Students | Pg 2 | Department of English

Current Students

Elise LeSage

Elise LeSage is a first-year fiction writer and freelance book marketing specialist. Her stories have appeared in the horror anthology podcast PseudoPod, literary magazines like Buckman Journal, UCLA’s Westwind, and elsewhere. She earned her English BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was awarded the undergraduate writing awards for poetry (2018) and creative nonfiction (2019).


Calista Malone

Calista Malone

CALISTA MALONE is a second-year poet from the North Florida panhandle. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Auburn University. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Stream MagazineNaugatuck River ReviewSaw Palm, and elsewhere. She serves as a Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review.


Justin Nash

Justin Nash

JUSTIN NASH is a poet and visual artist from Delaware. A former intern of Copper Canyon Press and the Fine Arts Work Center, he currently serves as the Managing Editor for The Greensboro Review and is a senior reader in poetry for Cherry Tree. Find him on twitter @lochnashmonster.

 


Margarite Nathe

Margarite Nathe is a writer and editor from central Florida. She works in nonprofit communications and lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina.


Nick Powell

Nick Powell is a first-year poet who holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s from Coastal Carolina University. His work discusses trauma, spirituality, and US imperialism. His poems have recently appeared in Cider Press Review, Split Rock Review, and Bluestem Magazine.


Sierra Stonebraker

Sierra Stonebraker

SIERRA STONEBRAKER is a second-year MFA student in fiction at UNCG. Her work has appeared in The Greensboro Review and Allegory Ridge’s fiction anthology Archipelago. She grew up in the high desert of Southern California and lived in Seattle, WA before moving to Greensboro. She currently serves as a Fiction Editor for The Greensboro Review.


Bri Summey

Bri Summey is an Appalachian writer from Madisonville, Tennessee. She was voted Class Clown in high school and has a Bachelor’s in English from Berea College.


Caroline White

Caroline White

CAROLINE WHITE is a second-year poetry student from Laurel, Maryland. Her poem “peaches” won the 2019 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry, and her work has also appeared in Askew MagazineShe currently serves as a Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review.


Katie Worden

Katie Worden

KATIE WORDEN is a fiction writer and second-year MFA student from New York. She is a recipient of the Fred Chappell Fellowship and the Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize. In addition to teaching undergraduate writing and composition, she has served as an Assistant for the Humanities Network Consortium and currently serves as an editorial assistant for The Greensboro Review.


Kay Zeiss

Kay Zeiss

KAY ZEISS is a gender queer poet & somatic therapist from Chicago, IL, writing through the lens of ecology, ancestry & embodiment. Their work is featured or forthcoming in SalamanderLavender Review, Peculiar Journal & Broken Spells Zine.