TOYON STAFF - VOLUME 68 - Spring 2022
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Print and Ebook Team
Alannah Guevara Sara "Sprad" Spradley Max Heirich Marketing, Publicity, and Distribution Team
Nicholas Nielsen Samuel Porteous Erick Meraz |
Audiobook and Spoken Word Team
Jo Gibson Kealin Morgan Kaitlynn Gerton Kiran Dunning |
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Alannah GuevaraPrint and Ebook TeamAlannah Guevara is on the Print and Ebook for the Spring 2022 semester at Cal Poly Humboldt. Previously, she worked as the Production Team Lead for the 68th volume of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Toyon Literary Magazine in the fall of 2021. In the interim period, between then and the current spring semester, she began working for HSU Press as a student assistant. She enjoys her work very much and aims to build a career in publishing. She’s even discovered a newfound passion for book design and typesetting. In 2021, she earned her Associate’s degree in English at Riverside City College where she graduated as the student of distinction in the field of creative writing. Alannah first found her passion in publishing while attending RCC when she worked as a student editor on volume 35 of MUSE Literary Journal. She is a winner of the 2022 Sana, Sana competition, and will have a spoken word poem published on Toyon’s website. A SoCal native and proud Chicana, Alannah has plans to flee the dry, dusty desert for the rich, welcoming soil of Humboldt county where she will earn her B.A. in English and a minor in literary publishing. More importantly, she is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her firstborn child.
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Erick MerazMarketing, Publicity, and Distribution Team
Erick Meraz is a senior, majoring in English Education after transferring from Santa Monica Community College with an Associates degree in Liberal Arts and Humanities. Having spent almost 4 years at the community college, he holds the privilege of having some of his poetic works published in SMC’s Writers Club Chapbook in 2019. For this year's Toyon, he has taken a spot in the Marketing team for Volume 68. This will be his first experience in the literary magazine world and is excited to help get the word of Toyon out.
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Jo GibsonAudiobook and Spoken Word Team
Jo Gibson is continuing their work on the Vol. 68 of Toyon as a member of the Audiobook and Spoken Word Team. They are recent transfer student to Cal Poly Humboldt from the SoCal area after getting an Associates Degree in English from a local community college. Jo’s hobbies include creating stories with friends and consuming all sorts of horror stories as well. Jo is excited to continue to help others publish their work.
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Kaitlynn GertonAudiobook and Spoken Word Team
Kaitlynn Gerton is a part of the Audiobook team for the 68th volume of the Toyon Literary Magazine. She is currently pursuing a Bachelors of English, focusing on writing at Cal Poly Humboldt, and planning on starting a Masters program this fall, focusing on creative writing. She was an editor and website manager for The Parlay Literary Magazine in 2020, the same year she completed an Associates Degree in English. Kaitlynn writes in her free time, focusing on YA Fiction, Fantasy, and Lyrical Poetry.
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Kealin MorganAudiobook and Spoken Word Team
Kealin Morgan is currently in her third year working towards a B.A. in English - Writing Practices and a minor in Literary Publishing and Communications. She has been published in the Miracle Mile Mirror: the Official Newsletter of the Miracle Mile Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. Kealin is a Central Oregon native, though upon graduation she plans to stay in Humboldt county to earn her M.A. while working and writing and then hopes to travel and teach in other countries. In the future, Kealin would like to self-publish her own works and continue to work in the field of publishing. She has a passion for writing short stories, spokenword and reading literature.
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Kiran DunningAudiobook and Spoken Word Team
Kiran Dunning is a third year student at Cal Poly Humboldt currently working on the Audiobook and Spoken Word team of the 68th edition Toyon Literary Magazine. She is a Zoology major and English Writing minor. She enjoys personal writing as well as formal writing, and when she isn’t working part-time she’s playing video games or hanging out with her roommates.
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Max HeirichPrint and Ebook Team
Max is a senior at Cal Poly Humboldt entering his last semester. Having majored in English: Writing Practices, Max plans on going into the publishing field post graduation as an editor or interior designer for books, while working on his writing career on the side. For this semester, Max will be working on the E-book design for Toyon 68.
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Nick NielsenMarketing, Publicity, and Distribution Team
Hey everyone, my name is Nick Nielsen and I’ll be serving on the Marketing, Publicity, and Distribution Team for Vol. 68 of Toyon. I previously served as Co-editor of Poetry and was privileged enough to sort through the collective brilliance of all those who submitted works. I’m originally from New York and am now in my junior year at Humboldt, although it is actually my first semester in person! Time has certainly been behaving strangely these past few years as we all know. I love all things art, from writing and drawing to music and dance. I find human creative expression to be one of our greatest attributes and feel deeply blessed to be connecting with so many brilliant thinkers in our community. I hope I get to meet more in my remaining time here and am looking forward to continuing Toyon's legacy. I’ll see you guys out there!
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Samuel PorteousMarketing, Publicity, and Distribution Team
Samuel Porteous is a part of the marketing team for Volume 68 of Toyon Literary Magazine. He is a senior attending Cal Poly Humboldt, with the hopes of graduating with a BA in English Writing and a minor in Religious Studies. This will be Samuel’s first experience working with a group to create a literary magazine. He is excited to get the word out about Toyon in the months ahead, and is extremely proud of all the people who have submitted their pieces to the magazine.
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Sara "Sprad" SpradleyPrint and Ebook Team
Sara “Sprad” Spradley is a current member of Toyon Literary Magazine’s Print and Ebook Team after previously serving as the Editorial Team Lead: Authenticity Editor and Division Editor of Literary Criticism for Issue 68. She is currently going on her last semester as an English major with a Psychology minor at Cal Poly Humboldt Although they are unsure of what they want to do after graduation, with their past experience as the Mentor for the Cal Poly Humboldt English department as well as Writing Consultant at for the Cal Poly Humboldt Writing Studio she wants to focus on helping others with their writing and using it as a form of expression. Going forward, she is excited to collaborate with her peers to create something that different groups of people are all able to emotionally connect with.
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TOYON STAFF - VOLUME 68 - Fall 2021
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LEADERSHIP TEAM
Managing Editor Ernie Iñiguez Assistant Managing Editor Sarah Mouchet Community Liaison Noemi Maldonado Public Relations Sloan Volenec PRODUCTION TEAM Production Team Lead Alannah Guevara Visual Art Editors and Cover Designers Maria Lopez and Taryn Roberts Typesetter & Book Designer Maddy Eubanks SPOKEN WORD & WEB TEAM Team Leads & Social Media Managers David Cruz and Kae Dennert Archive Editor Brittany Fuher |
EDITORIAL TEAM
Editorial Team Lead, Acquisitions Editor Kealin Morgan Editorial Team Lead, Authenticity Editor Sara "Sprad" Spradley Division Editor, Multilingual Writing and Translation Raul Mendoza Division Editors, Fiction and Playwriting Kaitlynn Gerton and Lizzy Spears Division Editor, Creative Nonfiction Jo Gibson Division Editors, Poetry Nick Nielsen and Ricardo Lara Nava Division Editor, Criticism Sara "Sprad" Spradley Division Editor, Environmental Justice Award Ethan Atil |
