Brad King grew up telling stories. All kinds of stories if you believe his parents. Growing up in Loveland, Ohio, a small town on the edges of Cincinnati’s rural farmlands, he spent much of his childhood creating games and building fantasy story worlds. Since then, his passion for storytelling has never wavered. After graduating from Miami University in 1994, King earned his Master’s from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. He then went to work for Condé Nast’s Wired magazine and its sister website Wired News covering the convergence of technology and culture.
In 2002 he co-authored Dungeons & Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic, a book on the history of computer games, virtual worlds and their effects on American culture for McGraw-Hill. In 2004, he was the senior editor and executive producer for MIT’s Technology Review online.
Today he is an assistant professor of journalism at Ball State University. In 2010, he edited, Bunker Hill Extreme: How Seven Days in the Cold, Rain, and Mud Changed a Community, a student-produced book about the television program Extreme Makover: Home Edition’s production in Kokomo, Indiana. In 2011, he edited and wrote an essay for If I Leave Here Tomorrow: Tales of Risk & Rebirth, Invictus Vol. 1, a student-produced book of essays about the journey of life.
Email: jbking at bsu dot edu
Twitter: @thebradking, @bsu_brad
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David C. Ake grew up on a dead-end dirt road outside of Monticello, Ind. He joined the Army after high school, serving four years overseas in Germany and Iraq as an M1A1 Abrams tank gunner. He credits the letters he often wrote home as the catalyst for his writing career.
At the end of his service, David went back to Indiana and earned an associate’s degree while writing for several newspapers. He started as an advertising salesman, writing stories in his spare time before becoming a full-time daily news reporter.
David left newspapers to study magazine journalism and political science at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. He lives there with his girlfriend Anjee. After Ball State David hopes to continue his education and earn a master’s degree in magazine journalism.
Twitter: @davidake
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Valerie Carnevale likes to tell people she was born in southern California, then not tell them that she moved to Elkhart, Indiana when she was just four months old. After 9 years in Elkhart, the Carnevale clan moved to Cicero, Indiana where Valerie spent her formative years living on a lake, learning to wakeboard and riding her bike all over the one-stoplight town.
A journalism graphics major at Ball State, Valerie loves all forms of story-telling: writing, photography, design, and snail mail letters. Her biggest accomplishment to date is walking across the Grand Canyon in a single day in the middle of June.
Valerie will be traveling to England during summer 2012 to study abroad and cover the Olympics with Ball State journalism and after graduation she hopes to create a career in documentary photography and wander the earth, photographing the world’s children.
Twitter: @vmcarnevale
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Katelin Carter grew up Carmel, Indiana where she spent her childhood exploring the woods behind her house and getting lost in any book she could get her hands on. In high school, she picked up a camera and was convinced to join the yearbook staff. Since then, she’s always had a love for storytelling.
Now a senior journalism graphics major at Ball State University, she enjoys riding her bike, train travel and exploring the world as much as possible. This past summer, Katelin interned at YES! Magazine located in Seattle, Washington. When she graduates in May, she hopes to return to the Pacific Northwest contributing to movements of positive change and sustainability.
Twitter: @katelincarter
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Tyrone Malik Cato was born in Fort Wayne, Ind. He practiced the alto saxophone for jazz and concert bands from elementary into high school. Much of his time was spent playing videogames, and discovering how much fun it was to come up with and share ridiculous stories.
He would go on to join the Three Rivers Jenbé Ensemble (now the Three Rivers Institute of Afrikan Art and Culture), an educational outreach forum. The TRJE/TRIAAC teaches and practices traditional song and dance of the Malinké people.of West Africa. He helped the group raise enough money to take 10 of the members on a three-week study tour in Guinea, West Africa. It was there Malik got a taste of what life was like outside of the U.S.
Malik is now a senior at Ball State University studying magazine journalism and journalism graphics. After his upcoming internship at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, who knows.
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Shawn Fink is a senior Magazine Journalism major at Ball State University, having previously studied Industrial Design at the University of Kansas.
