Samiha Ahmad is majoring in Accounting and minoring in Interdisciplinary Studies at Macaulay Baruch College. She wrote "What's on Your Mind?" as a first-year student in fall 2025. She plans to pursue her CPA upon graduation.
Madeleine Barnes is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch College. Her dissertation-in-progress focuses on how women use textile work and digital media to survive violence in present-day America, and she has taught creative writing and research courses at New York University and Brooklyn College.
Kamal Belmihoub joined the English Department faculty at Baruch College as a Lecturer in August 2017 after completing a PhD in Second Language Studies/ESL at Purdue University. He is interested in writing studies and world Englishes. He has developed curricula for intensive English programs and has taught EAL (English as an Additional Language) as well as introductory and professional writing courses. In January 2018 he began serving as EAL Director at Baruch.
Lisa Blankenship is Associate Professor of English, and former Director of First-Year Writing, at Baruch College. She teaches first-year writing courses with themes focused on rhetoric, language, race, whiteness, gender, identity, and digital media. Her work has appeared in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society and Computers and Composition. Her book about empathy as a rhetorical concept, Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy, was published in fall 2019 by Utah State University Press, and in March 2019 her co-edited collection The Rhetoric of Participation, about participation as an assessed component of college writing classes, was published by the Computers and Composition Digital Press.
Lucas Corcoran holds a PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He teaches writing around the New York City area, and his research focuses on writing pedagogy and translingualism.
Kate Eickmeyer teaches first-year writing courses at Baruch and also served as a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch. She is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she is writing a dissertation on romanticism and aesthetic philosophy. She is also an attorney with a JD from Harvard, and she is interested in intersections between law, rhetoric, and student-centered pedagogy.
Seth Graves is Digital Pedagogy Manager at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Baruch and teaches writing courses at Baruch and The New School. He is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and assembling a dissertation on disability rhetorics in a digital age. He holds an MA in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MFA in poetry from The New School. His scholarship, news, reviews, interviews, and poetry have appeared variously.
Arin Kukharsky, a sophomore at Baruch College, is a finance major and member of the Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society.
Lucia Ku is a sophomore at Baruch College majoring in business administration. She plans to pursue an MBA upon graduation.
Melody Lew is a student at Baruch College majoring in operations management and minoring in New York City Studies. She hopes to pursue a career in management consulting and continue working with nonprofits.
Kim Liao is a writer and writing teacher at Baruch College, City Tech, and Gotham Writers' Workshop. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Salon, The Millions, River Teeth, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Fringe, and others. Her essay in Lit Hub about collecting 100 rejections a year went viral, starting the #100rejections challenge.
Daniel Libertz is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of First-Year Writing at Baruch. He teaches courses in first-year writing, data-driven public writing, and other courses related to writing and rhetoric. His research focuses on statistical rhetoric in public writing, digital and quantitative writing pedagogies, assessment and grading, and writing program administration. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Res Rhetorica, Adult Learning, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion, and The Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference.
Molly Mosher is an adjunct lecturer in the Baruch College English department. She loves helping students develop as writers and thinkers and supporting colleagues in their efforts to do the same. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and a master's from CUNY's City College.
Brooke Schreiber is Associate Professor and the Director of First-Year Writing in the English Department of Baruch College. She teaches courses in the globalization of English, language and social media, grammar for writers, and other topics in linguistics, as well as first-year writing. Her research focuses on second language writing pedagogy, translingualism, and global Englishes, particularly in English as a foreign language (EFL) settings. Her work has appeared in journals such as TESOL Quarterly, the Journal of Second Language Writing, the English Language Teaching Journal, and Composition Forum. She is co-editor of two books: Linguistic Justice on Campus: Pedagogy and Advocacy for Multilingual Writers (2022) and Writing on the Wall: Writing Education and Resistance to Isolationism (2023).
Meola Shaka, whose photographic work appears on the cover, is a rising sophomore at Baruch. Meola is a psychology major and a philosophy minor, hoping to pursue neuropsychology post-grad.
Radiya Sharif, a sophomore at Baruch College, is pursuing a major in psychology and a minor in English. In their free time, they enjoy writing work for many different genres, from poetry to short stories.
Jahongir Tohirov is a sophomore at Baruch College. Jaohngir wrote "From The Patriot to Twitter" as a first-year writing student.
Steven Vasquez is a sophomore at Baruch College who wrote "Empathy in Conflict" as part of his first-year writing coursework.