Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 20, No. 3 (2023)
About the Authors
Lizzie Hutton is an assistant professor of English at Miami University, Ohio, where she also directs the Howe Writing Center. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including College English, The Writing Center Journal, and JEngl. She is also the author of one book of poems, She’d Waited Millennia, with poetry published in journals including the Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Sycamore Review (as winner of the Wabash prize) and Florida Review (as winner of the Humboldt prize).
Alison O’Keefe recently obtained her Bachelor’s degree in English from Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. During her degree program, she worked in the Augusta University Center for Writing Excellence as an undergraduate peer consultant. Her work in the center led her to focus on writing center studies for her Honors thesis project. This project was a mixed-methods survey study examining STEMM students’ usage and perceptions of the writing center. The current manuscript was developed using data from her study. Eventually, O’Keefe plans to return to Augusta University to pursue a master’s degree.
Candis Bond is the director of the Center for Writing Excellence at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia, where she is also an associate professor of English. Her research focuses on writing center administration, scientific and technical communication, and WAC/WID. Past writing center research by Bond has appeared in journals such as The Peer Review, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, The Writing Center Journal, and Southern Discourse in the Center.
Matthew Grendell, BS is the former Co-Manager of the Family, Home, and Social Science Writing Lab at Brigham Young University where he recently received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He is currently a research assistant at the Western Institute for Veterans Research. Matthew plans to continue his education and earn a PhD in Clinical Psychology. In his research, Matthew focuses on stress and coping as well as their effects on well-being and health working with Dr. Patrick Steffen and Dr. Blake Jones. In his free time, Matthew also enjoys all forms of storytelling and writing novels.
Brynn Pyper, BS has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University with minors in Music and Family Life. In addition to performing research at the FHSS Writing Lab under Dr. Joyce Adams, she also worked in the Positive Psychology Lab at BYU under Dr. Jared Warren, with Project MEDIA and Dr. Sarah Coyne in the SFL Department at BYU, and with Dr. Blake Jones in his research regarding stress and well-being. She will be attending Pacific University pursuing a master’s degree in Applied Psychological Sciences in Fall 2023. When she’s not doing research, advising students, or doing homework, Brynn writes and reads fiction and fantasy, experiments with new recipes in her Instant Pot, and prefers to spend as much time outdoors as she can.
Julia Elmer, BS has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brigham Young University. Julia is a former advisor at the FHSS Writing Lab where she helped perform research under Dr. Joyce Adams. In addition to working with Dr. Adams, Julia performed research in stress and biofeedback with Dr. Patrick Steffen and group therapy with Dr. Gary Burlingame. Julia is hoping to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology. In her free time, Julia likes being outdoors, spending time with her loved ones, and creating art.
Brooke Overly is a Senior at Brigham Young University from Orange County, California. She loves people and having adventures with her friends and family. Brooke is studying psychology and statistics and enjoys working as a writing tutor. Her goal is to become a school psychologist, so she can help children receive the resources and support they need to overcome the odds and succeed.
Marinne Hammond, BS is a psychology graduate and former writing tutor at the BYU FHSS Writing Lab. Marinne has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Jared Warren’s positive psychology lab since 2021. She currently works as a behavioral health technician at the OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center in South Jordan, UT. She plans to receive a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Marinne is a professionally trained violinist and works part-time as a private violin teacher and freelance performer. Some of her hobbies include hiking, fashion, and road trips.
Katie Garahan directs the Writing Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing from Virginia Tech and has been a writing center administrator for six years.
Justine Jackson Stone is a faculty member in the English Department at Radford University. She served as the assistant director of Radford’s Writing Center for three years and currently trains graduate teaching assistants to tutor writing and teach first-year composition.
Brynn Miller has a Master of Science in English Literature from Radford University, where she was also certified to teach Language Arts in the digital age. She began tutoring her peers in various writing subjects early in her education, which led to her work within the Radford University Writing Center.