Windward Review Volume 19 (2021): Empathy and Entropy

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Cameron Adams is Leticia R. Bajuyo is an interdisciplinary artist who creates
currently a student at visual poems, drawings, sculptures, and site-responsive installations
that are inspired by objects that are byproducts
Indiana University-
Bloomington. of human ingenuity and privilege. A Filipinx-American artist,
from small, midwestern town on the border of Illinois
A sophomore,
double majoring
in Biochemistry and Kentucky, Bajuyo presently creates, lives, works, and
and Earth Science. teaches in Norman, Oklahoma. In 2022, Bajuyo joined the
faculty at The University of Oklahoma. Prior to this professorship
in Oklahoma, Bajuyo, served as an Associate Professor of Art – Sculpture at
TAMU-CC 2017-2022. In addition to teaching and creative scholarship, Bajuyo seeks
community and collaboration by participating in artist collectives such as Land Report
and serving on the Boards of Directors for the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance
and Public Art Dialogue.
Jacob R. Benavides
is a recently graduated
Senior at Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi
studying English Literary
Studies with minors
in Women, Gender and
Sexuality Studies and
Jacobus Marthinus Barnard is a South African immigrant
who journeyed across the world for a better life.
He now finds success as a second-year Honors student
at Indiana University, majoring in Biology and minoring
in Chemistry and Medical Sciences, with the goal of
becoming a doctor. Beyond the physical study of life,
Jacobus finds deep enjoyment in crafting works that
capture the brilliance and beauty of a human moment.
Studio Art. His writing focuses on exploring material and immaterial feelings through
the lens of an early 20 something year old, all the certain uncertainty included.
He is attentive to themes of Queer identity, love, mental health, familial identity,
and the relation of bodies both physical and imaginary within the ever-shifting
landscape of existence in South Texas. Jacob has previously been published in the
Windward Review, Texas Poetry Assignment and in the Notes app on his phone.
He received a HAAS writing award for creative writing in 2020 and is currently
working on a collection of poetry entitled The Melting of Mars (and other bodies).
Alan Berecka is the author of five Jimena Burnett writes poems and short
full collections and three chapbooks. stories, rides horses, plays tennis, and
His latest A Living is not a Life: A teaches in the First-Year Learning Communities
Program as a professor of Semi-
Working Title was published by Black
Spruce Press (Brooklyn,NY) late in nar at TAMUCC. She has an MA in English
2021. The three time Pushcart nominee’s
work has appeared in such attended various creative writing work-
from Texas A&M - Corpus Christi and has
places as The American Literary shops, such as the Summer Writing Festival
and the International Writing Program
Review, The Concho River Review,
The Christian Century, and several
issues of the Windward Review. shop with Brett Anthony Johnston, an all-
with the University of Iowa, a fiction work-
In 2017 Berecka was named as the genre workshop on the Catalog presented
first poet laureate of Corpus Christi
and served in that rule until 2019. and others. She is an alumna of the Coast-
by the Writer’s Studio of Corpus Christi,
al Bend Writing Project Summer Institute.
Her academic, creative, familial, tennis, and horsey endeavors keep her busy. She
has two children, two cats, two horses, one dog, and one husband. She likes to think
of herself as a lifelong learner and a lover of words, creativity, and the great outdoors!