Conditions Volume I is Here!

Caleb Alamo is a senior English Pre-Law major at Ohio University. He is a first generation student and will be attending CSU|Law after graduation. While not a creative writer, Caleb enjoys writing the occasional poem inspired by the stories that help shape him and his everyday experiences.

Joseph Chamberlain Brown, better known by his friends as Jobi, is a junior at Brigham Young University - Hawaii. He is currently studying Political Science with an emphasis in Emergency Management, and has a special interest in counterterrorism, emergency medicine, and Middle Eastern affairs. He is the firstborn child of an art school dropout and a cattle farmer's daughter, and his youth was spent roaming the wilderness of the Ozarks at the heart of the North American continent. Jobi's ambitions as an author include investigative journalism, memoirs, short stories, and poetry, and he is known to dabble in photography from time to time.

Manhattan Ethington is a junior from Ohio studying English at BYU-Hawaii. She lives in a world of words, writing and editing academic writing, news writing, business writing, and creative writing on a daily basis. Manhattan hopes to someday become a librarian so she can pass on her love of reading to the next generation.

Mya Frame is a first year student studying English Literature and Sociology at Ohio University. They love to read, write, and act for various clubs across campus. She hopes to one day own a house, but that might be a far off dream.

Austin Lawrence is from Cincinnati, OH, and studies Integrated English Education at OU. When Austin isn’t reading a new novel or pondering poetry, he’s writing and performing music, creating some sort of craft, or hanging out with his cat Joey.

Bailey Lint is an undergraduate student at Ohio University studying English Creative Writing and Psychology. Works by authors such as Sarah J. Maas and J.R.R. Tolkien inspire her. She plans to pursue a career in editing and publishing and has works published in Conditions.

Maya is a senior at Ohio University, majoring in Journalism News and Information. She is a news editor for The Post and has been working there for the past three years. In her free time, she enjoys playing soccer, bothering her roommates and calling her mom or girlfriend after every minor inconvenience.

Camryn Stallworth is a graphic designer taught through painting and illustration, she grew to use a handful of those elements like hand drawings and texture in my designs along with powerful and dramatic bits of text to emphasize a point. She has always taken notice of designs that follow you through everyday life from billboards to magazine covers and the use of text along with imagery. There is something powerful in hand drawn or personally crafted aspects in a design heavy world that makes a piece feel that much more comforting and relatable regardless if the subject matter is heavy and uneasy. Comfort goes a long way in design that we are meant to explain graphically for vast audiences.

Abby Sundeen is a writer and a linguist from Buffalo, New York. She didn't anticipate that writing would become such a huge part of her life when she wrote a silly story about squirrels in the third grade, at least not until her English teachers encouraged her budding passion. Fiction helped her through the stresses of middle and high school, and then college, and now is a core part of her life. She writes to escape, to create, and to imagine.

Rin Swann is a graduate of the University of Iowa with degrees in English and Creative Writing and Journalism and Mass Communication. Her journalistic work has won best news story in the state of Iowa and her fictional work has been presented at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention twice. When she is not writing, she enjoys listening to podcasts and convincing her cat that her laptop is not a bed.

Amy is a senior at Ohio University, studying journalism. She is part of several organizations on campus including Thread Magazine, All-Campus Radio Network, Asian American Pacific Islander Student Union, and HerCampus. After she graduates, she hopes to have a career in the music or media industry doing PR or digital marketing. When she is not writing, she is shopping, going to concerts and hanging out with her friends and boyfriend.