He has been a writer and a photographer from a young age. In his spare time, he can be found restoring and riding vintage motorcycles.
Twitter: Twitterless
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Rusty Fox lives and writes fiction and screenplays in the outskirts of Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Ball State University during his formative years where he earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Classical Culture.
Recently taking over as a Co-Editor of the Handwritten zine Rusty hopes to debut its first issue in the summer of 2012.
Rusty has been an active if somewhat reluctant participant in the Invictus writers group, which will produce Volume II of its annual series in the summer of 2012.
Rusty has also written a short screenplay that was chosen along with four other scripts to be produced in Ball State’s CEI program, a simulation of the experience of a professional movie production atmosphere. The short film, Crossroads, will debut in April 2012.
Working a variety of media related jobs over the years from a crew member at IMAX theaters to a librarian’s assistant at Ball State’s Science-Health Science Library Rusty knows his way around books and movies. Rusty plans to be working as a teacher of conversational English in South Korea by August 2012. While there he also plans to finish the novel he still hasn’t finished and begin work on a feature length screenplay.
Twitter: @The_RustyFox
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Matt Holden grew up in West Lafayette, Indiana, as the oldest of four. Growing up he spent most of his time traveling across the Midwest playing competitive soccer. In high school, Matt and his family lived in Louisville, Kentucky for two years where he met new people and learned the city’s proper pronunciation. After moving back to West Lafayette his junior year, Matt joined his high school newspaper staff where he discovered the thrill of publishing his writing.
In the summer of 2011, Matt lived in New York City where he interned for Whitewall Magazine, a contemporary art and luxury lifestyle magazine published four times a year. Matt will graduate from Ball State University in May 2012 with a degree in magazine journalism. While attending Ball State, Matt was the editor-in-chief of Ball Bearings Magazine, Ball State’s student-run quarterly publication.
After graduation Matt hopes to attend graduate school or find work as a writer and a storyteller.
Twitter: @ThatMattHolden
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Jordan Martich writes fiction and non-fiction out of Indianapolis, Indiana, his hometown. He expects to graduate in July of 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in magazine journalism and a minor in creative writing. He published a short story in the Fall 2010 issue of blazeVOX.org and will publish a non-fiction piece with the Invictus Writers Group at the end of Spring.
He is currently working on his first novel, a comic book, a literary magazine, and plays music with a few bands. He blogs about thinking about writing at http://jordanmartich.wordpress.com, sometimes.
Twitter: @JordanMartich
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Ambria Martin lived in northern California until she was three. Then her family moved to Brownsburg, Indiana to live in the same house her mother grew up in. She first started writing after she saw the movie “Harriet the Spy” and the motivation catapulted when an editor from Marie Clare came to talk to her seventh grade class.
After three years of participating in high school yearbook and one year of being the editor, Ambria enrolled at Ball State University. She immediately decided on the journalism magazine track. A year later she added the public relations track as well as a digital media minor. In her spare time she blogs about vegetarian food here: http://textbooksandvegetables.blogspot.com and reminisces about her time spent doing mission work in the Bronx, NY and El Salvador.
After five years at Ball State, Ambria will be working on a college campus as a Catholic Missionary with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students starting in May 2012.
Twitter: @itsAmbiii
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Jennifer Perov grew up in Wheatfield, Indiana, a small town boasting cornfields and an annual Sandhill Crane festival. Growing up, she was either roaming the woods and sand hills at her cousin’s house, or reading and writing in her own bedroom.
Jennifer will graduate in May 2012 with a Creative Writing major and Digital Media minor.
After graduation, she’ll be spending a year at home, then plans to find her way out of Indiana.
Twitter: @Jen_Perov
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When Keshia Smith was a small child growing up in Indianapolis, IN, she often found herself writing “books” for fun and trying to get people to read them.
Today, she’s studying journalism and creative writing at Ball State University to learn how to improve the craft she fell in love with so many years ago.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading, hanging out with friends or family, attempting to cook various foods, or trying to make the world a brighter place.
Twitter: @Krsmith12
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