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EXECUTIVE
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POETRY
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  BRIAN ARMSTRONG is a third year English major interested in media of all kinds. He loves photography (especially night photography), cinematography, and design. And music. And poetry. And technology. Despite the ease of electronic communication, he feels that nothing beats an epistolary correspondence. In addition to Westwind, he is also involved in UCLA's Film and Photography Society and CRUXimaging, a side-project multimedia company he co-founded in 2007.
MARCUS BJOERKQVISTis a Swedish exchange student majoring in
 Comparative Literature, fourth year. Born in a dark and dreary country, Marcus often sought refuge from the dullness of life in the world of fiction and in secret aspirations of going somewhere far, far away to cultivate his desire for reading, finally ending up in Los Angeles. He enjoys reading, watching movies, listening to music of all kinds, discovering new things and, more perhaps than anything, he enjoys referring to himself in the third person.
DANIEL BODENwas born in 1987 in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent his youth in the ignominious hamlet of Antioch, CA. He was a genius. The system told him he was a genius. The system let him play Oregon Trail, use a real oven, tool around in the darkroom, and paint watercolors once a week instead of going to real school. He never lost a student government election. His campaign tactics were brutal and his opponents were consequently crushed. He lived one year in Washington DC as a congressional page and two years in Montreal as a missionary. He spent the summers of his youth in Paris and Normandy with his French grandparents. They culled mussels buried in the sand, fallen from their sticks, but only at low tide. His grandmother stewed them in butter and white wine. They ate moules frites that night. He is a second-year studying Political Science. He is not a published author. He is literate and sometimes reads. He speaks English, French, and Spanish. He thinks Jean Seberg is sexy. Tu parles Charles. Dégeuelasse.
MICHELLE BOYERS is a first-year English major from Los Altos, California. Her favorite pastimes include choreographing modern dances, listening to live music, spending time in the Sierras, and writing. She loves dresses from the 20s and 40s, classic movies and cartoons, and dancing when no one is watching.
RYAN BROWN is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in Creative
 Writing. Besides writing creatively, he likes to play musical instruments, tennis, watch old-school movies, write for the Daily Bruin, travel and make friends.
JAMES BUNNING James Bunning is a third-year English major and Film minor
 from Mission Viejo, California. He competed in Spring Sing last year, performing his original composition, “What Time Has Done,” at Pauley Pavilion with his band, No Chaser. It should be noted that Jon Salfity, the drummer of No Chaser, actually stole the show when he valiantly crutched out on stage and played despite tearing his meniscus less than a month before Spring Sing. Although he spends any time he can writing music and playing for anyone that will listen, James has been known to be productive. He was awarded the Clara Rusk Hastings Scholarship for his performance in the English 10 series, is a member of the Alumni Scholars Club, and works as a copy editor for the Daily Bruin, where he writes very “punny” headlines.
GENIE CARTIER is a fourth year English major with a concentration in creative
 writing. This is her second year as the senior poetry editor of Westwind. She enjoys reading, writing and playing with fire.
 JENAE COHN is a third-year English major from Sacramento, California. She writes as an arts and entertainment reporter for UCLA’s student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, tutors writing composition for Covel Tutorials, and contributes to the Los Angeles arts and culture blog, LA City Zine. While Jenae’s primary artistic interests lie in literary pursuits, she loves theatre, classical music (Ravel and Debussy remain her favorite composers), and restaurant hopping. Let her take you to dim sum; she’ll insist you try the chicken feet.
MISAEL GIOVANNI DIAZ is a student at UCLA pursuing degrees in Art
 History and Latin American Studies. Currently, he is working on a series of artistic projects addressing violence in the city of Tijuana, in conjunction with his research on contemporary art in Mexico.
 PATRICIA GUZMAN is a third-year English major with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Environmental Systems and Society from Santa Maria, California. She volunteers through Circle K International, writes for The Daily Bruin’s Arts and Entertainment section, and tutors English at AAP. Patricia would like to move to New York someday to pursue a career in journalism and write profusely. At some point in her life she would like to join the Peace Corps and teach English and HIV/AIDS awareness in Africa. She loves coffee, modern dance, indie-rock, live-music, nature, traveling, and extreme sports.
JESSICA HALDEMAN is a third year English and Art History major from
 Philadelphia, PA. She loves traveling, attempting to speak French,watching baseball, and rock climbing. She also has the delusional belief that she can read BBC's "Top 100 Books Of All Time" before she turns thirty. This theory has yet to be proven.
CLAIRE HELLAR is a third-year English major in the Creative Writing Concentration. She loves literature, poetry, chocolate, Asian dramas, indie films, and television. She grew up in Papua New Guinea as a missionary kid and moved to California during high school. She spends most of her time studying, but in her free time she writes for Dramafever.com, attends Grace on Campus, and loves to hang out with friends. She's opinionated about any number of things including the Peace Corps, vegetables, the color pink, and the state of modern literature. Give her anything with a beat and she'll dance to it.
