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Meet Our Alumni!

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Olivia Vande Woude” position=”Graduated: 2016″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_0176.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Olivia Vande Woude attends William & Mary University, and graduated from  St. Anne’s-Belfield School. She has been writing stories for most of her life, and has recently focused her attention on writing poetry. She attended the New England Young Writers Conference and the UVA Young Writers Workshop. She was selected to read her work at the Virginia Festival of the Book, has been on the editorial staff of the Crossroads Teen Anthology and founded the Instagram account for the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center, raising the membership to 250, hosting contests, and promoting her fellow writers. Olivia  has been awarded the Arthur C. Greene Rising Star award from the Piedmont Council for the Arts, as well as the 2016 Emily Couric Leadership Scholarship Award.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Michelle Miles” position=”Graduated: 2015″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/10003852_10200925147531188_768937510_o.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Michelle Miles provided the seed, the idea which inspired the teen writing center in 2013, and has participated in its activities from its planning stages. Michelle is a recipient of the local Rising Star Awards for her photography, and inspired the Piedmont Council of the Arts to give nominating capacity to the teen writing center. Michelle is a first year at the University of Virginia, planning on a double major in English and computer science, with a minor in gender studies. She is the photographer for the UVA V magazine, and continues her involvement with the teen writing center as an adviser to the Crossroads IV anthology art editor, in addition to developing poetry workshops for the teen writing center middle school outreach.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Kamryn Crossman” position=”Graduated: 2016″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_9550.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Kamryn Crossman, a founding member of the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center, graduated from Albemarle High School in 2016 and will be attending the University of Mary Washington in the fall. A passionate writer, they were co-editor-in-chief of their award-winning school literary magazine, The Lantern, and mentored our co-editors-in-chief for the Crossroads IV anthology.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Kayli Wren” position=”Graduated: 2016″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/KayliWrenPic.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Kayli Wren graduated in 2016 from St. Anne’s-Belfield School and attends Brown University. She has been previously published in Teen Ink, as well as anthologies connected with Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center and the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. Kayli has been fascinated with the written word since kindergarten and has recently developed her love for writing both poetry and short stories. In her free time, when not writing, she enjoys watching movies, acting in theater productions, eating Pad Thai, and baking lemon squares. Kayli has interned with Charlottesville Today, a local independent news service, and is a staff writer for the Indy at Brown University. 

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Audrey Parks Attends the University of Virginia. Audrey graduated from Monticelloo High School, where she was the president of English Honor Society and a vigilante grammarist, and served as an editor for the Crossroads Teen Anthology. She has attended the Virginia Governor’s School for the Humanities and performs original poetry at local open mics. Her interest in the literary arts stems from a lifelong desire to improve the world around her. When not reading or writing, Audrey enjoys contemplating the limits of modern science, wearing good socks, and eating saltine crackers.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Sydney Nicholson” position=”Graduated: 2016″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sydney.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Sydney Nicholson is a 17-year-old artist who graduated in 2016 from Monticello High School, where she was president of the National Art Honor Society. Two of her photographs were published in the first Crossroads publication while she was a Photography One student. Sydney was recently honored with the Arthur C. Greene Rising Star Award from the Piedmont Council of the Arts for her work in the visual arts, and attends Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Marie Ungar attends Harvard University and graduated from Albemarle High School, where she served as a staff member of her school’s literary magazine, and spent three years in the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center in various editorial roles including editor-in-chief of the Crossroads Teen Anthology. Her writing has been published in many journals as well as anthologies associated with the University of Virginia Art Museum and the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center, as well as UVA’s Young Writers Workshop, which she attended this past summer. Marie earned the local Arthur C. Greene Rising Star Award for her writing from the Piedmont Council of the Arts. When not writing, Marie can be found reading, painting, drawing, running cross-country, and learning to play guitar. She is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Sooth swarm, an online literary journal. https://www.soothswarmjournal.com/

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Hanna Strauss” position=”Graduated 2015″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/hanna1.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Hanna Strauss is 19 and in the graduating class of 2019 at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She plans to graduate with an honors diploma with a major in Political Science and a minor in Spanish. She’s a Dean’s List Scholar and earned awards from the National Council on US-Arab Relations Model Arab League for her participation and research. She has also studied Arabic in Muscat, Oman through an intensive language immersion program for 2 months. She looks forward to all future opportunities and is grateful for the ones she’s received through both her internship and participation at the Teen Writing Center in Charlottesville.

