The 2025 election slate for WLT Board of Directors is as below. All nominees will officially begin their first term on January 1, 2025.
You can see the full list (including bios and photos) of current board members here.
Jean Synodinos is the proud 2021 Writers’ League of Texas Bess Whitehead Scott Fellow in Creative Writing for older emerging writers. Since 2020, her stories have appeared in The Normal School, Los Angeles Review, Everyday Fiction, and Orca: A Literary Journal. A graduate of Duke University, Jean has worked as a professional actor in New York City, a performing songwriter in Austin, and a painter. She is hard at work on her first novel, Rat Girl‚ a dystopian climate fiction/ghost story set in a permanently flooded New Orleans. Rat Girl was a finalist in the 2022 WLT Manuscript Contest. Jean lives with her partner and their peckish but beautiful mutt in Austin, TX. Find her at jeansynodinos.com or on Twitter/Instagram @jeansynodinos. Current first term expires December 31, 2025.
Amanda Churchill is a writer living in Texas. Her work has been featured in Hobart Pulp, Witness, River Styx, among others. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. Amanda is a Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Fellow. She attended the 2021 Community of Writers workshop in fiction as a James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship recipient. Churchill has also attended the Tin House Summer Conference, the One Story Summer Workshop, and StoryBoard Chicago. She was a Fall 2020 mentee in AWP’s Writer to Writer program. Her debut novel, The Turtle House, a work inspired by the life of her grandmother, a Japanese war bride, is forthcoming in early 2024 from Harper Books. Current first term expires December 31, 2025.
Stephanie N. Rodriguez is a writer and photographer in Austin, Texas. She holds a B.A. in English from Sam Houston State University, is a Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Fellow, and serves as a Programming Advisor for Austin’s Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Chapter. As a Little Free Library Steward, she loves providing her community with access to a diverse selection of literature. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys hiking and kayaking with her family, reading, and playing board games. You may also find her cleaning up local lakes and rivers, and helping wildlife in need. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6: Femme Fatales, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Blue Mesa Review, River Teeth, Southeastern Naturalist, and elsewhere. You may read her work at snrodriguezwrites.com, or follow her on Twitter at @nicole4thoughts. Current first term expires December 31, 2025.
Amanda Wenger (she/her) is a Houston-based writer with a background in critical care nursing. She is a former Writers’ League of Texas Fellow, a FORGE NYC Fellow, and the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. She has attended residencies at Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to work on her first novel, which was selected as a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest and received an honorable mention for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Worlds Grant. She is an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and has designed and facilitated writing workshops for health professionals as an artist in residence for the Medical Humanities program at Texas Children’s Hospital. Current first term expires December 31, 2025.
C. Prudence Arceneaux, a native Texan, teaches English and Creative Writing, and is the Department Chair of Creative Writing, at Austin Community College, in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Academy of American Poets’ Poem- A- Day, Limestone, New Texas, Hazmat Review, Texas Observer, Whiskey Island Magazine, African Voices and Inkwell. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry– DIRT (2018 Jean Pedrick Prize) and LIBERTY— and the full length collection PROPRIOCEPTION. Proposed term expires December 31, 2029.
