Beck Jaeckels (she/they) is a Red Oak alum and journalist-turned-English-teacher with a passion for the power of storytelling. When Beck isn’t overanalyzing plots in books, movies, and video games, you’ll find her working on stained glass projects, wrangling a husky, or working on her own novel. She’s excited to be back at Red Oak this summer to help campers translate the fantasies in their heads to words on paper.

Rachel Enright (she/her) is a high school English teacher who can’t believe she actually gets paid to talk about books all day. An avid writer, she belongs to Red Oak and participates in a Roundtable critique group. In addition to winning the 2021 Southern New Hampshire University Fall Fiction Contest, Rachel’s story “Riding a Bike in the Land of the Dead,” appears in Jokes Review Literary Journal. Her novel The Space Between Siblings won the Larry Watson First Novel Prize and is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in February 2027. When she’s not reading or writing, she is most likely crocheting, because she is convinced that grandmothers have the best hobbies. Learn more about Rachel.