Linda Blaskey

Linda Blaskey Lincoln Masters Literature: Poetry By: Gail Obenreder “A few months ago, I heard someone say, ‘You have to know your why.’ And it seems I have found mine: keep learning, keep writing, pay it forward.” Masters Fellow Linda Blaskey was a writer from the start: “I was always getting into trouble in school […]

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Katie West

Katie West Wilmington Emerging Visual Arts: Photography By: Gail Obenreder “I aim to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary, finding and sharing beauty in things we might walk past every day.” Katie West learned early in life about the power of images. Her father, an electrical engineer, was “an incredible amateur photographer” with a darkroom […]

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William Torrey

William Torrey Middletown Established Literature: Fiction By: Gail Obenreder “Even the smallest of moments, even the quickest interactions, are loaded with meaning and mystery and truth.” For as long as he can remember, William Torrey has loved telling stories. Throughout high school, he kept an online journal “read by dozens of my peers.” Though he […]

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