President
Vice President
(C)2019 Matthew Yoder
Ian Lindsay is a current Ph.D. candidate at Georgia State and holds an MFA from the University of Central Florida. He is a fiction finalist for Solstice’s annual literary contest and The Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Writers’ Festival Contest. Originally from St. Pete, Florida, Ian was a full-time Title 1 public school teacher and continues his work in classrooms in downtown Atlanta. He lives in East Atlanta and enjoys NPR and Vietnamese cuisine. As a first-generation Filipino American, he strives to find intersectionality and celebrate culture in writing. Ian also enjoys writing the dark and the strange. He is an assistant editor for Five Points, and his work can be read in The Raleigh Review, Pembroke, Variant Literature, Miracle Monocle, Pinyon, and more.
Events Coordinator
Marian Russell is a recent Georgia State graduate with an MA in Rhetoric and Composition and is continuing her studies in the PhD. She assists the FYWP team as a Peer Mentor. Her research interests include accessibility in pedagogical practice, archival studies, and the rhetorics of women led organizations.
Treasurer
Victoria Pitter is a graduate student at Georgia State University currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Georgia State. Her works of fiction primarily focus on psychological states and their often-visceral physical manifestations.
Communications
Megan Hall is a poet, educator, and second-year Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at GSU, where she serves as Assistant Director of the FYWP. With over a decade of experience cultivating learning communities in both secondary and higher education, her pedagogical research focuses on antiracist and inclusive practices in writing instruction, emphasizing safe, culturally affirming spaces for self-expression. She also contributes as a graduate researcher with GSU’s National Institute for Student Success. Drawing on personal and regional histories rooted in the South, her creative work engages themes of ecofeminism, bodily autonomy, and the intersections of poverty, gender, and power. Her poetry has appeared in Yalobusha Review, Inkwell Journal, and Beyond Words Magazine, among others, and she is currently completing a book-length collection that examines the systemic inequalities shaping and endangering women and girls.
Secretary
Laura Vazquez holds an MA in Literary Studies from Georgia State and is a current Ph.D. candidate continuing her research in 19th-century American Literature. Her work mainly focuses on the Gothic and uncanny but has also included Borderlands/Chicano literature of the 20th century. As a first-generation Mexican American, her goal is to celebrate culture in literature and writing through intersectionality. She is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the English department and research assistant for the Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD).