Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Jacob Campbellis a second-year MALS student.Born and raised in New York City, he developed an unshakable attraction to spectacle, a predisposition that has led him to pursue screenwriting via the MALS program. He is currently combining his passion for storytelling, history, and geopolitics into a dramatic thesis project regarding espionage in late Cold War Berlin. He has previously been published in the New York Times.
Editorial Board Members
Abigail Dollries is a MALS graduate student in the Cultural Studies concentration. She is proud to serve on the editorial board for this issue. Aside from her involvement with Clamantis, she has been published in several publications such as The Varsity where she was a masthead and lead video producer. Her academic work delves into women's history, material culture, and the history of medicine. Her favorite creative outlets include writing, dance, video production, and photography. Her work at the Student Wellness Center at Dartmouth connects students to health and mindfulness resources to support their wellbeing..
Caden P. Ide is a writer of Science Fiction and a student in the MALS Program at Dartmouth College, with a concentration in Creative Writing. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Florida Gulf Coast University. He is currently in charge of the Dartmouth Writers Society and a Board Member at Clamantis.
Mackintosh Bennett is a writer, playwright and illustrator currently based in Stowe, Vermont. He writes for the stage, screen, as well as works of prose, in both long and short form. He has spent time writing in Boston, Provincetown and on Martha’s Vineyard, chasing the coattails of other tortured artists he admires: Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill and Kurt Vonnegut to name a few. Mack has also acted professionally on stage and on commercial television, and is classically trained in the techniques of Meisner, Adler, and the Avner Eisenberg school of clowning. He is currently studying creative writing as a graduate student at Dartmouth College and earned credits towards his degree at the University of Oxford. Mack works with many talented writers as an editor and serves as a judge for the annual Robert Traver Fly-fishing Writing Award, awarded jointly by the John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing. When he is not busy writing or doodling in the margins, you can find him skiing like a madman, climbing at high-altitude or floating around in his Old Town canoe.
Faculty Advisor
Anna Minardi has been working at Dartmouth since 2001. A senior lecturer in the French and Italian department, she served as language course coordinator while teaching Italian at all levels. She holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine and completed her MALS degree in 2010 with a thesis in Creative Writing. In 2014 she was invited to join the MALS program to teach a course on methodology as it pertains to the writing process and joined the Clamantis team. In Winter 2020 she started co-teaching a course entitled “Writing Nature: Reflections from Within and Without,” which gave her an opportunity to explore with students one of her lifelong interests, the intersection of the sciences and humanities.
Associate Editors
Matt Fennelly (they/he) is a performance artist. Matt’s alma maters include Skidmore (BA economics-mathematics), AMDA-LA (acting), NYU Tisch (MA performance studies), and University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (MFA dance). Based in Hawai’i, Matt is the founder of Cosmic Dance Maui. At Dartmouth, Matt is working on their MALS creative writing thesis, focussing on historical fiction and adaptation..
Andrew Moore is a first year MALS student.
Chelsee Niebergall is a current MALS student with a concentration in creative writing. She enjoys writing, reading, thinking about writing, and thinking about reading. Chelsee completed her undergraduate degree at Utah State University where she studied journalism and political science. She is interested in telling women’s stories whether that be through epic fantasy tales or romantic comedies..
Joel Papp is a second-year graduate student at Dartmouth College, where he is also a teaching assistant for the first-year writing seminar. He earned his BA from Baylor University studying Film and English. At Baylor, Joel combined his love for writing and comedy and became the Editor-in-Chief of The Rope—the university’s underground, student satirical newspaper. Apart from that, he has satirical works published in The Boston Accent, a Boston-based, online satire publication. His academic passions lie in storytelling across different mediums.
Mieke Vanderveen is a human-shaped thing who tries her best.
Assistant Editors
Crista Fiala is currently a Comparative Literature MA student at Dartmouth. Her critical and creative work is invested in the (re)construction of American nation-building narratives through the overlapping lenses of space, environment, comparative racialization, and intersecting gender and sexual identities. She is excited to be an editor for this issue!
