She’s Asheville’s next Thomas Wolfe, to be sure. Jordan Castelloe was so passionate about writing that she convinced her parents to let her leave Asheville High after her sophomore year. She took writing classes at UNCA during that time, but mostly, she says, she just wrote short stories. She had never submitted them anywhere until she sent four to the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship committee in early 2010, who awarded her a full four-year scholarship to UNC-Chapel Hill. Last year, she spent 10 months traveling in Asia, Istanbul, Turkey and elsewhere before she started school. When asked about the power of writing to change the world, Castelloe says, “If one person becomes a little fonder of the human race because of one of my stories, I’d be happy.”