The Diamond Line

The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Literary Magazine

CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Alyssa Riley

Alyssa Riley is a senior News/Editorial Journalism major working for Hill Magazine and the Razorback Yearbook. Alyssa has wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember, and through her studies gravitated toward the art of...

Reeya Gandhi

Reeya Gandhi is a senior at the University of Arkansas majoring in social work and minoring in English. In the future, she hopes to obtain her master's in social work and specialize in sex therapy, helping victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. In her free...

Jackson Cook

Jackson Cook is a junior from Little Rock, Arkansas. He can typically be found playing tennis at Wilson Park or watching unwatchable movies with his roommates.

Rachel Sweningson

Rachel Sweningson is an undergraduate student majoring in English education.  Her writing has been featured in The Green Blotter literary magazine and The Diamond Line’s Spring 2022 issue.  In between her studies, Rachel enjoys reading, watching video essays, and...

Payton Willhite

Payton Willhite is a third-year Creative Writing Major with a minor in Anthropology. She loves realistic fiction and fantasy but has focused more on poetry over the last few semesters. Outside of school, she works in elementary arts education and enjoys practicing...

Suzanne Gourley

Suzanne Gourley is a fourth-year senior studying English with a focus in Topical Studies. She graduates this May and plans to seek a career in the publishing field. Suzanne grew up in Southern Missouri and moved to Fayetteville to attend the University of Arkansas in...

Emma Bracken

Emma is a freshman student studying Journalism/English at the University of Arkansas with a concentration in Creative Writing. She loves all types of media—books, TV, movies, music—but has a specific appreciation for magical realism and extended metaphor. Her hobbies...

Caleb Barnard

Caleb Barnard was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a current freshman at the University of Arkansas pursuing a Business major. In high school, he had friends who would take pictures with film and it always was something he was interested in. He then...

Eanthe Pieterse

Eanthe is a creative. She has a passion for all things art and creation - videography, poetry, drawing, photography, fashion, and painting. Her days are spent collecting old clothes, daydreaming, and taking film photos. She is a Business Marketing Major at the U of A...

Charlie McCormick

Charlie’s interest in collage art began during her childhood, where she would spend hours cutting out pictures from magazines and piecing them together to create intricate designs. As she began to create pieces that reflected her experiences as a young woman...

Boniblu Choate

Boniblu Choate is a senior at the University of Arkansas.  She enjoys reading and writing (especially about nothing), and works as a resident assistant in one of the university’s dorms.  In her free time, she loves to visit her family in Oklahoma.  At these times, she...

Stella Greenhill

Raised in the Ozarks, Stella works to recontextualize personal experiences through mythologizing them, providing pieces that feel both familiar and obfuscated. Their identity as a queer artist saturates their work, as they pull from a rich lexicon of imagery provided...

Arden Malloy

Arden Malloy is an undergrad creative writing major in her junior year at the UofA. She has been previously published by Fayetteville High School’s Connotations, the Fayetteville Public Library’s The Wanderer, and had her work featured on her mom’s fridge....

Andi Marie Carey

Andi Marie Carey is an English Major at the University of Arkansas, currently finishing her fourth and final year. Writing poetry about her life (namely her bad relationships and her religious upbringing), is her favorite hobby. This issue of “The Diamond Line” houses...