Aurora Staff: 2012

Lauren Blanchard is the Poetry Editor for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. She is a Senior English major with an emphasis in Creative Writing. After graduation, she hopes to get her masters in teaching and teach high school English. She enjoys reading, as well as spending time with family and friends.

Brittany Deen is the Managing Editor for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. She is a Junior English major with an emphasis in Literature and Creative Writing. After graduation, she hopes to buy a Recreational Vehicle and live on the road like a vagabond. She enjoys reading and writing, video games, class, and work.
"We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness" — Her future according to William Wordsworth’s "Resolution and Independence"

Miranda Huffman is the Fiction Editor for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. She is a Junior English major with an emphasis in Literature. After graduation, she hopes to live in England and be really happy. She enjoys reading, going to concerts, and playing with puppies.
"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads." — Sherman Alexie

Myranda James is the Publicity Manager for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. She is a Senior English major with an emphasis in Literature and Creative Writing. After graduation, she hopes to work at a publication house in New York City publishing fiction. She enjoys reading, crafting, and planning events.
"Womanly always, discouraged never." — Jobelle Holcombe

Amanda Johnson is the Submission Manager/Awesome Staff Member for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. She is a Senior English major with an emphasis in Technical and Creative Writing. After graduation, she hopes to get a job in a publishing house, and pen the great American fantasy novel. She enjoys reading, writing, baking, and taking care of her two children. She was published in Aurora in 2009.
"She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting." — R.D. Larson

Jerry Edwin Lay is the Non-Fiction Editor for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. He is a Junior English major with an emphasis in Creative Writing. After graduation, he hopes to write full time. He enjoys reading, hiking unmarked trails, and insomnia induced brainstorming.

David Neal is the Web Dude Man for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. He is a Super Senior English major with an emphasis in Creative Writing. After graduation, he hopes to live in a box and write stories on the walls of said box. He enjoys professional gaming (specifically fighting games).
"I don’t do drugs, I am drugs" —Salvador Dali

Cassandra Scott is the Art and Media Editor for the Aurora Online Literary and Arts Journal. She is a Junior English major with an emphasis in Secondary Teaching. After graduation, she hopes to become a teacher and tour Europe. She enjoys spending time laughing with family and friends. She has had one novel published: It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost (2009).
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end." — Unknown