Editor

Kiara Koenig, kkoenig@yccd.edu

Kiara Koenig teaches composition, creative writing and literature, and serves as the co-coordinator of Yuba College’s Writing Language Development Center, where she trains peer tutors. She also serves as the editorial advisor for the literary journal, Flumes. Koenig’s participation in the California Acceleration Project and the Basic Skills Initiative Leadership Institute resulted in the collaborative development of an accelerated composition course and a cross-disciplinary faculty inquiry group. She has also presented at the California Statewide Reading Apprenticeship Conference and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. She believes the best writing, regardless of genre, occurs when skillful control meets fierce abandon.

Associate Editor

Katie Oesau, koesau@yccd.edu

Katie Oesau is currently an adjunct English instructor at Yuba College. She has experience teaching composition, critical thinking and literature from several community colleges in California. As a proud freeway flyer, she has served on composition committees, worked with students in writing centers, and volunteered on scholarship selection committees and as a peer mentor. As a Graduate student in English at Chico State, she served on the English Graduate Student Council, where she was the head editor for the annual publication Erudite. She has presented work at the National Network for Educational Renewal conference, as well as the Young Rhetoricians Conference (4 years in a row). She is excited to be a part of inside english!

Poetry Editor

Chella Courington, chellacourington@gmail.com

Chella Courington is a writer and teacher. With a Ph.D. in Literature and an MFA in Poetry, she is the author of four poetry chapbooks and three flash fiction chapbooks. Her poetry and stories appear in numerous anthologies and journals including SmokeLong Quarterly, Nano Fiction, The Los Angeles Review, and The Collagist. Her recent novella, The Somewhat Sad Tale of the Pitcher and the Crow, is available at Amazon. Reared in the Appalachian South, she now lives in Santa Barbara, CA.