Meet Our Staff

Editor: Martin Bargo (mbargo@alaskapacific.edu)

Martin is a Creative and Professional Writing major from Argentina, but has spent much of his life wandering the world and making a home anywhere from Norway to New Zealand, Costa Rica to (finally) Alaska. On top of contributing to Turnagain Currents, his writing has been published in La Voz de Guanacaste as the area’s citizen reporter and Anchorage Press. He’s a rising pentalingual nerd who has owned his own tattoo studio and loves to ride his bicycle, watch sumo, and drink mates.

Assistant Editor: Mara Lorch (mlorch2024@alaskapacific.edu)

Mara is a Montanan rooting into the Alaskan landscape: the one that kept luring her back season after season. She delights in studying the living world’s intricacies through marine and environmental sciences, wandering river valleys, and eating fresh foods that the rich lands near her home in Palmer provide. Her curiosity and appreciation for the world keeps her pen returning to the page.

Faculty Advisor: David Onofrychuk (donofrychuk@alaskapacific.edu)

Dave grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, and moved to Alaska in 2005. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Composition at APU. His fiction has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Stone Boat Journal, and on Blindman Brewing Session Series beer cans. He lives in Anchorage with his wife and two boys.