About Us
Our Mission
We serve all writers at Oklahoma State University and in the surrounding community through collaborative
writing consultations, a variety of writing-focused programs and partnerships, as well as community engagement projects. Our staff and tutors are committed to the land-grant mission, which emphasizes instruction, research and
outreach to foster agency and literacy for all people.
"Jonesy" Bryan L. Jones
Interim Director
Bryan “jonesy” Jones holds a PhD in Writing Studies with an emphasis in New Media.
He teaches a Writing Center Pedagogy course and heads the Writing Center, where he
works with a diverse group of talented tutors and assistant directors to help make
writing accessible for everyone who visits the Center. As a tutor, jonesy focuses
on meeting students where they are and demystifying the process of producing writing,
helping students focus on the audience and the rhetorical moves writers have available
to them in any given context. When he is not teaching, jonesy studies the ways in
which digital activists compose reality through the deployment of digital tools and
rhetorical strategies. He is currently studying the intersection of organized fandoms
and hate groups, particularly the connections between #GamerGate and Elon Musk. jonesy
is also a music critic, you can read his reviews and opinions of punk rock on punknews.org.
"AP" A. Poythress
Assistant Director
A. Poythress (they/them) is currently enrolled in Oklahoma State University’s PhD
program for creative writing and received their MFA from Columbia College Chicago.
They've been published in The Rumpus, The Lit Pub, Write City Magazine, AWP Writer’s
Notebook, The New Southern Fugitives, was a semi-finalist in the 2022 St. Lawrence
Book Award, a finalist for the 2022 Iron Horse First Book Prize, and semi-finalist
for the 2023 University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize. As a non-binary
lesbian, they primarily write surreal horror and fantasy.
Courtney McEunn
Assistant Director
Courtney McEunn is an MFA candidate at Oklahoma State studying Creative Writing with
an emphasis in fiction. Her work has been published in Red Rock Review, The Dead Mule
School of Southern Literature, 10x10 Flash Fiction Stories, MOONLIGHTING by Lit Pub,
and others. In addition to being an AD at the OSU Writing Center, Courtney also works
as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the English department. She loves traveling,
reading, writing, game nights with friends, and spending time with her cat daughter.
J. Drake
Assistant Director
Drake (they/him) is currently enrolled in the English PhD program at Oklahoma State
University where their focus areas flux between poetry, gender & women’s studies,
and sexuality studies. Their Best of the Net losing (but nominated) poetry appears
in Full House Literary, Prime Number Magazine, Montana Mouthful, and elsewhere. Drake’s
research areas primarily focus on queer poetics, queer and feminist theories, and
gender violence. Their work within the Writing Center focuses on digital communication, fostering professional
development, and promoting outreach into digital landscapes and faraway places. While
not on campus or presenting essays about queer poetry and social movements, you can
find Drake exploring another country, hosting a board game night, or playing Dungeons
& Dragons with friends.
Victor Adedayo
Assistant Director
Victor Adedayo is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics with experience teaching composition
and working with multilingual students. His research applies corpus linguistics to
examine social issues in higher education, media, and technology. He is passionate
about linguistic diversity and encourages students to embrace their unique language
backgrounds and varieties. Outside of academia, he enjoys watching soccer and playing
video games.
Toni Purnell
Assistant Director
Toni is a Bachelor's student studying film and English; Toni is involved with many
different projects and organizations on and off campus.
Luka Brave
Assistant Director
Luka Brave is a master’s student in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program at Oklahoma
State University. His research focuses include educational and therapeutic applications
for games, student agency, and disability studies. In the classroom, Luka brings a
multimodal spin to Composition I and Advanced Composition. As a student and AD, Luka
is working on his thesis about therapeutically applied tabletop role-playing games,
and is also developing games for use in composition education such as Writing Center
tutoring sessions.