Staff 2025
Charlie
Charlie Jones is the Editor in Chief of KCR this year! They're a senior who loves to write convoluted plots and explore nature through hiking, biking, and rock climbing. He volunteers at the local animal shelters and loves to write flash fiction or poetry about everyday experiences in their array of unique and over-organized notebooks.
Editor-in-Chief
Katharine
Co-Assitant Editor
Katharine Tesar is a second-year Psychology student from Southern California. In her free time, she can be found writing creative nonfiction, playing hide-and-seek with her cat, Midnight, or going on elaborate hikes without checking the weather forecast first. She's been published in the Kolob Canyon Review, and hopes to one day publish a whole book while working tandem as an adolescent clinical psychologist.
Sarah
Sarah is a Junior at SUU, studying English and Philosophy. You can usually find her either wandering around up the canyon, trying new recipes, or taking care of her plants. In her spare time, she enjoys consuming unreasonable amounts of coffee and contemporary fiction. She hopes to eventually have a career in academia and a lot of stories from her own adventures.
Co-Assistant Editor
Case
Website Curator/Fiction Editor
Case has always had a passion for reading and writing and can often be found rereading any of Brandon Sanderson’s books. If he is not reading or writing, he is playing video games and getting way too invested in their lore. He enjoys Destiny, Warframe, and Monster Hunter. His favorite movies include both Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse, The Princess Bride, and both Venom movies. He loves Autumn and the rain it brings.
Hailea
Event and Internal Communications Director
Hailea is a senior English Creative Writing major with a Family Services minor who loves to create spaces for people. Within the literary world, she loves to read pretty much anything you’ll give her, with a particular love for creative nonfiction. She has published pieces with Kolob Canyon Review and The Global Review and hopes to one day publish novels, memoirs, and anything else about whatever captivates her attention.
Autumn is a psychology major with a love of literature. Her favorite genres are poetry and pretty much all kinds of fiction. She is a Lord of the Rings nerd, otter lover, and not-so-reformed theater kid. Autumn can often be found in her Hobbit hole snacking on cheese and dark chocolate, or occasionally going on outdoor adventures/quests.
Autumn
Editor
Kayd
Social Media Manager
Kayd Johanson, when not being a skrunkly weirdo gremlin, is a SUU student studying Creative Writing and Art. For someone in their junior year who cares way too much about cartoons, they can go on for hours about the intricacies of storytelling and why exactly some stories suck (looking at you Wish). They're passionate about seeing stories that can change a person's perspective, mainly ones that can invoke uncomfortable and introspective thoughts about someone and their worldview. They enjoy reading both fiction and creative nonfiction an excessive amount. They won first place in Scriblerian's Expressive category their Freshman year in the Spring of 2023, and have only grown as a writer since then. They want to help others tell their stories and get their passions out there, and in their opinion, a literary journal is an amazing way to do it.
Kaylee
Website Curator
Kaylee Condie is a complete bookwyrm. She doesn't inch her way through books like an adorable worm, she inhales them with the fury of a dragon. Sometimes as many as two 400-paged books a day. Her favorites are middle-grade fantasy, rom-coms, and picture books. You can normally find her on the third floor of the university library, in the children's or YA section in the public library, or on the swing dance floor. The only time her nose isn't in a book is when she's dancing or driving. While she is a child at heart, she is a senior at SUU. She also loves semi-sweet chocolate, lemonade, karaoke, and playing Just Dance. She can also go on long tangents about Miraculous Ladybug, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and why Pumpkin Pie is horrible.
Morganne is a senior majoring in English Literature. As an literature lover, you can probably find her reading gothic classics or writing poetry. Outside of school she enjoys crocheting, hiking, and going to concerts!
Morganne
Assistant Event Manager
Jay
Assistant Event Manager
Jay is a junior at SUU studying English literature, that enjoys tales of faeries, K-pop, audio dramas, Dungeons and Dragons and crochet. They’ve been captured by stories, both reading and writing, for about eighteen years. The majority of their writing has been speculative fiction, and currently they are working on a novel! Most of the time you can find them hanging around campus with headphones and their nose in a book.
Parker
Editor
Parker is in his Sophomore year at Southern Utah University, majoring in both Social Work and Communication. Parker is passionate about helping others in his path and would like to continue to do so as a specialized therapist. Parker loves to be involved, steeped in leadership positions, and connecting with others whenever possible, and as such tends to have many upcoming plans he’s excited for. When he has free time, Parker loves to read, play video games, hang out with friends, and spend time outdoors being active. You’ll never know if he is spending his weekend partying to Pitbull, or trudging through the narrows in Zion!
Terran
Social Media Manager
Terran is a junior in the Outdoor Rec program who enjoys both playing in the outdoors as well as writing about it. He recently moved to Southern Utah from the Death Valley region and is passionate about using the arts for environmental advocacy. He likes to camp, ride horses, and hike—but prefers to take it slow so he can take note of every rock, plant, and insect on the trail. He loves to write and read fiction and poetry.
Isaac
Social Media Manager
I have not yet rolled past the dock or the sea in an electric car. This is only to spite my arch-nemesis: alternative-rock band They Might Be Giants. However, that does seem like a good time, because I really love exploring dramatic settings. Future career goals include becoming a wildlife biologist and spending my work-days hiking around the boonies and my work nights at my high salaried book club. Fiction is my jam, I better finish the short stuff before I can dream of writing something longer.
Rachel is a senior who is double majoring in Creative Writing and Equine studies. She can be found with her nose stuck in a book or cozied up playing Animal Crossing New Horizons. A lover of all things literature, Rachel is so excited to mount up and help create this year’s edition of the Kolob Canyon Review. Yee haw!
Rachel
Assistant Event Manager
Rayne is a Junior English Creative Writing Major. She is an avid vinyl collector and is proud of all her orginal Beatle records. When she is not playing Animal Crossing, you can find her at Indie Rock concerts, running, or rewatching Twilight. She hopes to become a published author writing YA sci-fi and realistic fiction.
Serving as KCR faculty advisor (since 2019) is the best job Nano's ever had. The indie poetry mag he cofounded, Sugar House Review, is celebrating 15 years in 2024. An underachieving poet, you can spot some of his stuff in a handful of fine literary journals. Most importantly, he would very much like to meet your dog.