About the Intern
Briony Gylgayton is the media intermediary for the Poetry Night Reading Series. A poet herself, she also works as the Senior Poetry Editor for UC Davis’s official literary magazine, Nameless Magazine. She has won multiple awards for her writing, including placing second for the 2010 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, and placing for both creative writing categories in the 2010 Pamela Maus Contest for Creative Writing, winning first in fiction and second in poetry. Her Creative Writing Honor’s Thesis, a manuscript of poetry about psychological disorders, was recently awarded the Elliot Gilbert Memorial Prize for the Best Undergraduate Honors Creative Work for 2010. When not writing poetry or Poetry Night press releases, Briony enjoys domestic pleasures such as baking, embroidering, and kickboxing.