The Interns

2011-2012 

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Lauren Wilford

Lauren Wilford is a junior from Boise, Idaho, working on a student-designed major in Aesthetics and Narrative Studies. This means that she flits between theatre, film, art history and English but thinks they're all about the same thing. In sixth grade, she started reading the entertainment section of The Idaho Statesman cover to cover; this fairly arbitrary habit gave way to a lifelong obsession with movie reviews. She is fascinated both by tortured spiritual heroes (Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther) and protagonists of contemporary indie films. Her goal is to make you think that they have something in common. Lauren is the web marketing intern for IMAGE in addition to being dramaturg and promotions assistant for SPU's Theatre Department. She blogs about movies and music. 

Heidi McElrath

Heidi is a senior English major at SPU who likes to be involved in everything. She's a combination actor, writer, curator, editor, tutor, honors student, and Shakespeare enthusiast. She's always buying new books she has no time to read, reading them anyway, and catching up on old episodes of Doctor Who. She's a joyful participant in National Novel Writing Month and hopes to someday write a novel people would actually want to read. She occasionally blogs her poetry and fiction. As they say in her home country: don't forget to be awesome.

Hannah Koeske

Hannah graduated from the University of Washington with a BFA in Painting and Drawing. Against her better nature, she tends these days to adopt a dualist perspective:

dualism |ˈd(y)oōəˌlizəm|
noun
1 the division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided.

For instance, many of her days break into the following doubles:  Exciting need to create a project laden with mess spars with latent homemaking tendencies revolving around, but limited to, immediately gratifying maintenance tasks like keeping things neat or more or less clean.  Arbitrary asceticism (“today I will do my laundry, go for a very long run, and then, after reading about everything I’m not interested in, bake/cook my least favorite foods of which I will consume very little”) dukes it out with an equally arbitrary Epicurean bent (“creativity should be easy…  easy!  Therefore, if I am struggling with something that is not pleasurable at the moment, I had better stop”).  For the curious, here are sample products of attempts that were fortunately finished.

On the upside, conflicts like these, trivial as they are, are helping me (discarding third person) find ways to enter into conflicts more universal, and—possibly—true.  Silliness, profundity, and struggle seem to produce a strange mixture in most people of happiness and growth.  More to the point, I’m extremely lucky to be working at IMAGE this year.  The people I’ve met are sustaining.  I believe in the journal’s work. 

Jacky Neumiller

Jacky Neumiller is a senior at Seattle Pacific University, double majoring in English and Communication. Along with a full-credit workload she is member of SPU’s varsity rowing program, a youth group leader for her home church in West Seattle, and an avid classics reader. She spends her days dreaming of reading the books she has merely brushed her fingers along in the library. She is an etymology guru and only hopes that she will spend the rest of her days working with the crisp words that she has fallen in love with.

Paul Tomes

Paul Tomes is the youngest captain in Starfleet and has led the USS Enterprise for over three decades. When he was younger, he invaded Poland and attempted to annex the Sudetenland while still being the most likely candidate to be the true author of the canon attributed to William Shakespeare. Many Brazilians are hoping Paul decides to run for president in their upcoming elections because his economic policy is both innovative and far reaching.

Paul is so excited to be part of IMAGE, he's legally changed his name to Paul Art Faith Mystery Tomes.

2011 Luci Shaw Fellow - Hannah Crippen

Raised in Minnesota, Hannah recently graduated with a B.A. in English from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Besides writing, she’s recently discovered a love of cooking, a pleasure that’s convinced her there's special magic in a good bell pepper, red onion, and dash of chipotle hot sauce. Still, her happiest moments involve curling on the couch with a book in one hand and a cup of strong coffee in the other—a perfect fit for Seattle! Living in Nottingham, England, for a year confirmed Hannah’s great eagerness for travel, which is visible in the ample postcards and photographs covering her bedroom walls. As Shaw Fellow, Hannah was thrilled to add three new destinations to her traveling credentials: she joined the IMAGE staff in Seattle and assisted at the Glen East Workshop in South Hadley, MA and at the Glen West Workshop in Santa Fe, NM.

For more information about the Luci Shaw Fellowship, click here.