Doris Brogan – A resident of Mesquite, Brogan is majoring in English and is planning to pursue a career in writing. Previously employed in paste-up/page management at the Dallas Morning News, a staff reduction at the newspaper prompted her to return to school to pursue a degree in English. She currently serves as the managing editor of Parallax, the award-winning Richland College literary magazine, and is editing a book of memoirs from World War II veterans as project for Phi Theta Kappa, an academic honorary. Brogan read two poems that she wrote during the awards program; they were titled “Torch Singer: Shades of Rose” and “Change Is Hard.”