Equinox Staff
Our Staff
Nickole Brown is the Faculty Advisor of Equinox.
Our Editor
Justin Edge is the Editor of Equinox and a writer of fiction and poetry. Some of his interests include collecting old saw blades and requesting Tom Waits of church organists at the funerals of strangers. He’s especially fond of sad jazz songs, subversive humor, and garlic-stuffed olives.
Our Art Editor
Alex Leme is the Art Editor of Equinox. He is a Donaghey Scholar and a student of the history of art at UALR. As a contemporary fine art and documentary photographer, his work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Brazil, France, England, China and Malaysia. Alex’s photographs can be found in numerous prestigious collections including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in France, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Aside from his profound love of art, he is a passionate world traveler who has visited over 30 different countries thus far. Alex speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Our Managing Editors
Suzanne “Suzi” Garcia is a 2011 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she was a Donaghey Scholar, a McNair Scholar, a Cooper Fellow, and the winner of the 2011 Whitbeck Award. Her editorial experience includes The View from Here and Equinox. She has both participated in and presented at national writing conferences, including the 2011 Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Society Conference and the inaugural Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers.
Robert Bruno is a 2011 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. An alumnus of the Cooper Honors and Donaghey Scholars Programs, he has held editorial positions on both The View from Here and Equinox. In 2011, he was one of only two UALR students selected for a scholarship to the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers. He has presented his writing across the country at conferences such as the Great Plains Honors Council Conference and the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Society Conference.
Our Core Staff & Literary Committee
Katherine Diggs is a senior majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing at UALR. She is a Cooper Honors student and a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Sigma Lambda, and Phi Kappa Phi . She is principally interested in children’s literature, short stories and various forms of poetry, especially blues and jazz. Her current academic interests include African-American Literature. After completing studies at UALR she hopes to continue on to earn a MFA in Creative Writing.
During Grades 2-5, Philip Sherrod read 83 Hardy Boys novels. He has since read other books, but still he longs to discover a work whose soaring language and unflinching honesty can match that of The Secret of Wildcat Swamp. When he isn’t digging through the slush pile in search of the next Franklin W. Dixon, he enjoys being photographed and sharing information about himself.
Mary Rainey, a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, received her BFA in Filmmaking with an emphasis on Editing. Wishing to further her education, she moved back to her hometown, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 2009 and began to follow her dream of being a writer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She recently spent a semester abroad in Rwanda teaching English and writing stories for her final project for the William G. Cooper, Jr. Honors Program. She expects to graduate in December.
John Stout has served on the Equinox editorial staff since 2009. His work has appeared in the past three issues. He graduated from UALR with a degree in English in 2011. He has been accepted into the MFA program for Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Emilie Vest is a fourth-year student at UALR. She is majoring in both philosophy and English, and ideally hopes one day to find a position in the legal department of a publishing firm. Her love of books was born early into a warm childhood filled with Roald Dahl and has been helped through its adolescence by kind teachers of high education. Emilie spends her free time hiding her shoes from adopted dogs and cooking for friends.
Zechariah McGhee is a Senior at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock seeking a Studio Art major with an emphasis in Photography.
Should you be interested in joining us either as an intern or volunteer, we’d love to have you. Please email the Faculty Advisor, Professor Nickole Brown (lnbrown@ualr.edu), for more information.