Greg is the Assistant Director of the Mississippi State University Writing Center. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in English at Mississippi State University. He has worked with the writing center at Mississippi state in various positions from 2015. His first MSWCA conference was 2016 TutorCon “A Writing Center State of Mind.” He is a member of the College Language Association and the International Writing Center Association. Disability studies and using digital means to enhance writing centers are two of his current academic interests. He spends more of his time with his dogs, reading, writing and listing to music.

Jeanine is the director of the University of Mississippi – DeSoto regional campus writing center. She received her doctorate in Higher Education in May 2020 from the University of Mississippi. She has been working with writing centers for 15 years. She received her undergraduate degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing  and poetry from Texas State University and her masters in English Secondary Education from Delta State University. Using her creative writing skills, she helps students find joy and ultimately confidence in their writing. She is a member the of the Mississippi Writing Project, National Writing Project, International Writing Center Association, and Southeastern Writing Center Association. She currently serves as chair for the Mississippi Writing Center Association. She has also presented at these conferences with fellow colleagues. Her interests are cooking, reading, painting, writing, visiting new places, and going out with friends.

Tatiana was interested in writing centers even before she knew they existed–when even the idea of teaching academic writing in her native Russia was novel. Living in Jackson since 2006, she has been a tutor and now coordinator in the Richard Wright Center for Writing, Rhetoric, and Research at Jackson State University. Her fascination with writing centers does not detract from her love of reading, traveling, experimenting in the kitchen and the garden, and watching movies set in Nordic landscapes.

DeShanna is the Writing Center Coordinator at Hinds Community College-Utica Campus. Although the center is fairly new, DeShanna and her team have made great strides to transition their center into a cultivated space.  With the implementation of the peer tutoring model introduced by Hinds Community Colleges’ district director, DeShanna created a Design Thinking Model that aids in collaboratively working with English instructors on her campus to meet the needs of all students that are iserved.  As someone who has spent most of their life writing as a hobby, DeShanna is passionate about teaching the basics of writing to both traditional and non-traditional students.  DeShanna received her BS from Jackson State University and later her MS from Belhaven University. 

Advisory Members

Loree is the Director of the Mississippi State University Writing Center and has been part of the writing center community since 2013. While teaching and directing take up a lot of her time, she makes time to enjoy the simple things in life: binge watching shows on Netflix and HBO Max, exploring new foods, organizing anything and everything, going for evening walks, loving on her animals (2 dogs & 1 cat), and spending time with her wife in their Starkville home.

Hailey Reeder, a Pelahatchie, MS native, is a first-year graduate student in the English Department from Mississippi State University. She completed her undergraduate degree in English at MSU in May of 2023 and has worked in MSU’s Writing Center as a consultant since 2020. Hailey has previously presented at MSWCA on “Beyond Inaccurate Expectations: How Mississippi State University’s Writing Center Reestablishes its Perception Through Outreach” and her current academic interests are examining Southern Gothic literature. In her free time, Hailey enjoys cooking and catching up on reality T.V. shows.

Ciera Higginbotham currently teaches composition and creative writing at Mississippi State University and is a consultant at the MSU Writing Center. She received her MFA in Poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020, after previously graduating with her MA (’17) and BA (’15) in English from MSU. When she’s not marveling at her cat, Grip, she can usually be found marveling at, and falling in love with, language.

I’m Colburn Jones, but a lot of people call me Cole, and a lot of phones autocorrect me to Coke. I’m a senior at Mississippi College, with a major in English Writing and minors in English Literature, Graphic Design, and Applied Humanities. I’m a tutor in our Writing Center as well as our Outreach Specialist. I’m the President of one of our on-campus men’s service clubs, and I’m pursuing my undergraduate thesis through research on Disco Elysium. I’m hoping to continue my education through programs specializing in English, ideally English Writing or specifically writing for video games. Most importantly, I’m a big movie fan, and I have 3 dogs!

Would you like to join the board?

We are looking to fill open seats for the position of Secretary. The Nomination Committee is accepting nominations and self-nominations now.

All nominees must be members of MSWCA and will be required to submit a 300-500 word personal statement outlining their interest in the position, their qualifications, and their experience with Writing Centers within the state.

All nominations should be sent to the Nomination Committee chair, Greg Marcus, at gvm16@msstate.edu

Please feel free to contact the Nomination Committee Chair, Greg Marcus (gvm16@msstate.edu), with any questions.