Staff
Avery Mcilquham
Managing Editor | SENIOR
Avery McIlquham is a double major in Legal Studies and Criminal Justice with a minor in English. She is an officer of Law Club as well as a member of Bethany Lutheran College’s Varsity Mocktrial team. She loves to dabble in poetry and CNF when given the chance. Most of all she is an avid reader who just likes to curl up with a good book and hot cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Avery has begun applying to Law School in hopes that next year she will get to further her education. She is most excited to spend her senior year as Inkwell’s managing editor helping to put together a new edition of Inkwell’s print magazine as well as getting to read the many submissions they will get this year.
Maddy Fibieger
Design Editor | sENIOR
Madalynn Fibieger, who typically goes by Maddy, is a Psychology major with a minor in Communication Disorders and Sciences (CDIS). In December 2025, she will earn her American Sign Language Certificate from MSU. At Bethany, Maddy is a Senior and is involved in many extracurricular activities, which include serving as the S.T.O.R.M. (Serving Through Outreach, Relief, and Missions) Public Relations Officer, Psych Club Director of Activities, a tutor in the Writing Center, and the Design Editor of Inkwell for her second year. Essentially, she is the one to create the physical print of Inkwell (with the help of other staff members, of course!). After her education at Bethany, Maddy plans on pursuing a Master’s Degree in Addiction Counseling.
When she is not in class or has the very rare chance of not having homework, you can find Maddy either around campus, with friends or her husband, or working an almost full-time job off-campus. In her slight spaces of time where she can catch a breath, Maddy enjoys writing poetry, creating art through different avenues and techniques, or watching a multitude of media. Although Maddy is sad for her last year at Bethany, she is excited for what this year will bring and working with Inkwell!
Lydia Palmquist
Website Editor | Junior
Lydia is an English major with a multimedia-writing emphasis. During her time at Bethany, she has dabbled in activities such as choir, theater, and speech. Currently, she is the Copy Editor for The Scroll and is an active leader of DECA. Lydia can be found all over campus- participating in clubs and activities, fulfilling various work-study commitments, or sitting in a tree with a good book. Along with reading, Lydia enjoys hiking, bird watching, catching creatures, and spending time with friends and family. Lydia is thrilled to start her second year with Inkwell as the new Website Editor. She is looking forward to reading pieces and is excited to help share them with the others.
Bridget mcilquham
General Staff | Sophomore
Bridget is a sophomore English major with a minor in multimedia writing. She is from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and is involved in the Law Club, Spanish Club, Psych Club, and the BLC Studios Maverick Hockey Broadcast team. She is also a mentor for International students here at Bethany. When Bridget isn’t in class or spending time on her various extracurricular activities, you can find her enjoying a good book or writing. She also enjoys spending time in the library, either doing homework or relaxing, as well as spending quality time with her family and friends.
Renee geving
General Staff | Senior
Renee Geving is a senior with a major in Music and a minor in English with an emphasis in Multimedia writing. She is involved in every ensemble, she started a pep band, she works in the writing center, she stage manages and acts in theater productions, she is the Risen Savior band director, she teaches private lessons, she’s a trumpet and conducting student, she’s a student Senate member, and she loves being involved. She loves all things music, nature, and stories. She loves working with people and reading the creativity that they bring to the table. This year will be exciting to see all that trickles to inkwell.
Norah Kratz
General Staff |Junior
Norah Kratz is a double major in Communication and Studio Arts, with a minor in English. She does everything on campus that interests her, which includes Inkwell, Photojournalism, the Scroll, Art Service, tutoring in the Writing Center, STD, and much more. She loves drawing and painting and really art of any kind, as well as running, walking, reading, writing, roller skating, thrifting, and drinking iced coffee that’s way too sweet. She is going to be Inkwell-adjacent this year, since she’ll be on a Study abroad second semester, and it’s all she thinks about.
NATHANAEL sTOTTLEMYER
General Staff | Sophomore
Nathanael K. Stottlemyer is enrolled in Bethany’s Communication Arts & Literature program (pretty much an English & Education double major). He is in his second year of college but his first year at Bethany. When he isn’t doing homework, he can usually be found up to all sorts of mischief in the library. Usually not writing, even though he really ought to.
Lars Johnson
faculty Advisor
Lars Johnson is a Professor of English at Bethany Lutheran College. In his spare time he collects well-wrought urns, which he especially likes to smash, break into a thousand, thousand shards, then reconfigure the pieces into . . . a globed fruit, an old medallion, or something useful like hands that can grasp, eyes / that can dilate / hair that can rise. He believes, sometimes desperately, that lit mags ought to be (like a poem) well-wrought, shining shards that gleam and sing beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
P.S. He would like to thank Cleanth Brooks, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, and John Keats for helping him with his bio.