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.

Disclaimer: While Sophie is well versed in numerous webhosting softwares, such as Wordpress and Drupal, and attentive to current standards of web accessibility, this website is her way of having fun with scratch HTML and CSS in her own time and should not be percieved as evidence of a lack of acknowledgment of such. The internet deserves to be a fun place and this spot happens to be Sophie's part.