Latest Edition of Purple Patch is Available
The 2025 edition of Missouri Valley College’s literary and arts journal, the Purple Patch, is now available for pick up in the Murrell Memorial Library and Academic Support Center. Featuring original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, academic prose, and artwork (photography, screenprinting, painting, fiber arts, mixed media) by more than 30 MVC students, the Purple Patch is managed, edited, and published by members of the Nu Epsilon chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English Honor Society.
The six-member editorial board of Sigma Tau Deltans includes:
- Chané Higgo & Alexandrea Sutter – Co-Editors-in-Chief
- Shayne Mobley-Koutsky – Creative Nonfiction Editor
- Chané Higgo – Poetry Editor
- Noel Nunn-Faron – Art Editor
- James Phillips – Fiction Editor
- Reid Ronsley & Alexandrea Sutter – Academic Prose Editors
2024-2025 Purple Patch Editor’s Choice Awards went to:
- Donna Sutherland, Editor’s Choice Award for Creative Nonfiction: “Summer of 2013”
- James Menz, Editor’s Choice Award for Poetry: “Owed to Cabin Fever”
- Marissa Schaldecker, Editor’s Choice Award for Artwork: “The Light Shining Through”
- Zach Keali’i Murphy, Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction: “The Roof”
- Elena Sanchez Campos, Editor’s Choice Award for Academic Prose: “From Letters to Words”
Volume XXIV of the Purple Patch features work by:
Victor Aparicio Reques, Oliver Lazib Baladi, Rubén Baquero Martínez, Andrey Bastos, Olivia Bettencourt, Juliana Blackburn, Elena Sánchez Campos, Boe Chaplan, Nikoloz Chitaia, Daniele Filippo Condrutz, Sophie Cott, Estefano Del Aguila Delgado, Axel Duclos, Maria Herrero, Zach Keali’i Murphy, Alexandra Lorenzo, Angelica Mancilla, Kaya McCory, Andrew Mittl, Professor James Menz, Shayne Mobley-Koutsky, Manuel Raguso, Keira Saulter, Marissa Schaldecker, Samuele Serpelloni, Safaiou Sow, Brad Storrer, Donna Sutherland, Ratchanont Thamasonglar, Lucía Valdivia Escabias, and Santiago Zingoni.
In addition, the Nu Epsilon chapter of Sigma Tau Delta inducted eight new members at their spring meeting and elected the following officers for the 2025-2026 academic year: President: James Phillips; Vice President: Noel Nunn-Faron; Treasurer: Kaya Gorrow; Secretary: Reid Ronsley; Historian/PR Officer: Eva Agcaoili.