Yi Hu is a first year student at MALS. Prior to his arrival at Dartmouth, he studied at NYU as a student in Art History. His concentrations for MALS are Arts and Journalism. He intends to focus on writing that would establish a foundation for him to work in art journals in the future. His interests during spare time are doing sports and visiting different museums.
Arina Petrova is a third-year MALS student in creative writing. She lives in the Upper Valley with a betta fish and four children. Once, she wrote and illustrated a book for her kids and decided to move forward in her writing experiments.
Elysee Sadia is a graduate student in the MALS program at Dartmouth, with a background in journalism and philosophy -- a combination that makes them equally skilled at asking tough questions and overthinking the answers. They enjoy writing, reading, traveling, and chasing the perfect cup of coffee, which they insist exists somewhere in the world. Elysee aspires to pursue a career in law, where their knack for storytelling and love of logic will (hopefully) make them a force to be reckoned with -- or at least a delightfully caffeinated litigator.
Alumni Editors
Alhanouf Almaghrabi is a Dartmouth alumnus and an editor at Clamantis. She is a novelist who published three philosophical novels. Her thesis is also a philosophical novel. She is a poet and a playwright. She is a certified translator in both Arabic and English.
Rachel Bates lives in Brooklyn, NY where she works as an academic director and educator at a public charter school. She is also a writer who studies Appalachian literature against cultural, regional, and ecocritical frameworks and writes about these topics in her own creative work. She holds a PhD in English from Old Dominion University. Her poetry has appeared in Appalachian Review, Broad River Review, Headstuff, among other publications.
Justine Crowling, Guarini '18, is editor-in-chief of Tuck Today magazine and director of content strategy and marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. During her time at Guarini, she studied creative writing and served as editor of Clamantis. Her personal writing, including a three-part novella, explores addiction, family, and sense of place. She lives in the Portland, ME area with her husband, toddler, and three dogs.
Maria Iriondo completed her MALS degree in 2023 with a concentration in creative writing. She received the MALS Byam Shaw-Brownstone Thesis Award for Farewell to Franco, a short story collection set at the end of a poignant chapter in Spain's modern history. She’s the managing editor of a bilingual, yachting and lifestyle publication and a podcast and television producer. Currently, María is working on a short story collection set in Portugal around the time of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
Teresa Lust is the author of A Blissful Feast, Culinary Adventures in Italy’s Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche, published by Pegasus Books. Her previous book, Pass the Polenta: and Other Writings from the Kitchen, was published by Steerforth Press. She holds a master's degree from Dartmouth College and currently teaches Italian for the Rassias Center for World Languages at Dartmouth.
Behishta Sadaat is a second year MALS student with a Cultural Studies/Medical Humanities concentration. She is from Kabul, Afghanistan, with a public health and policy making background. She has been a human rights and women's activist. She was recognized as the "Best Performer in Women's Rights" by Asia awards in 2020-2021. Currently, she works at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Jasmine Shirey [Assoc.] is a PhD student in Duke University's Literature Program and an alum of the MALS program. Their research lies at the intersections of American studies, queer theory, and memory studies.
Ed Ting is a well-known amateur astronomer whose works have appeared in Sky&Telescope, Skywatch, Discover, and Popular Mechanics magazines. He is a National Science Foundation Ambassador to Chile, and a NASA Solar System Ambassador. His science-themed YouTube channel gets two million views a year. In addition to his science writing, Ed’s creative works have appeared in literary journals. He is a past winner of the NH State Flash Fiction contest and was selected as Writer-in-Residence at the Noepe Center for the Fine Arts in Edgartown, Massachusetts in 2016. Ed holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, an MFA from New England College, and a MALS degree from Dartmouth, where he produced an award-winning thesis on astronomical imaging.
