Trevor Good
Editor-in-Chief
Trevor Good is a Junior and Literature major from Arlington, Virginia. He can often be found reading, playing chess, arguing about politics, or at the bowling alley. His favorite books are Paradise Lost, Anna Karenina, and anything written by Kurt Vonnegut. Trevor is not sure what he wants to do when he graduates; he just hopes it won't be boring.
Jacqueline Annis-Levings
Content and Layout Editor
Jacqueline is a junior English major hailing from Eastern Washington, land of Bigfoot and real mountains. When she's not is not solving all of campus' IT problems, teaching at Shall We Dance, or telling Eden Troupe what to do, she can be found doing homework. In her occasional spare time, she reads sci-fi and philosophy. She hopes to use her degree to write professionally in some capacity.
Will Atchley
Content Editor
Will was raised in the valley of East Tennessee. From a young age, he enjoyed reading the likes of T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Jonathan Edwards, leading him to study English in the hopes of attending seminary. Currently in his senior year, Will enjoys playing guitar, writing, and taking walks.
Cade Crockett
Content Editor
Literary superstars from Mark Twain to T.S. Eliot were born in Missouri, so Cade Crockett decided to be born there too. He has loved books his whole life; some of his earliest memories are listening to stories read by Dad and Mom. His favorite authors include but are not limited to Kate DiCamillo, Homer, Dr. Seuss, Flannery O'Conner, and Robert Frost. When he is not reading a book, he enjoys square dance calling, playing piano, laughing, and sometimes all at the same time even though it is hard. He is proud to be the only Economics & Business Analytics major on the Westmarch team.
Aidan Piercey was born and raised a New Hampshire Yankee but now calls Huntsville, Alabama home. Afraid of getting stuck behind a computer in the “rocket city,” Aidan made his way back north to PHC to study history. His favorite pastimes include basketball, working out, and studying the Anglo-Saxons. Some of his favorite authors are Dostoevsky, Wendell Berry, and Robert Frost. Currently a junior History major, Aidan plans to pursue graduate studies in Medieval history in hopes of teaching someday.
Aidan Piercey
Content Editor
Rachel Hankinson
Faculty Advisor
Rachel Hankinson decided, sitting on a 90’s blue couch while her mother read The Boxcar Children aloud, that she was going to become an author. She checked in with her Father about it – yep, that was the plan, alright. Good to get that figured out. Now just all the little, nitty-gritty things in-between five years old and authorhood.
The nitty-gritty things ended up being a bit more than she anticipated, but there were always books. Books every day, every moment possible.
Fast forward fourteen years and twenty-six-hundred books later: Hankinson began freshman year at Patrick Henry College, astounded that everyone wasn’t dying to take Creative Writing with Dr. Grewell. As the years rolled by, she came to realize that each student, without fail, had a spark of creativity within them; most of them just weren’t willing to talk about it, let alone see it themselves. When COVID-19 struck, Hankinson was thrust back into life at home and isolation led to inspiration. She realized that the floods of creativity at PHC just need someone to break down the scholarly, fear-caulked dam. Westmarch was Hankinson’s personal pickax.
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The parched land of PHC started to soak in the creative waters, but just as soon as grass began to grow, Hankinson found herself leaving. Graduation came and went, along with a job at Barnes and Noble, then the Classic Learning Test editing and writing exams, and a master’s degree in Creative Writing for Children.
Now, she’s back at Patrick Henry, and if you thought her days working at that dam were over, you haven’t seen nothing yet. Patrick Henry College gave her the greatest honor imaginable by making Westmarch into a class and asking her to come back and teach it.
You can find Hankinson head-down in her office, plotting for the English major world takeover, working on her middle-grade fantasy novel, The Lantern, or at home, baking muffins for her students. She’s overjoyed to be back as the faculty leader of Westmarch and is now earning a second master’s degree so she can teach even more English classes. Next stop: authorhood and world domination for PHC English majors!