Cardinal Directions

Helping Ball State humanities majors pivot from college to career.

Team: Old Friends

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    Bruno Reinert
    February 10, 2022 by

    As a Digital Marketing Specialist, Bruno manages all digital advertisements, analytics, and social media for the agency. Driven by data and analytics, he leads clients in the digital marketing realm to implement strategies that deliver measurable results. Bruno previously worked in strategic communications for a local nonprofit and for Ball State University’s English and History […]

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    Melissa Jones
    February 10, 2022 by

    With a background in creative, professional, and journalistic writing, Melissa serves as the copywriter and brand storyteller at Intersection. She brings with her more than 4 years of experience working at local newspapers, as well as more than 2 years of experience in public relations and communications at Ball State University. Melissa also served as […]

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  • Sarah Hollowell
    January 21, 2022 by

    Sarah Hollowell is a fat, queer Hoosier writer aiming to up the magic quotient of Indiana. Her debut YA contemporary fantasy novel, A Dark and Starless Forest, is available now. Her work has appeared on The NoSleep Podcast, Fireside Fiction, Huffington Post, and in The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and the […]

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    Angela Jackson-Brown
    January 21, 2022 by

    Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing, English and African American Studies at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She is also a member of the graduate faculty of the School of Creative and Professional Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn […]

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    Lauren Cross
    January 19, 2022 by

    Lauren Cross’s writing has appeared in Catapult, Hippocampus, Navigating Narratives: A Thematic Reader and elsewhere. Her essay, “How to Preserve a Body,” was a finalist for Fourth Genre’s 2020 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest. She currently serves as the creative nonfiction editor for Sweet Lit, and she teaches at her alma mater, Ball State University. […]

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    Katy Rank Lev
    January 14, 2022 by

    Katy Rank Lev is a freelance writer, editor, and educator living in Pittsburgh, PA. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and has over 15 years’ experience in communications, ranging from nonprofit donor relations to feature-style magazine articles in national publications like Parents magazine. She specializes in higher education communications, […]

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    Jill Christman
    January 13, 2022 by

    Jill Christman is a 2020 NEA Prose Fellow and the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (winner of the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction) and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood (Shebooks & Audible.com). Her essays have appeared in magazines such as Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Iron Horse Literary Review, Longreads, and O The Oprah Magazine—and her new collection, If This […]

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    Jim Miller
    January 11, 2022 by

    Jim Miller is a second-year in Ball State University’s MA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. His creative work is comprised of short fiction focused on American culture. His other interests include web design and foreign language translation. In the past, he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in […]

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  • Katy Didden
    January 6, 2022 by

    Katy Didden is poet with a special interest in the relationship between text and image; the history of the elegy; and poetry and the environment. Her first book, The Glacier’s Wake, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press, and was published in 2013. She is currently working on a manuscript of mixed media erasure […]

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