Meagan Cass & Co.

This month's issue of Stirring was edited by Dr. Meagan Cass and her ENG 271-Introduction to Poetry Writing class at the University of Illinois-Springfield. Student editors include Laura Johnson, Maureen Bocka, Keianna Robinson, Ryan McConville, Neil Getty, and Natasha Banas.

Meagan Cass is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois-Springfield. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette, where she was a founding editor of the online literary journal Rougarou. Meagan's stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, The Pinch, Devil's Lake, Hobart Web, NOÉ Journal, Grist, Stymie, Aethlon, and others. Her current book project is a collection of short fiction themed around sports, games, and memory, set in the suburbs of New York City in the 1980s and 1990s.