Katherine Rye Jewell

Katherine Rye Jewell is a historian and a professor at Fitchburg State University who writes about the intersection of business, politics, and culture. 

Her second book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio is available now.

Glenis Redmond

City of Greenville Poet Laureate Glenis Redmond is a renowned performance poet, founder of the Greenville Poetry Slam and former poet-in-residence for the Peace Center for the Performing Arts. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, is a Cave Canem alumni and has spent almost three decades touring the country as a poet and teaching artist. In 2020, Glenis received the Governor’s Award for the Arts, the highest honor the state of South Carolina gives in the arts, and in April, she was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, which recognizes the state’s most distinguished writers and their influence on our cultural heritage. 

Anna Castro Spratt

Anna Castro Spratt moved to Greenville from Brazil, and is fluent in both English and Portuguese. Miss Spratt has received numerous awards, including a National Gold Medal, three Gold Keys, three Silver Keys, Honorable Mention in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards (2023), and the South Carolina Junior Scholar Award of Merit (2021). As the City of Greenville’s Youth Poet Laureate, Miss Spratt hopes to inspire other young people to express themselves through poetry and to advocate for the issues that matter to them.