Ms. Durham lives in Lebanon, TN. She has taught primarily Spanish and English in North Dakota and Lebanon, Watertown High School, and Friendship Chrisitan School in Wilson County, TN.  She has additional experience in serving as a therapeutic recreation specialist, and as a director and producer for theatre productions. She is retired from the Wilson County School System.

Ms. Durham spends her free time with her large and wonderful family.

Darby Lewis is a ceramic artist born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She chose to get her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics at the Appalachian Center for Craft, at Tennessee Technological University’s art campus. She graduated December 2020. Since graduating she is working on continuing her thesis body of work and focusing on showing her sculptures in galleries. As of 2023, she is the current Adjunct Instructor of Clay at Cumberland University.

Ashley Quinn earned a B.A. in Secondary English education and a B.A. in Secondary mathematics education from Ferris State University in 2017. After teaching High School English at Ionia High School for one year, she decided to continue her education. Quinn received an M.A. degree in English from Grand Valley State University in 2020.

Upon entering the English Ph.D. program at Middle Tennessee State University in 2020, Quinn began teaching first year composition as a graduate assistant. She has since taught ENGL 1010: Expository Writing and ENGL 1020: Research & Argumentative Writing. Additionally, Quinn has guest lectured in film and literature courses at MTSU. 

Quinn’s Ph.D. research has centered around the reclamation of female voices within the horror film genre. However, her dissertation will explore the filmography of Mike Flanagan through a collaborative auterist lens. Outside of the classroom, Quinn is devoted to spending time with her partner and cats (Billy & Kiki). 

Lacie Carpenter is an award-winning musician and hit songwriter and is known as a dynamic music performer, author, and scholar.

Lacie actively writes and co-writes with other songwriters and authors.  She spends a lot of time mentoring others to fulfill their highest potential, performing with companies that utilize her musical and theatrical abilities. She speaks internationally on global access to music education, hit songwriting, ethnomusicology, and music psychology in Chengdu, China at the Music Cities Convention and National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Conventions 2019, 2020, and 2022.

Lacie is a psychology and music professor at three colleges within the Nashville area. She recently performed at the Grand Ole Opry.