Cover Art
Meg Maker D'87 MALS '11 is a writer, artist, naturalist, and educator. Her work has appeared in numerous literary and lifestyle publications, and she's a frequent lecturer on creative nonfiction writing. Her thesis manuscript, a memoir, won the 2011 MALS Thesis Excellence Award for Creative Writing.
Contributors
Alhanouf Almaghrabi See under ‘Alumni Editors.’
Mackintosh Bennett See under ‘Editorial Board Members.’
Jacob Campbell See under ‘Editor-in-Chief.’
LaDarius Dennison is the Social Media Producer for the Office of Communications at Dartmouth and a MALS student concentrating in Cultural Studies. Prior to Dartmouth, LaDarius interned at Disney World where he sprinkled pixie dust and made a lot of magic. His research interest is Black History and when he’s not studying, he loves to immerse himself in creative projects like animating logos and drawing illustrations.
Abigail Dollries See under ‘Editorial Board Members.’
Tim Fish is the pen name of MALS alumnus Timothy Poisson. Tim is a self-taught artist and completed his degree with a concentration in Creative Writing. He's just returned to the US after a year abroad as a Fulbright scholar. When he's not working or traveling, he's working some more. timfishworks.com
Greg Hill A 2011 graduate from the Dartmouth MALS Program, Greg Hill is an experimental poet and short story writer in West Hartford, Connecticut, and whose work has appeared in a number of print anthologies, including Book of Penteract (Penteract Press), What Dwells Between the Lines (Press 53), Dadakuku 1 (Dadakuku), Best of 2021 (Potato Soup Journal), and The Best of Wanderlust 2019 (Wild Dog Press), as well as in online literary magazines like Past Ten, Barzakh, and Streetcake Magazine. He holds a blackbelt in tsundoku.
Stephen Marchand Fernández Stephen Marchand Fernández was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. He studied Spanish Philology at UNED (Universidad de Educación a Distancia) and in 2013 moved to the United States, where he has been working as a Spanish and French teacher at Groton School, Massachusetts. In 2022, he published his first book of poems, “Hacerse cuerpo,” with Open Art. He is currently a MALS student at Dartmouth College.
Andrea Marion holds a B.A., in French Literature, SUNY Albany, 1979, with credits from the Middlebury Language Program. She also studied in Paris at the Institute des Etudes Americains and was employed in Cannes as a language assistant. She was a Vermont marketing manager until 2005 when she became a yoga and mindfulness teacher and studio owner. She is a MALS student, writing concentration, Dartmouth ’25.
Zuhura [Emma Mwanza] Zuhura is a MALS Creative Writing student from Kenya. Drawing inspiration from her lived experiences, she currently writes on political ideas fiction/non-fiction, and she cannot wait to pivot to less serious matters.
Chelsee Niebergall See under ‘Associate Editors.’
Joel Papp See under ‘Associate Editors.’
Cosima Pellis grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and is now based in Norwich, Vermont. She is a member of the MALS program at Dartmouth, a cat mom, a dancer, and an avid reader. Her poetic work is inspired by her lived experiences as a woman interacting with the environment and biomes around her.
Julietta Thron is imaginative enough to be a creative writing major and yet cannot for the life of her write a two sentence bio about herself. But she believes the important things to note are that she’s an avid fantasy reader, is convinced aliens are real, and hopes to someday write novels while traveling the world.
Ed Ting See under ‘Alumni Editors.’
Vibha Vasanth is a creative writing student in the MALS program. She likes to write comedic stories, typically for children and young adults, often with a fantastical bent. When she isn’t reading or writing, Vibha can be found baking a newfound recipe in her kitchen or looking for the nearest cat willing to befriend her..
Bri Williams Briana Williams graduated from the MALS program in 2023 with a concentration in Creative Writing. Currently, she resides in New York City, where she works for the Children's department at a publishing company. When she's not reading, she enjoys using her overactive imagination to write her own stories.