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Katherine Beach (2009)
Katherine Beach graduated in May 2009 with an honors degree in English and Creative Writing, a business minor, and an equine studies certificate with a concentration in teaching and schooling. She spent part of her summer in 2008 doing research and writing for Anguilla Life, a travel and lifestyle magazine in the British West Indies. Kate is currently the copy editor and secretary for the Sweet Briar student newspaper The Voice, the treasurer for the college literary magazine Red Clay, and the publications chair for the Student Relations Committee. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Kate studied abroad at the University of St. Andrews and as a result of one of her classes there is now pursuing an honors thesis on the subject of travel writing during her last year at Sweet Briar. One of her poems won the 2008 Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize.