Editorial Staff

Lauren Crane, Editor-in-Chief

Lauren is a senior majoring in literature. Although she was an avid reader as a child, Lauren developed her love for British literature after reading Jane Austen in high school. Her literary kindred spirit is Marianne Dashwood, as evidenced by her love for Romantic poetry and melancholy walks in the rain, and it is likely these sensibilities that led her to the literature major. After graduation, Lauren hopes to share her love for literature by teaching.

Anna Fox, Content Editor

When Anna was small, she would hide in corners so that she could read instead of doing her homework. She has always loved stories, both reading them and writing them. At PHC, she is a literature major, which is nice, because now she can hide in corners reading and it is her homework. She is a senior, and hopes to someday help other children find the same love for storytelling that she has.

Kaitlyn Tully, Content Editor

Kaitlyn Tully is a junior Literature and APP major at PHC. Her childhood in Florida consisted primarily of exploring different mediums of storytelling including poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. She has always found great joy in reading classic literature and in writing her own stories. Admittedly, her very first character “JEmma” did not last very long (her attempt at spelling Jenna was thwarted by the limited letter stickers in her possession). This traumatic instance likely influenced her now severe disdain at naming characters.

Abbie Mourey, Content Editor

Abbie Mourey was born and raised in New York’s Southern Tier region. When she’s not reading, you can find Abbie listening (and badly dancing) to an assortment of jazz, classical, pop, country, and spontaneous worship music. Abbie came to love reading as a child, and she fell in love with classic when she was thirteen after reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time. Abbie appreciates rich coffee, deep conversations with good people, and British TV shows. Abbie is a sophomore literature major, and she is most looking forward to the Lit Crit and Brit Lit courses.

Elyse Burgess, Layout Editor

Elyse Burgess is a senior Classical Liberal Arts major with a Journalism minor who is so used to getting mistaken for a Literature major that she joined the Westmarch team to confuse people even more. She loves bringing the beauty and order of graphic design to the beautiful words printed in Westmarch. Her other hobbies include staring at a blank Microsoft Word document while trying to think of something to write, eating baked goods, and telling people to look at the moon.