, and rides his bike a lot. Jamie is super excited to work on Arcturus because he believes in creative writing and the arts as powerful forces for good in all of our lives. Arcturus is such a unique platform for celebrating and uplifting our community’s diverse voices and creative talents; Jamie is very grateful to be a part of it.

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.

Hye-Yoon immigrated to the U.S. from Korea about seven years ago. She learned English at Highline College ESL, and she began a new American life. After finishing AAS Visual Communication, she finally graduated from BAS Integrated Design in 2023 at Highline. At Highline's print shop, she has been working there for five consecutive years as a print production specialist and graphic designer since she was a student until now. She works together every year as a graphic designer for NPM and Arcturus.