Brenna Dean is a first-year Creative Writing master’s student. She loves sitting in the sun with her kitten, watching movies with friends, visiting her dogs, and doing all sorts of crafts. She’s always looking for another concert to attend with her best friends, another opportunity to write poems on Beaver Island, and another recipe she’ll probably never bake. After graduation, she hopes to pursue her MFA and spend more time staring up at the stars.

Lauren Cole is a fourth year Secondary Education major from Saginaw! She likes video games like Overwatch and Skyrim, reading, and hanging out with her friends while watching an F1 race. After graduation, she wants to teach History and Mythology, and have at least four cats!

Madison Schamber is a second-year English and Creative Writing student from Fremont, MI. She loves playing casual, cozy video games such as the Sims 4 and also playing DND. She is also obsessed with cats and currently has 7 in total. One fun fact about her is that she is currently learning Japanese and hopes to study abroad in Japan soon. After graduation, she plans to write her own fantasy and romance novels and become a published author.

Corey Hogue is a third-year English Major/Journalism minor and a creative writer from Detroit, Michigan. Aside from reading/writing in his free time, Corey also is interested in journalism, drawing, and similar mediums in his life’s quest to “tell a story.”

He enjoys playing 4x and role-playing games such as Songs of Syx and exploring and researching the mythology of various peoples like the ancient Irish and Anglo-Saxons.

Samantha Dave is a third-year English and psychology student from Lake Orion, MI. When she’s not writing poetry, she can be found listening to music, reading a new book, or playing video games. Her favorite poets are Karyna McGlynn and W. H. Auden. After graduating, she hopes to work with a publishing company reading manuscripts! This is her first year working with Central Review.

Liv O’Toole is a fourth-year English student and first-year Creative Writing master's student from Saginaw, MI. Her hobbies include listening to Taylor Swift and just kinda wandering around. Liv’s favorite genre of anything is fantasy, and in her spare time, she plays video games like Skyrim, Dragon Age, and The Witcher 3. Her favorite poets are Pablo Neruda and Mary Oliver. This is her second year as an Editor-in-Chief with The Central Review.

Cailey Calhoun is a Junior here at Central. She is studying Secondary English Education while also pursuing a minor in creative writing. She is the Treasurer of Sigma Tau Delta here at Central. She is from a tiny town east of Grand Rapids called Lowell, Michigan. In her free time, Cailey likes to read as much as she can, write tons and tons of mediocre poetry, and go on very long walks through campus and the parks around town. She is a book nerd through and through who hopes to instill a love of literature in her future students as a teacher.

Bri Edgar is an English student from Hartland, MI. When she isn’t working or in class, she is constantly on her computer working on whatever she’s writing at the time. She loves fantasy romance novels, playing on her switch, and pro wrestling.

​Hays Fischer (they/them/theirs) is a writer studying Sociology at CMU. They were previously published in Central Review!

Em Hazel is a bright-eyed elusive manic currently holding the role of a Junior at Central

Michigan University. She has always dedicated herself to majoring in English, not to mention the creative writing minor, but has also taken up a Logistics Management and Marketing major to complement the controlling slytherin-istic aspects inside of her. To walk the fine line of art and business involves a special curation of growing up in the same house, in the quaint town of Swartz Creek, and traveling with her family to the far reaches of land and sea.

When not sitting by a window with a steaming cup of herbal tea, book in hand, she is

sitting somewhere in the sun writing down every thought that needs ink and paper to listen. Only during her free time does she get scheduled to work as the shift lead at her job (for now). She has two black cats and her favorite number has always been 13, yet she has a steady boyfriend of seven years and her biggest dream is to open a florist shop to sell some of the fresh flowers she and he will grow together.