KETTLE POND STAFF
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JACLYN CLARK
Jaclyn is a multimedia craftsman, lover, and curator based in Philadelphia.
Jaclyn joins Kettle Pond staff in 2026, following a recent two month residency in green woodworking at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.
A. HARDING
A. Harding currently teaches in the English Department at an independent school in Westchester County, New York. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell University, specializing in 20th Century Fiction & Architecture. She previously worked for the Colgate Writers' Conference for nine years.
A. is founding staff & Deputy Director at Kettle Pond.
GRETA HOVLAND
Greta Hovland has over twenty years of experience in event management, customer service, and the food & beverage industry. She has served as Alumni & Events Manager at North Country School, Food & Beverage Operations Manager at High Peaks Resort, and Sales Manager at the Lake Placid Lodge, among others. Greta served as Project Manager as well as General Manager for Sodexo at Paul Smith’s College until 2023, where she oversaw events calendars, dining operations, and an extensive dining hall renovation. Her hobbies include jam- and pickle-making, for which is a legend in multiple states. She lives in Bloomingdale, New York.
Greta is Operations Manager & local oracle at Kettle Pond.
ANDY TRAN
Andy Tran is a multi-genre writer born in Piscataway, New Jersey and raised in the DMV. He has received residencies and fellowships from Barrelhouse, The Inner Loop, and Kettle Pond Writers’ conference. He used to be a co-host on the Textual Healing Podcast with Mallory Smart. He earned runner-up at the DVAN-TTUP Memoir Contest. He makes Spotify playlists religiously. In his spare time, he spins on his decks. He is currently working on a novel called Tense. Some of his work experience includes: camp counselor/tennis teacher at a Summer Camp, where he won Camp Counselor of the week for three weeks in a row, new and used car salesman at a dealership, and writing consultant at American University’s Writing Center.
Andy joined Kettle Pond staff in 2023. His selected published writing can be found here.
VIRGINIA ZECH
Before founding Kettle Pond, Virginia worked for the Colgate Writers’ Conference for ten years. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana. Her resume outside the literary world includes work at a little league snack bar, The Onion in the MySpace era, reading mail for the ACLU, pro ski patrol at a Class A resort, weighing trucks, landscaping, and bartending, among others.
She looks forward to reading your work.
STAFF ALUMS
JACK BACHMANN
Jack Bachmann lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared in ÖMËGÄ, micro /MACRO, and Tagvverk among other places, including two chapbooks, Dayglo and Soft Static Crushes.
Jack was founding staff at Kettle Pond.
KIM BELL
Kim Bell is a native of the South Shore of Massachusetts who currently lives, works, and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Montana, where she taught writing and was the Nonfiction Editor at CutBank. Previously, Kim wrote about beer for The Lowlands Group in Milwaukee, and ran classes on all things beer-related: from pairings, to how the magic of fermentation led to the first human civilizations. She has been writing for Looper.com since the summer of 2021 and is at work on a collection of illustrated essays that explore grief, mortality, living with cancer — and representations of the same in film & television — through a comedic lens.
Kim is founding staff at Kettle Pond & is currently out of the office.
WILL GEORGES
Will Georges is the author of It’s You I Like, published posthumously by a group of writers affiliated with the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, where he was an MFA candidate in poetry. His interests included, "surrealism and millennial drama". He was a member of the inaugural Kettle Pond staff, where he will always be greatly missed.
Will was founding staff at Kettle Pond.
KATIE RICE
Katie Rice is a writer living in Austin, Texas. She has an MFA from the University of Virginia. You can find her writing in Bon Appetit, Food52, and on her website.
Katie was founding staff at Kettle Pond.
NICOLE ROCHÉ
Nicole Roché is a writer, reporter, and self-archivist currently based in northern New York. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Kansas, where she earned her BA in journalism and an MA in English Literature/Creative Writing, and at the University of Montana, where she earned her MFA in Fiction in 2017, and worked as fiction editor and online managing editor for CutBank. She teaches classes on storytelling and identity at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she is also a writer & editor for Weave News.