Meet the Staff
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Gaia Splendore
Editor-in-Chief
Hey all! My name is Gaia and my love for literature started when my mom would read Nancy Drew to me before bed every night and peaked when I read Madame Bovary in AP Lit. Prose is my jam, but I've been dipping a toe into poetry this year. Writing and oration has always been the way my brain defaults to express itself.
Megan Yarusso
Editor-in-Chief
Megan Yarusso is a Senior majoring in English and SOAN. She enjoys reading, writing, crocheting, and playing her cello. She has a lot of love for all things literature and is excited to see what Augie students will bring to this year's edition of SAGA!
Stephanie Beley
Art Editor
I love art, journaling, and books. I'm a collector of odd earrings and odder stickers. I'm clothes obsessed and I love dressing up for any occasion. I can be found playing badminton or hanging out with friends.
Victoria Campbell
Art Editor
Victoria is a Junior studying English and Creative Writing. She spends her time on campus being fashionably late to class, painting with water colors, reading, and spending time with friends. She is very excited to see what kind of art everyone will submit!
Billy Adams
Poetry Editor
Billy Adams is a senior at Augustana majoring in English who is on the road to law school. He spends too much time adding things to his online shopping cart and writing down secrets. He is currently the copy editor for the Observer.
Natalie Whitney
Poetry Editor
Hi I’m Natalie! I’m a first-year and am also apart of Concert Band and Film Club. I enjoy watching movies and spending time with friends and hope to work at an embassy in the future. I’m super excited to read the work of my peers!
Andrew Doughty
Prose Editor
Andrew Doughty is a Junior majoring in both Secondary and Middle Grades English Education with a minor in Creative Writing. This year he serves as one of the Prose Board Editors for Saga and Co-President for Club ED. He also enjoys singing in the Augustana Concert Chorale and working at the Thomas Tredway Library (Research Help and Circulation). In his free time, Andrew enjoys reading, crocheting, taking care of his houseplants, traveling, and hanging out with friends!
Madeline Hutchinson
Prose Editor
Madeline is a junior majoring in English and Creative Writing and minoring in Spanish and Theatre. She also participates in Jenny Lind vocal ensemble and the theatre department. She enjoys reading, writing, and baking.
Sam Bougous
Copy Editor
Sam Bourgous
Alonso Vizcarra-Roman
Copy Editor
Alonso Vizcarra-Roman
Rebekah Kalmbach
Prose
A left handed, (slightly) feral art and creative writing major who writes silly little stories and paints silly little pictures. She loves sunflowers, Van Gogh, Lord of the Rings, her dogs, and ice cream.
​Sophia Behnke
Outreach/Social Media Manager and Poetry Board Member
Sophie Behnke is a Junior majoring in English and Creative Writing with a minor in WGSS. She loves writing in all forms and is excited for her second year working with SAGA. When she’s not writing poetry, she works in the Reading/Writing Center on campus as a Peer Tutor.
Rosemary Sierra
Web Editor/Outreach Assistant
Rosemary is a sophomore majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders and minoring in Art. She loves spending time in nature, watching movies, and contemplating all the art she wants to make but hasn’t quite gotten around to yet. She is very excited to be apart of this years SAGA.
Lainey Terfruchte
Production Manager
Lainey Terfruchte is a senior majoring in English and creative writing, with minors in music and history. She enjoys reading and writing about uncanny women, playing the harp, and making visual art. She is excited to see what this year’s edition of SAGA has in store.
McKenna Lewis
Production Assistant
McKenna Lewis is a junior majoring in English and Communications. She is the Co-President and Social Media Manager of Unabridged Book Club and is a Peer Tutor in the Reading/Writing Center. She spends her free time reading existential literature or writing poetry into the margins of her homework.