Audrey Agot

Year: Junior
Major: English
Hometown:Vallejo, CA

Madeline Bell

Year: Junior
Major: Health Science
Minor: Spanish
Hometown: Ventura, CA
Favorite Books: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson & House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Favorite Movies: The Shining, Titanic, Moulin Rouge, & The Nightmare Before Christmas
Favorite Revision Tool: Making charts and lists to organize ideas
Favorite quotation: "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." -Carl Sagan

Steven Colson

Year: Sophomore
Major: English, Preparation for High School Teaching
Minor: Communication
Hometown: Folsom, CA
Favorite Books: One Who Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Daytripper by Gabriel Bá & Fábio Moon, & A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Favorite Movies: Blade Runner, Coraline, Moonrise Kingdom, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK, Brazil, Spirited Away, Metropolis, & The Fifth Element
Favorite Revision Tools: Spell check, sticky notes, highlighters, pens
Favorite quotation: “I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” – Haruki Murakami

CJ Cosas

Year: Junior
Major: English
Minor: Sociology
Hometown: Concord, CA
Favorite Books: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Ishmael by Yakuza Moon
Favorite Movies: Hitch, Hercules, & Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Favorite Revision Tools: Ctrl+F (Find) & ctrl+Z (Undo)
Favorite quotation: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." - Orson Welles

Jaq Davis

Year: Junior
Major: English
Minor: Psychology
Hometown: Sonora, CA
Favorite Books: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
Favorite Movies: 500 Days of Summer, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, & Up
Favorite Revision Tools: Writing Research Papers Across the Curriculum by Susan Hubbach, & The Elements of Style, by William Strunk & E.B. White
Favorite quotation: “Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Holland Enke

Year: Junior
Major: English
Minor: Art History
Hometown: Fullerton, CA
Favorite Books: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte & Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Favorite Play:Angels in America (play) by Tony Kushner
Favorite Movies: The Bird Cage, Pride & Prejudice & Young Victoria
Favorite Revision Tool: Questions (An open dialogue between an adviser and a student always leads to easy grammar fixes and great discussions about ideas!)
Favorite quotations: "I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it” – Unknown
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

David Fujii

Year: Junior
Major: English
Hometown: San Jose, CA

Josie Gallup

Year: 2nd Year Masters of Fine Arts—Creative Writing
Focus: Poetry

Bridget Hanna

Year: Senior
Major: English, Dramatic and Film Arts
Hometown: Mariposa, CA
Favorite Book (Poetry): erotic poems by e.e. Cummings
Favorite Movie: V for Vendetta
Favorite Revision Tool: Freewriting
Favorite Quotation: "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." – Kurt Vonnegut

Jen Herrington—Administrative Assistant

Hometown: Troy, NY & Plainfield, VT
Favorite Books: The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murry Bookchin & The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone
Favorite Movie: Fargo
Favorite Revision Tool: Pruning the redundant.
Favorite Quotation: "There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up." -Bernice Johnson Reagon
In Her Own Words: Do what you can, and don't get upset.

Somel Jammu

Year: Senior
Major: Integral
Minor Creative Writing
Hometown: Santa Clara (born) & Cupertino (current)
Favorite Book (fiction): Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Favorite Book (poetry): Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Favorite Movie: Amar, Akbar, Anthony
Favorite Revision Tool: Marking and writing any quotations that stick out to me. This helps me see the overall theme and what strikes me the most in each text.
Favorite Quotation: "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -Ray Bradbury
"It was something she had felt and decided she would keep, regardless of whether he ever knew or not. it was a feeling capturing a real moment, but it was a feeling she would keep just for herself. Whatever that feeling was and however it felt, she knew it. I wished I could be as certain sometimes but then sometimes I wondered if certainty even existed." -From "Baby Brown"

Tereza Joy Kramer—Director

Poetry, Rhetoric, Composition, TESOL, Journalism, Spanish
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Favorite Book (nonfiction): Ethics for the New Millenium by Dalai Lama
Favorite Poet: Sharon Olds
Favorite Movie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Favorite Revision Tool: Discussion
Favorite Quotation: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us ... . And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automaticallly liberates others." -Marianne Williamson
In Her Own Words: I've never thought of myself as a good writer -- I just enjoy trying.

Reyna Olegario

Year: Senior
Major: English, Preparation for High School Teaching
Minor: Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic Tradition
Hometown: Hercules, CA
Favorite Books (fiction): Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, & Looking for Alaska by John Green
Favorite Plays: Saved by Edward Bond
& Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Favorite Movies: The Lion King, Maria Full of Grace, & Inception
Favorite Revision Tools: Ctrl + F (find) & Color coding ideas
Favorite Quotation: “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” –John Green, from "Quotations (And Holden Hats)" [Vlog]
In Her Own Words: Sometimes I talk in circles, sometimes I use large hand gestures, and sometimes I use cat examples.

Kevin Reyes—Writing Specialist

Hometown: Antioch, CA (on paper); Brooklyn, NY (in my heart)
Favorite Books: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, How to Be Good by N. Hornby, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Timbuktu by P. Auster, & The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Favorite Play: Ghosts by H. Ibsen

Sam Ricci

Year Senior
Majors English & Theater
Hometown: Vacaville, CA
Favorite Book (fiction):Different Seasons by Stephen King
Favorite Book (poetry): Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Favorite Movie: Young Frankenstein
Favorite Revision Tool: Reading out loud, a ballpoint pen, and a piece of scrap paper.
Favorite Quotation: "Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value." -Albert Einstein
In Her Own Words: Despite being super-busy all of the time, I'm generally a pretty happy person. I get animated when something excites or interests me. Don't be surprised if I use sound effects as adjectives.

Abby Smith

Year: Junior Major: Liberal & Civic Studies
Minor: Women and Gender Studies & Economics
Hometown: Stockton, CA
Favorite Books: The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, & To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Favorite Movies: The Harry Potter Series, Any Disney-Pixar movie, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, & Bridesmaids Favorite Revision Tools: Highlighting & Spellcheck
Favorite Quotation: “Life is not a struggle. It’s a wiggle.” –Fortune Cookie

Tori Stringer

Year: Junior
Major: English
Minor: Dance
Hometown: Napa, CA
Favorite Books (fiction): The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, the stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & anything by John Green
Favorite Movies: Music and Lyrics & The Proposal
Favorite Revision Tool: Reading out loud and using highlighters!
Favorite Quotation: “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." -John Green

Brittany Wason

Year: 2nd Year Masters of Fine Arts—Creative Writing
Focus: Poetry
Hometown: Rye, New Hampshire
Favorite Revision Tools: Post-outlining! I wish I knew this trick when I was an undergrad!
Favorite Quotation: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” –Jack London