Miranda Schaub

Editor-in-Chief

Miranda Schaub is a graduate student at Central Michigan University. She received her Bachelor’s Degree at Central with a concentration in Creative Writing.  Her focus in graduate school is on both Language and Literature and Creative Writing. Miranda was hired in Fall 2016 as a Graduate Assistant in order to teach English Composition classes to mostly incoming freshman. For fun, she likes to read, write poetry, run, play basketball and volleyball, and water ski. 

Gino Fracassa

Managing Editor

Gino R. Fracassa is a theater producer and a Graduate Assistant at CMU. He studies Creative Writing, enjoys science and music, and is an expert on bad movies. You can usually find him teaching ENG 101 or falling off his bike in the park.

Regan Schaeffer

Layout Designer

Regan Schaeffer has been a graduate student at CMU since 2010, and a Temenos editor since 2011. She is a reader, a writer, and an editor. She thinks being an editor is the best.

Amanda Larson

Creative Non-Fiction Editor

Amanda Larson is currently a graduate student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Central Michigan University, working towards an MA in English Language and Literature.  She graduated from Central College in Pella, IA (where they make the windows) with a BA in English.  She lives in Midland with her husband and her cockapoo, Arthur, where she enjoys knitting, reading fantasy novels, and playing League of Legends.  

Ben Thorp

Creative Non-Fiction Editor

Ben Thorp is a reporter for WCMU and a graduate student working on his MA in Creative Writing from Central Michigan University. He has been described as “semi-literate” by more people than he can remember and is still waiting for the other shoe to drop on this literary journal thing. He’s still stuck on that part of Moby Dick with all the whale graphs. He thinks he’ll get past it someday. He won’t.

Kevin Thomas

Fiction Editor

Kevin Thomas is a student in the M.A. in Humanities program at Central Michigan University. He graduated from Purdue University with a B.A. in English. Before entering graduate school, he worked for two years as a Quiz Writer for Scholastic Inc. Currently, he is a Graduate Assistant at the CMU Writing Center. His work has been published in The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature and First Opinions, Second Reactions. He enjoys reading and discussing history and continental philosophy and plans to pursue a PhD in intellectual history.

Lilah Galvin

Social Media Coordinator

Lilah is a graduate assistant at CMU teaching freshman composition. She enjoys reading, writing, kayaking, and sarcasm. She also has tattoos, so she's pretty okay.

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Former Staff

Zachary Riddle
Maye Zerull
Carrie Polega
Kenneth Otani
​Karli Henning
​Mika Yamamoto 
Amanda Shepard
Abigail Hollingsworth 
Hailee Sattavara
​Erin Lewis
Justin Sayen

Samantha Dine
Elizabeth Podufaly Bauer
Gabriel Hutchenson
Jason A. Harvey
Deepa Shakya
Jenelle Dembsey
Amee Schmidt
Paul Anderson
Benjamin Lambright
Jeremy Ball
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Chris Wiesman
Michelle Campbell
Jonathan Barefield
Brian McKenna
Josh Crummer
Kyle Eveleth
Sarah Goldbort
Elyse Nelmark
Josh Whicker