 CARRIE JONES is a fourth-year English and Communication Studies major, from Atlanta, Georgia. She writes as a columnist and is a former Assistant Viewpoint Editor in the Daily Bruin. She is also an assistant to a non-fiction literary agent.
ANGELICA LAI is a first year English major who was born on Guam and moved
 to Las Vegas for three years. Her creativity is revealed through post-it notes and alphabet cereal. She’s a big fan of 1) Food, 2) Corny puns, 3) Food, 4) A good book with a good cup of hot chocolate, 5) Writing backwards, and 6) Food, food, food.
 KRISTA LAUDER is a third-year English major/Spanish minor,raised in the small town of Moorpark, CA (you probably haven't heard ofit). In addition to being a poetry editor for Westwind, she is areporter for Daily Bruin Radio and an Office Assistant is Sproul hall.She enjoys reading (anything), working out, cooking and baking, playingwith her dogs, swimming, and hanging out with friendsand family. She also loves having movie or television marathons withher brother (favorite shows include South Park and 24)
 SHIRLEY MAK is a fourth year English major and film minor from Union City, California. Ironically, even though she loves the Bay Area, her non-literary interests include travel and watching (good) movies. She doesn't like to list her interests and activities so just talk to her if you really want to know. And if you feel especially ambitious, do let her school you in a game of Scrabble!
KRISTINE MILLER is a third year English major from Santa Barbara. Her guilty pleasures include anything with nutella, watching "Cool Runnings," browsing the Anthropologie online catelogue, going on adventures, the smell of old books, surfing, and all things British. She is also involved in the UCLA Triathlon team and Chi Omega.
ANDREW MONCADA is a second-year Political Science major from Novato,
 California. He likes riding elevators.
JOHN NELSON is originally from San Diego and has moved sixteen times since.
 His life's highlights include two years as an ambulance driver, four showings of his art and the opportunity to speak on the evolution of the visual narrative at the Pop Culture Association in San Francisco. John enjoys run-on sentences, maps and films about the Vietnam War. He is an English major and plans to teach college literature at some point, but in the meantime his goal is to write and illustrate stories in both visual narrative and children's literature.
 LAURA PETRY is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in Creative Writing. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Pittsburgh, PA, and the subsequent six in Orange County, CA. She is the Co-Executive Director of Bruin Partners, a one-on-one tutoring/mentoring program for middle school students, and Assistant Commissioner for the Community Service Commission. She is paid in warm fuzzy feelings.
REBECCA ROYCROFT is a first year physics major from the San Francisco
 bay area. She enjoys most school subjects as well as dance and the fine art of Netflix. She especially loves trying to learn quantum mechanics in general chemistry, dressing up in period costumes, exploring the future, and being that girl who can’t sing at all but gets really into it anyways at karaoke night. Her current obsessions include Star Trek, Victorian letter writing and etiquette, and (after a recent trip) most things Alaska.
 AMY SANCHEZ is a fourth-year Art History and English major from El Centro, California. She is a section editor for UCLA’s latino news magazine, La Gente de Aztlan. She recycles, likes yellow, loves her mama, sings on cue, and swears like a petite sailor.
 JEFFREY SONG is a fourth-year English with a concentration in Creative Writing and Asian American Studies double-major from Chino Hills, California.
 MICHAEL M. TRAN is a third-year English major with a concentration in Creative Writing from Huntington Beach, California. His activities include listening to and playing music, watching acclaimed films, rock climbing, knowing vast amounts of trivial facts for trivia shows, and of course, writing.
 GRACE TSAI is a third-year English major from Anaheim Hills, California. Her activities include China Care Bruins, Hawaii Club, and occasionally running and tennis. She is a rabid fan of nearly all word games.
TATIANA TSALOUKIDIS is a fourth-year English major with a
 concentration in Creative Writing. She is involved in College Honors and English Departmental Honors, and is currently writing a collection of short stories for her Senior Thesis. She grew up in Boston, and yes, she did cry when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. She also thinks Conan O’Brien is wicked smart and wicked funny, and is devising a scheme to get him to speak at UCLA’s commencement this year. She survived twelve years of Catholic school and twenty snowy winters before she made her way out West. Now, she can tolerate exactly three consecutive days without sunshine before paralyzing lethargy and/or bone-crushing depression kick in. She admires the proper use of the semicolon, loathes the unnecessary use of the apostrophe—and unapologetically overuses the dash.
AJ URQUIDI is out there. AJ Urquidi can't be bargained with. AJ Urquidi can't be
 reasoned with. AJ Urquidi doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. AJ Urquidi comes from the future. AJ Urquidi must destroy Sarah Connor. AJ Urquidi comes from the future. AJ Urquidi must destroy Sarah Connor. AJ Urquidi comes from the future. AJ Urquidi must destroy Sarah Connor. Where can AJ Urquidi find Sarah Connor?
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