Lauren Tedford is an apprentice at the Nook Farm Writing Collaborative who is on the layout team for Journey 75. She has been involved in Rockville High School’s creative writing program for three years, as well as an advisor for the RHS writing center. Lauren has had three poems recognized in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition and is platinum published in the Connecticut Student Writer Magazine. She recently was a part of an ekphrastic exhibit and reading at Arts Center East in Vernon, CT.