BROOKE MACDONALD
SCIENCE FICTION WRITER
Brooke is a science-fiction writer, an editor, and an MFA in Creative Writing candidate at the University of Central Arkansas where she graduated with degrees in both creative writing and psychology. When she's not working on her debut sci-fi novel, you'll find her writing speculative flash and short stories, reading, or working on her Substack publication, Quasars & Queries. Her work appears in the Oxford American, Hunger Mountain Review, NUNUM, The Phoenix, and the Vortex.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Science FictionEditorialCopywritingSocial Media MarketingFlash FictionShort StoriesHybrid Works
TRAINING LOG
PHASE 1 // UNDERGRADUATE
University of Central Arkansas
2022 - 2025
> BA Creative Writing
> BS Psychology
> Magna Cum Laude
PHASE 2 // GRADUATE
University of Central Arkansas
2025 - 2027
> MFA Creative Writing
> Managing Editor, Arkana
> IN PROGRESS
ACTIVE MISSION
> Composing debut science-fiction novel
> Deploying short stories and flash fiction
> Transmitting essays, fiction, and poetry via Quasars & Queries
SERVICE HISTORY
SERVICE RECORD
// EDITORIAL & LITERARY
THE OXFORD AMERICAN
DIGITAL EDITORIAL INTERN
Performs fact checks, manages social media across platforms for OA Now, uploads articles using Kirby CMS, and writes the weekly editorial newsletter reaching over 30k subscribers. Interviewed and wrote a piece on Grand Ole Opry member Ashley McBryde.
ARKANA
MANAGING EDITOR & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Graduate assistantship through UCA serving as managing editor for an academic year. Manages a team of genre editors and readers, maintains the magazine's Substack and social media, and assigns submissions via Submittable.
// CONTENT CREATION
BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS
SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST
Maintained the store's Instagram and Facebook pages alongside duties as Senior Bookseller, earning national recognition for excellence in content creation.
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Maintained Instagram and Facebook for the creative writing program, created an ad for the Poets & Writers website, and implemented a content matrix and Linktree.
// LIT MAG OPERATIONS
THE VORTEX
Fiction & Nonfiction Reader
2024 — 2025
ARKANA
Fiction, Nonfiction, & Hybrid Reader
2025 — 2026
WALLSTRAIT
Assistant Editor & Fiction Reader
2025 — 2026
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