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Contributors
September 8, 2014 | Occasus | Issue 4

RAYNA ABERNATHY is a third year student at Western currently pursuing an Honors Specialization in English Language and Literature with a minor in Creative Writing.

PATRICIA ARHINSON is a first year student at Western. She has an interest in mental health, and wishes to pursue a career in psychology.

CHELSEA BRIMSTIN is completing an Honour's Specialization in Creative Writing and a Major in Math.

EMMA CROLL-BAEHRE is an undergraduate student currently pursuing an Honours Specialization in English Language and Literature at the University of Western Ontario. Emma began writing poetry at an early age, and has been involved with numerous poetry readings, including The April Rabbit and The Tangle creative writing events, in her home province of Newfoundland and Labrador as a participant and facilitator. Emma has also published her work in numerous creative writing journals and has read her work at various journal launches, including that of The Paper Mill Press. Emma aspires to publish a collection of her poetry in the near future.

LYNDSAY FEARNALL
is a fourth year student at Huron University College where she is completing an Honours Specialization in English Language and Literature.

NATALIE FRANKE is a Toronto-based writer, film theory student, and Oxford comma user.

KEVIN HESLOP is a student at Western University.

LEVI HORD is a first year student in the SASAH and Scholar's Electives programs, who is also majoring in Sexuality Studies. Leanne has had two of her original plays featured in the Grand Theatre's High School Playwright's Cabaret. She has had her short fiction published in school publications, and is an active participant in London's spoken word poetry scene.

KATARINA HUELLEMANN is in third year at Western pursuing a major in Psychology and a minor in Creative Writing.

GARY JACKSON is studying music at Western as a double bass performance major. He composes music, plays in several bands, and has recently rediscovered his childhood interest in creative writing.

RICHARD JOSEPH is a first-year student at the University of Western Ontario studying in the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.

CARA LEUNG is a Fourth Year UWO Student completing an Honours Specialization in English Language and Literature.

ERICA MCKEEN
is a second year student at Western. She is currently completing an Honors Specialization in Creative Writing and English Language Literature. She has been published in issue four of Occasus, and issue three of Nom de Plume.

LAURA MCKINSTRY has graduated from Western University with an undeclared Bachelor of Arts.

ROBYN OBERMEYER is a fourth year student at Western University studying English Language and Literature and Creative Writing. She loves music, poetry and art above all else, and she has begun to work on her first collection of poetry. She lives in London with her partner of three years.

BRITTANY RENAUD
is a fourth year student at Western University studying for an BA with an Honours Specialization in Creative Writing and English Language and Literature and a Major in Comparative Literature and Culture. She grew up in Chatham, Ontario with her mother, father, younger sister Brooke, and Rocky, her dog.

ETHAN RADOMSKI is a second year student at Western University majoring in English Literature and minoring in Creative Writing.

TAMARA SPENCER is a third year student pursuing an Honors Specialization in English and Creative Writing, as well as a Major in Women’s Studies.

TRAVIS WELOWSKY is a student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. He is the Editor-in-chief of Openwide vol. 15 and a member of the FIMSSC. His first film, Debt Sentence, debuted at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2014.

VICTORIA WIEBE is a second year Psychology student with a minor in Creative Writing. Writing has always been her passion, penning three novel-length works (two of which, Continuum and The Lonely Hearts, have been published), as well as countless poems. She served as President of the Creative Writing Club and Editor-in-Chief of Nom de Plume literary magazine for the 2014-2015 year.

DAVID WITMER recently graduated from Western with a double major in English and History. He is currently teaching English abroad and freelance writing for several online outlets.

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