Susannah Baker

Susannah Baker
Editorial Staff

(she/her/hers)

Susannah is a fourth year majoring in English and minoring in History and ASL and Deaf Culture. She is passionate about storytelling, library and information science, and Webkinz. Thursday nights, you can catch her enjoying heated debates and engrossing literary presentations at the Washington Society. Susannah enjoys reading, attending the UVA ASL signing lunches, and telling anyone who will listen about her time working as a Summer camp counselor. 

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ink pot and feather pen

When I was in first grade, I wished for the first time to be a writer. I pictured holding a book and running my finger over my name in embossed text on the cover of a pristine book jacket.

cracked mirror

One of me sways to music, stays smiling

Reaches my arms up to fractured ceilings

white roses, two pens, a journal and a cup of coffee on a light green background.

Summer 2022 was easily one of the best times of my life: weeks spent in the sun and the outdoors, with friends, and a great sense of purpose working for the first time at my childhood summer camp.

bodies floating across the page with a wavelength behind them

Every sound wave is a pattern. 

Every sound wave has its own frequency, a wavelength recreated over and over again.