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Role: Graduate Students

Haley Weideman

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Haley Weideman is an MA student majoring in English. She graduated with highest honors from Mount Mercy University in 2020 with a major in English and minors in Diversity Studies and Creative Writing. She is currently teaching SP CM 212....

Jenna Weber

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Jenna Weber is in her first year at Iowa State University to pursue her MA in English. She graduated summa cum laude from Clarke University in Dubuque Iowa with her BA in English and Secondary Education and a minor in...

Emina Kovacevic

Graduate Assistant-Teaching [ENGL]

Emina Kovacevic is an MA student in the English program specializing in Literature. Emina is originally from Bosnia and grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. She attended Hoover High School and then attended Iowa State University for her undergraduate degree...

Meghan Jackson

Graduate Assistant-Teaching [ENGL]

Meghan Jackson is a first year master’s student in the English Literature program. After graduating from Iowa State in 2018 with her BA in English, she took the opportunity to travel, read, and write. Most recently she volunteered as a...

Damian Herrera

Graduate Assistant-Teaching [ENGL]

Damian Herrera has been a longtime resident of the Chicagoland area. He is a self proclaimed nerd who majored in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago with the hope to write comics and to see people like himself represented in...

Elizabeth Helmick

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Elizabeth Helmick is a Las Vegas transplant and University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumna. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies with an emphasis in Integrated Marketing Communications and a minor in English. Prior to studying...

Kelsey Zimmerman

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Kelsey Zimmerman is a poet and first-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing & Environment program at ISU. She originally hails from Ann Arbor, MI, and holds a degree in English Language & Literature from the University of Michigan....

Emma Roles

Graduate Assistant-Teaching [ENGL]

Emma Roles is a writer who explores themes of entrapment, gender, sexuality, and trauma through fiction, contemporary fairy tales, and non-fiction. She is particularly interested in the ways in which environment and place embody and reflect these themes. Roles has...

A’Ja Lyons

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

A'Ja Lyons was born and raised in Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, Texas. She graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Liberal Studies. A'Ja was a book reviewer and column contributor for Pennsylvania Diversity Network's...

Tara Labovich

Graduate Assistant-Teaching [ENGL]

Tara Labovich is an MFA student. Tara is interested in studying liminal spaces and exploring the boundaries between land and body. In particular, she writes about body in relation to healing from trauma, sexuality, and spirituality. Although in the past...

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