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Known as a girl with an unusual love of feathers, fairies, and glitter, it is understandable that Erica Janine “Kylee” McIntyre’s decision to apply for the St. Agnes Academy journalism staff was less than deliberate. Her love of reading had developed into a love of writing, and she merely wanted an outlet to express herself other than through formal class essays. She wrote her application at 2 AM the night before it was due, using CNN’s presidential election coverage as inspiration. The day she made the staff, she danced up and down the hallways of school with her fellow future staffer, Christine.

Since then, she has served on the staff of St. Agnes Academy’s TAPPS award-winning newspaper The Columns as entertainment columnist and on St. Agnes Academy’s literary magazine Reflections as co-editor-in-chief. Through her year on the journalism staff, Kylee not only found her outlet but she found her voice, and she looks forward to serving another eventful year on staff.

Kylee’s other passions include fiction writing, songwriting, and music. She sings in the St. Agnes/Strake Jesuit Mixed Chorus, is a member of the Triple Trio vocal ensemble, and has performed in several musicals, including You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Merrily We Roll Along, Birds of Paradise, and Les Miserables. Her first high school non-musical role came in the student-directed one-act play The Millenials, and she continues her record of being on house crew for every school production she does not perform in. Kylee also is a member of the St. Agnes Academy swim team and has been consistently on honor roll since her freshman year. She looks forward to her senior year and has set a wary but determined eye on her college search.

Kylee resides in and around Houston, Texas, with her mother Edna and her younger sister Kirsten.

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