Current Staff

J Evan Parks

Executive Director

J Evan Parks (he/him) is a writer and creative living in Austin, TX, where he works as the Executive Director of the Writers’ League of Texas. He is a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he writes for various tabletop role-playing games, with both officially published content as well as independently published supplements. His game, Ritual Deck, was published by Plus One Exp in November 2025.

Sarah Renee Beach

Program Director

Sarah Renee Beach is an Austin-based poet and writer originally from Southeast Texas. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and is an alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her poetry chapbook Impact won Sundress Publications’ 2022 Chapbook Contest, and her nonfiction can be found in The Sewanee Review and, later this year, in the Indiana Review. Read more of her writing at sarahreneebeach.com.

Lore Arnold

Manager, Program & Member Services

Bri Landry

Office Coordinator

Vasundhara Jayender

Program Intern

Vasundhara Jayender (she/her) is a junior English and International Relations & Global Studies double major with a certificate in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Untold (2022), an anthology of fractured fairy tales, and she writes for her blog and Substack. In her free time, she loves reading, baking, and spending time with her friends.

Katherine Manz

Program Intern

Katie Manz is an English and History major at the University of Texas at Austin with certificates in Business Spanish and Criminal Law, Justice, and Inequality. She writes everything and everywhere. If you happen upon her in public, she’s likely writing a piece for the Texas Undergraduate Law Journal or SPARK Magazine while watching baseball.

Samantha Natividad

Social Media & Marketing Intern

Samantha Natividad is a senior Journalism major with a minor in Global Communications at the University of Texas at Austin. She is passionate about studying data journalism, international reporting, and cultural storytelling. Her biggest dream is to travel the world and open her own bookstore. On her days off, she enjoys cooking Filipino food, eating out, and game nights with her friends. Her favorite book is The Love of Her Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood.