Missy Staff: Fall 2022
Applications open through July 1, 2022.
Missy Staff: Spring 2022
Tyler Gillespie teaches first-year writing in UM’s FASTrack program. His writing can be found in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and GQ. He’s the author of Florida Man: Poems and the nonfiction collection The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State. He is leaving the University of Mississippi this summer. He serves as Missy’s faculty advisor.
Grace Marion is a senior print and broadcast journalism major at the University of Mississippi, minoring in Spanish. She’s leaving to study journalism at U.C. Berkeley’s Masters program this fall. She is Missy’s Managing Editor.
Breyton Moran is a senior looking forward to nursing school in the fall. He is Missy’s Outreach Editor.
Shayla Drzycimski is a sophomore English student and Missy’s Associate Editor
Addison Ward is a freshman English major from Virginia and Missy’s Web Editor.
Trey Herbert is a junior theater student and Missy’s Submissions Editor.
Trinity Dodd is a psychology student and a member of Missy’s Outreach Team.
Other staff members included Alana Freimanis, Sarah May, Camryn Mason, Angeline Morgan and Nadia Sumlar among others.
Spring 2022 contributors also included Stella Martin, Autumn Lindsey, Carlie Smith, Tyler White, Amy Webb, Josephina Majorovits, Ashton Custer, Nicolette Boyd and Angeline Morgan.
Missy Staff: Spring 2019 - Fall 2021 (COVID-19)
Tyler Gillespie teaches first-year writing in UM’s FASTrack program. His writing can be found in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and GQ. He’s the author of Florida Man: Poems and the nonfiction collection The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State.
Michael Martella is a former biology and environmental science teacher from Brandon, Mississippi. He is an MFA candidate studying poetry at the University of Mississippi. His writing focuses on the intersections of identity and environment and can be found in Rust+Moth and the forthcoming anthology, Queer Nature.
Greg Parker is currently a 7th-Grade English teacher. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2020 as an English Education major. During college, he worked as a writing tutor at the university’s Writing Center and served as the Vice President (2018-19) then Co-President (2019-20) of the UM Pride Network.
Liz Parks is an undergraduate Psychology student at the University of Mississippi. Her current aim beyond graduation is to pursue counseling and eventually work in the area of queer mental health. She loves people and is always looking for ways to be involved and support her LGBTQ+ community.
Emily Stewart is an undergraduate International Studies and Arabic major at the University of Mississippi. She works as a Community Assistant in Student Housing
Grace Marion is a junior print and broadcast journalism major at the University of Mississippi, minoring in Spanish. She’s written for at least 12 publications, been mentioned by at least 32, been on staff at five, and been an editor at two (three!). She currently works as a freelance reporter for the Mississippi Free Press.