[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Marina Pastor” position=”Graduated 2016″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MarinaBio-copy.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Marina Pastor Marina Pastor attends George Mason University. She graduated from Monticello High School where she was a member of the National Latin Honors Society for three years, and a member of the editorial staff as art editor for the Crossroads Teen Anthology. Marina earned the Arthur C. Greene Rising Star Award from the Piedmont Council of the Arts. Her last project was photographing the cities and countryside during her to Italy with the Paideia Institute. In her extra time, Marina enjoys writing fantasy stories, designing characters and worlds for comics, and doodling on every available surface.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Emma Patterson” position=”Graduated 2017″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EmmaPatterson.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Emma Patterson attends Old Dominion University and attended Albemarle High School serving as a staff member for the Literary/Art Magazine there. She enjoys writing mainly short stories and poetry and was published in both the AHS Lit Mag and the Tupelo Press Writing Anthology where she placed as a finalist for the Maribella Prose and Poetry Contest. She attended the UVA Young Writer’s Workshop in 2017 to improve her poetry and again in 2018 to focus on short fiction. In her free time, Emma enjoys experimenting in photography, digital art, and filmmaking, going on long walks, and procrastinating homework. You can find her book online youtube process here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlGumaLYoQk&feature=share

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Heather Walton” position=”Graduated 2015″ image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/heatherwalton.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Heather Walton graduated from Monticello High School in 2015, and is a Charter Member of the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center (2013 – 2015). Writing is her passion, leading her to attend the University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop for poetry (2011) and found the online version of the Monticello High School newspaper, The Hoofprint, (2012-2015) as well as serving as an editor for Scriptum, the Monticello High School litmag (2013-2104). In her junior year she won the Monticello High School’s Excellence in Creative Writing Award (2014). In her senior year she won the nomination for the Piedmont Council of the Arts Rising Star Award for creative writing, and won honorable mention for her senior writing portfolio in the Scholastic Art and Writing contest. She current attends George Mason University’s and writes for their newspaper The Rival (2015-Present).

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Megan Pritchard graduated from St. Anne’s Belfield High School in 2014, and is a Charter Member of the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center (2013 – 2014). Writing is her passion, and Meg contributed to the founding and inception of many first projects for the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center.  In her senior year she won the nomination for the Piedmont Council of the Arts Rising Star Award for creative writing, and won honorable mention for her senior writing portfolio in the Scholastic Art and Writing contest, and three of her poems won gold key awards. She enjoys backpacking and involved herself heavily in the FOOT (Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips) while she attended Yale University.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Phia Davis” position=”PVCC high school/college student” image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/twc-turtle.jpg” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Phia Davis is a high school aged college student pursuing her associates full time in
Liberal Arts at PVCC. She wrote with the Monticello High School newspaper,
The Hoofprint. Currently, she is finding a home within theater arts at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Phia was an invaluable member of the editorial staff for the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center. Phia  enjoyed working on the Crossroads
VI anthology, and took charge of organizing the weekly teen writing meetings. She has loved creative writing since she can remember and enjoys stretching that into the theater arts.

[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_team_member name=”Artina Li” position=”Editor at Large” image_url=”https://twc.tupelopressva.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/artinali.jpg” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]

Artina Li is a junior at Albemarle High School. She loves to writing
poetry and prose, listening to music, and watching anime. From working with
the crossroads anthology in 2017/2018 she learned to appreciate more writing styles, and new perspectives to view works for publishing. Lost in thought and a blurry
future beyond, she is learning to tone down her cynicism and stay more positive.

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Megan Pritchard graduated from St. Anne’s Belfield High School in 2014, and is a Charter Member of the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center (2013 – 2014). Writing is her passion, and Meg contributed to the founding and inception of many first projects for the Tupelo Press Teen Writing Center.  In her senior year she won the nomination for the Piedmont Council of the Arts Rising Star Award for creative writing, and won honorable mention for her senior writing portfolio in the Scholastic Art and Writing contest, and three of her poems won gold key awards. She enjoys backpacking and involved herself heavily in the FOOT (Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips) while she attended Yale University.

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