Sophie Swengel

is a current senior at Kent State University earning her dual bachelors degree in history and English with a minor in creative writing. She is the managing editor of Luna Negra, Kent State’s longest independent arts magazine, and the public relations officer of Kent State’s English Honor Society chapter, Sigma Tau Delta Xi Mu. Her writing has earned her numerous university awards and scholarships, including first place in the Wick Poetry Center’s honors poetry competition and, for two years in a row, the Department of History’s Gold Pen award. Her creative work has been published in Crayfish, Brainchild, and Luna Negra, and her essays can be found in Luna Negra, the Kent Stater, and Kentcore. She maintains a semi-regular essay blog, Love Ain’t For Keeping and is currently writing her book-length honors history thesis, a historiographical, cultural, and narrative analysis of the Who’s rock opera, Tommy. She splits her time between Kent, Ohio and York, Pennsylvania.