Current PubLab Fellows
Carrington Kinslow is a current MA student and composition instructor for the University of Louisville, after graduating with her BA in English Literature in 2024 from the same institution. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, she served as a Student Editor for UofL’s Miracle Monocle. Recently, she served as a Graduate Editor of Poetry for Miracle Monocle, and now works as a PubLab Fellow for their upcoming Anthology, Tales That Survived the Fire. Her current research seeks to trace the legend of “Saint George and the Dragon” throughout its various retellings in search of the legend’s origins. Carrington hopes to pursue a PhD in English Literature after the completion of her MA.
Brenna Julian is a senior studying English Literature at the University of Louisville. She is a senior editor of Miracle Monocle, the co-editor-in-chief of The White Squirrel, and is currently at work as a PubLab fellow on the anthology, Tales That Survived the Fire.
Emma Sofianos is currently earning her MA in English at the University of Louisville. She works as an Assistant Director at the University Writing Center and is also a PubLab Fellow for the literary journal, Miracle Monocle. Her eventual goal is to join the publishing industry after graduation. Her research interests include current publishing issues, feminist and publics-focused rhetorics, and writing center studies.
Joe Thomas is a graduate student and emerging writer in his second year at the University of Louisville, studying Creative Writing on the English MA track. He served as a Graduate Editor of prose for Miracle Monocle in Spring of 2026, and now works as a PubLab Fellow on the anthology project, Tales That Survived the Fire. His fiction has appeared in the Arkansas Review, Equinox, Nebo: A Literary Journal, and is forthcoming in Third Coast. Interviews he’s conducted have appeared online with The Laurel Review and Necessary Fiction. He has a Bachelor’s degree in English – Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and plans to pursue an MFA in fiction.
Victoria Tapia is a senior studying Creative Writing at the University of Louisville. She is a senior editor of Miracle Monocle and is currently at work as a PubLab fellow on the anthology, Tales That Survived the Fire.
