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      • How Much of Reality Can Be Observed
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      • The Floor Wallows Lower
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      • Erudite
      • That One Morning
      • mom, im afraid
      • selenophilia
      • Roses and Rainbows
      • If a poisonous snake bites itself, will it die?
      • Rochester
      • Crown of Branches
      • Stairs to the Sea
      • A Poem Written Entirely From Advertisements
      • Pyromania
      • silhouette of a bird against winter stars
      • thunderstorm in the bedroom
      • A Night in Recovery
      • sleeping gypsie
      • paper dolls&goodbyes
      • We Are Women
      • Village Air
      • Sunshine's Laughter
      • the male gaze
      • The Forensic Entomologist
      • Lacking
      • Drowning
      • Adelie
    • Create the Wonders We Dream (2021)
    • Editor's Note >
      • Zove
      • I'm Sorry
      • Fake Smile
      • My Friend the Balloon
      • Eyes Intertwined
      • Perfect
      • Only a Moment
      • A Dangerous Word
      • My Dreams
      • The Last 100 Meters
      • The Green Void (Villanelle)
      • The Whimsical Galaxy (Sestina)
      • The Silent Kindness
      • Pressure
      • Table on the Hill
      • The Yukon
      • The Shore
      • Repentance
      • Her and I
      • Infections of the Soul
      • Threads
      • Dream of a High Schooler
      • Empty
      • little flame
      • scars
      • black and white
      • The Cat
      • Joy
      • Sweet Honey Bee Stings
      • If There Were One Day
      • Delete
      • Our Hearts to Central Vietnam
      • him or Him?
      • Ocean
      • Es Llaner Beach
      • Sewn Together
      • Rain
      • Yes, I Like
      • The Legacy of the Moon
      • The Wind Whimpers
      • From Here I See
      • To Feel Clean
      • Red
      • Survival
      • Substance
      • Golden Lies
      • Midnight Tango
      • Ode to a Spleen
      • Modern Siren
      • The Night's Diamond Tears
      • Beats In Double Time
      • A Day in the Flight
      • Carved By Venus
      • Lifeline
      • Everest
      • Education
      • How Much of Reality Can Be Observed
      • What is a Spork
      • What is the difference between love and in love
      • What would you have wanted? me to say
      • Planet Caravan
      • The Journey of a Minute
      • The Circus of Scars
      • Mosaic
      • Color
      • Love and Acceptance
    • Colors I Never Knew Existed (2020)
    • Her Voice Remains (2017)
    • Watch Every Second (2018)
    • Words Become Reality (2019)
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2017 Hot Dish Staff

Abigail Fellin

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Abigail Fellin is a junior English major at Buena Vista University. She enjoys short walks to the fridge and can be commonly found wearing slippers as shoes. Abbe is the salt-shaker of Hot Dish’s spice rack, and she loves reading through the submissions and working with the submitters to try and grow as writers.


Sarah Nicholson

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Sarah Nicholson is a Digital Media Major, English minor at Buena Vista University. She has been published in the 2014 edition of Lyrical Iowa and presently writes and takes photos for the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune. Her passions lean heavily between books and movies. Nicholson grew up in Iowa and if not for the help of a teacher who saw potential in her work, she may have never pursued her writing. She hopes Hot Dish can provide others students with a similar sense of validation.



Benita Kamikazi

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Benita Kamikazi is currently a junior at Buena Vista University and is a Marketing major. Her home country, Rwanda, is a tiny but beautiful country located in East Africa. When she’s not listening to 90s hip hop, Benita can be found watching movies or obsessing over watches. With her creative side, she hopes to go into advertising in the future and that is what she does for Hot Dish Magazine. Something that Benita has enjoyed while working for the online magazine was using social media to raise awareness and attract people to Hot Dish Magazine.



Kacee Baker

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Kacee Baker is a senior English major at BVU. She chose her major after seeing The Proposal and deciding she wanted to be an editor, and although she has since changed her career goals and her opinion on the movie, she loved living out her childhood fantasy by reading and editing the great submissions to Hot Dish Magazine.



Ranelle Irwin

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Ranelle Irwin is a junior English major at Buena Vista University. Ranelle’s personality varies from cinnamon roll to cinnamon challenge. She enjoys studying Japanese, playing video games, and running her Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Ranelle does a little bit of everything for the magazine, but she especially enjoys reading the submissions from high school students and seeing the talents and perspectives they bring to the table.



Emily Wedell

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Emily Wedell is a sophomore English and Spanish Major at Buena Vista University. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Emily offers a slightly different perspective of the Midwest than her peers. While others provide the sweetness and saltiness in the magazine, Emily adds the spice. Besides her addictions to movies and a fantastic cup of coffee, she loves writing, being outside, hanging out with friends, and editing the many works submitted to Hot Dish by high school students.



Zainab Uwase

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Zainab Uwase is a sophomore Marketing major at Buena Vista University. Her interests include listening to K-pop albums, reading historical tragedies and keeping up with politics. While working on the magazine she enjoyed reading the submissions from the high school students and being part of something that helps the youth indulge themselves more in literary works.



Joanna Isimbi

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Joanna Isimbi is a junior Marketing and Communication major at Buena Vista University. Born and raised at the heart of Africa, Rwanda, her love for helping others is her reason to live. She passes her time listening to music, watching her favorite TV show, Friends, and reading Danielle Steele books. While gaining experience with the marketing world when promoting the magazine through different platforms, Joanna’s favorite part of Hot Dish Magazine is the team that inexplicably works very hard.



Gwen Hart

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Gwen Hart is an Associate Professor of English at Buena Vista University. She is the author of two books of poetry and numerous short stories in literary magazines such as Litro, Heater, and Calliope. Her second poetry collection, The Empress of Kisses, won the 2015 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. She enjoyed seeing the inaugural issue of Hot Dish Magazine come together through the creative work of BVU students majoring in English, digital media, and marketing.


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