Creator and Director
Julia Paganelli Marín (she/they) is the Creator and Director of Bee Balm Arkansas, a community writing experience begun in October 2022 with opportunities to listen, write, and share within and beyond Northwest Arkansas. Julia has been teaching and designing curriculum for more than a decade for adult, college-level, and high school learners and has published her research and presented at academic conferences about community writing.
Her role in the Bee Balm community is program and community building; grant writing and development; and workshop instruction. She is the host and editor of the show Bee Balm Presents, a collaboration with KUAF National Public Radio in Fayetteville.
Julia holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. Her publications include her chapbook, Blush Less, as well as individual poems. Her editorial work has included reading and selection of work for The Arkansas International and Up North Lit.
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Schuyler Brooks
REVISION NIGHT CO-HOST
Schuyler is a MFA student at the University of Arkansas. They are a dedicated poet, a multimedia maker, and a top tier booty shaker. They have been published in Bare Back Magazine, Isele Magazine’s Queer Joy Quarterly, 3Elements Review, and other publications.
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Arden Malloy
DRAFTING NIGHT CO-HOST
Arden Malloy (any pronouns) is a poet currently based in Northwest Arkansas. Motifs in their work include (but are not limited to): queer identity, desire, southernness, Being Online, and growing up at the intersection of these things. Work from Arden can be found in The Temptation Salon, Splashland Magazine, and Smacked Zine, among others. She holds a B.A in English from the University of Arkansas, and cohosts Bee Balm Arkansas' monthly Drafting Night.
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Cassie Sands
REVISION NIGHT CO-HOST
Cassie is a writer, Aerospace Engineer, Planetary Scientist, and survivor of childhood trauma based in NWA. Through their work, Cassie shares their journey healing from Complex PTSD and explores our human connection with Earth and the Cosmos. They have been featured on the Traumatized Motherfuckers and Bee Balm Presents podcasts, in the short story collection “In Flight” from Free Spirit publishing, the blog for the CPTSD foundation, and are the author of Cosmic Transmissions on Substack.
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Haylee Shull
DRAFTING NIGHT CO-HOST
Haylee Shull is a writer and artist from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She has two cats and owns a small business with her sister.