Current Staff
co-Editor-in-Chief
Éamonn Shults is a writer and poet studying creative writing and film production at Utah Valley University. He has been commended by the Adroit Prizes 2023, was featured in Happy Magpie’s Pride Poetry Exhibition, and has been published in Route 7 Review, Touchstones, Warp + Weave, Essais, and Highlands to Islands. He works as an Office Lead at a furniture store where he spends his shifts wishing he was watching campy horror films, reading gut wrenching poetry, or doing literally anything else.
co-editor-in-chief
Hillary Holmes is a senior studying Creative Writing at Utah Valley University. With an emphasis in poetry, she has been working on a collection to hopefully be published within the year, as she pursues a Master’s degree. She loves reading classic novels and wishes she could live in the Stourhead Gardens. Hillary is honored to have met and worked with so many wonderful people at Touchstones over the last few semesters. She thanks everyone that has supported her academic journey.
Managing
Editor
Maelle Bargeron is a junior at Utah Valley University getting her degree in English, Writing Studies. She has an affinity for poetry- both reading and writing it- and loves to spend her time outside. She is a creative at heart and spends her free time baking, sewing, or playing with her three dogs. This is her second semester being part of Touchstones and she is excited to join the masthead!
technical editor
Kayla Gray is an emerging author with her work appearing in the literary magazine, Touchstones. She is pursuing a Bachelors degree in Creative Writing and a certificate in Editing and Document Design at Utah Valley University. She enjoys traveling and time with her family.
head prose editor
Julia Allen
head poetry editor
Sierra Jorgensen
Faculty Advisor
Nicholas Bredie is the author of Not Constantinople: a novel, published by Dzanc Books. His writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Public Books among others. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California and is an assistant professor of English at Utah Valley University.