Becky Bruning serves as a writing consultant and social media coordinator for the Graduate Writing Center. She is currently a master's student in Communications Studies at Texas Tech University. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2002 where she received a bachelor's degree in Linguistics. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, learning languages, drinking tea, and spending time with her family.

Alex Claman received a BA in Classical Studies with minors in Archaeology and Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Carleton College, and is working concurrently on an MA in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and an MS in Geography with a focus on GIS. They have fieldwork experience in both Greece and Italy, with research interests including archaeological and geographic theory, fieldwork methodology, and Ancient Mediterranean influences on speculative fiction. Their thesis examines the persistence of buried landscape forms. PhD applications are in progress.

Kelsey Forkner is in her second year of the master's in art education program at Texas Tech. She has a previous master's degree in English from Illinois State University. She has worked in writing centers since 2010, and she particularly enjoys helping students with cover letters and scholarship essays. 

Charity Pihlaja is in her third year as a tutor with the Undergraduate Writing Center. She earned bachelor's degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication as well as English from New Mexico State University. Currently she is working on a Master's in Writing from the University of North Alabama. She enjoys reading, taking walks, and losing in Mario Kart tournaments with her family.

After using the University Writing Center services for two years as a student, María Rodríguez joined the Undergraduate Writing Center in 2018 as a writing tutor. Since then, she has worked with a wide variety of students with different academic areas of study and assignments that have widened her view of the world and improved her tutoring ability to make her more adaptable to students' diverse needs. María serves the Hispanic community as a native Spanish speaker. She has also facilitated writing groups. María graduated from Texas Tech in 2018 with dual degrees in Music and Spanish, and she is pursuing a master's in musicology at Tech. In her free time, she plays the violin in a mariachi band, the TTU Celtic Ensemble, the Big Spring Orchestra, and the Lubbock Civic Orchestra.

Claire has been with the Undergraduate Writing Center for three years as a tutor and is currently serving as the graduate coordinator for both the UWC and the GWC. Graduating from Texas Tech in 2019, Claire received her Bachelor of Arts in English. She is currently working on a master's degree in technical communication as well as a graduate certificate in communication for center directors. Her research interests include writing centers and sonic rhetorics.

Susan Stone-Lawrence (SS-L) has worked as a writing consultant in the GWC since January 2017. A doctoral candidate in Theatre Arts, earning the Interdisciplinary PhD in Fine Arts with emphases in History/Theory/Criticism and Playwriting, SS-L primarily focuses her/their research and creativity on subjects within and around Black Aesthetics, The Black Arts Movement (particularly focusing on leading figure Amiri Baraka), and lynching. The Black Theatre Network, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, and Routledge have published her/their writing.

Miranda (she/her/hers) is a senior at Texas Tech University and a fourth-semester consultant at the Texas Tech Undergraduate Writing Center. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Sciences and Humanities with minors in Environmental Studies, Community and Urban Studies, and Political Science. Miranda plans to attend graduate school in Sustainable Urban Planning in the fall. In addition to her work at the writing center, Miranda is a Peer Educator at the Texas Tech RISE office and a substitute teacher for Lubbock ISD. In her free time, Miranda enjoys listening to podcasts, practicing aerial silks, and watching classic movies.