Hannah Gazdus has always been crafty. She started off simple, making things with cardboard and clay. As a kid growing up in the Red Bank area of New Jersey, she would sell bracelets on the beach to fund her LEGO purchases.
“My favorite part of LEGOs were the extra pieces that you got in the sets that you didn’t actually use,” says Gazdus. “I had a special container of those because they were always Star Wars robot arms or odd shapes, and I would build little robots and other contraptions out of them. Finding those scraps and putting them together became more rewarding than the actual sets.”
She also loved telling stories, and would create videos with her friends featuring LEGO minifigures. Then, everything changed when she realized she could create more permanent stories by writing them down.
Now a senior double-majoring in creative writing and…
