Fiona Lueditor-in-chief
Fiona is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been featured in Up the Staircase Quarterly and Strange Horizons. Apart from just writing, they are an avid artist, and a shameless tourist. She hopes you have a great day! She tweets @froitering, and can be found at https://froitering.wixsite.com/fionalwrites!
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Susan Hongeditor-in-chief
Susan is a student from Washington state. She loves reading psychological thrillers and historical fiction, and has recently developed a taste for science fiction. Susan’s favorite color is blue and she is most definitely a cat person.
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Trini Fengeditor-in-chief
Trini is a student from Illinois. She writes in a variety of genres and forms, ranging from the mundane to the speculative. Her work has previously been published in Hooligan Mag, Bluefire, and Ice Lolly Review, among others. Trini collects, perhaps excessively, all things that create their own stories: songs, notebooks, even logic problem solutions.
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Eva Zhengeditor-in-chief
Eva is a student from New York. She is an ampersand (&) lover. In her free time, she loves to read a variety of genres including magic realism, memoirs, and mysteries. She is an alum of Kenyon Review Young Writers and is current a fellow at Urban World NYC.
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Mackenzie Duan
general editor
Mackenzie is a junior from the Bay Area. Her writing has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and she serves as an editor for Polyphony Lit. She likes philosophy, music, and hot pockets.
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Jacqueline Xiong
general editor
Jacqueline Xiong is a fifteen-year-old Chinese American writer from Houston. She loves rainy weather, which is unfortunately rare in Texas. Jacqueline is interested in any form of creative expression, whether it is musical composition, writing, or coding. In her spare time, she also enjoys traveling, drinking boba tea, and playing tennis.
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Eleanor Ball
general editor
Eleanor Ball is a queer poet, essayist, and speculative fiction writer from Des Moines, Iowa. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions and featured in Stone Pacific Zine, Vagabond City Lit, Write or Die, and elsewhere. She is currently studying for her M.A. in Library & Information Science. Find her online @aneleanorball on Twitter and eleanorball.carrd.co.
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Hana Kim
general editor
Hana (they/she/he) is a recent English & Global Studies graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign struggling to find a job. They are currently collecting incense sticks & their favorite movie is The Social Network (2010)! twitter @hanakix / (fan)twitter @akaeijis.
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Shaliz Bazldjoo
general editor
Shaliz is a rising junior living in Cleveland, Ohio. Work of hers has been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards and other contests, and she is forthcoming in Radon Journal and Lost Boys Press. The only things she loves more than writing are editing, drinking smoothies, and lamenting how hard it is to be a teenager.
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Leela Raj-Sankar
general editor
Leela Raj-Sankar is a teenage writer living in Arizona. Her work has previously appeared in Gastropoda Lit, Idle Ink, perhappened mag, and Lumiere Review, among others. She is the winner of Overheard Literary's pop-up flash fiction contest, and is a poetry reader for Farside Review. In her spare time, she loves singing, reading, and doing math. She can be found on Twitter @sickgirlisms, or at leelarajsankar.carrd.co.
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Lauren Zhu
general editor
Lauren Zhu is a writer from New York. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in celestite poetry, Eunoia Review, ONE ART, among others. In her free moments, Lauren steeps herself in music, be it in the cadence of a poem, or the silence between switching songs on an eight-hour-long playlist.
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Emily Taylor
general editor
Emily Taylor is from Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, Eunoia Review, Farside Review, and elsewhere.
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Kelly Chingeneral editor
Kelly is a writer and student who lives in Singapore. Her favourite things to write about are soft scenes of nature and people, and she is constantly searching for ways in which literature can be used to create a more loving world. In her free time, she can be found reading, crocheting, or hugging her ikea shark.
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Aaliyah Andersongeneral editor
Aaliyah Anderson (she/her) is a senior Literary Arts major at her high school in Petersburg, VA. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Beaver Magazine, coalitionworks, miniMAG, and elsewhere. She has multiple Silver Keys from Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. Aaliyah's obsessed with storytelling.
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Keerthana Ageneral editor
Keerthana A (she/her) is an Indian writer and often describes herself as a "Mumbaikar living within a Tamilian", owing to her multilingual identity. She is a lover of poetry and has an avid learning for new formats and styles. Her works have been featured in Healthline, Ilinix, and is forthcoming in Fleuri Magazine and more. She is also working as a staff article and creative writer at Healthline Zine. She enjoys singing, swimming, watching historical shows, and running towards the nearest beach to feel the ocean waves. Her Twitter is @seoulsmoonki and her Instagram is @keerthana.reads.
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Sarah Christine Williamsgeneral editor
Sarah (she/her) is a queer writer from Indiana. She possesses a bachelor's degree in computer and information technology and has previously worked as a systems engineer. Her hobbies include playing Stardew Valley, making highly obscure Spotify playlists, and rereading The Raven Cycle.
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Rowan Crosthwaitegeneral editor
Rowan Crosthwaite is a 30-something nonbinary artist, writer, spouse, and parent. Their hobbies include art, writing, reading, playing with spreadsheets, and indulging in their favorite media. Rowan has always loved creativity in all forms, but is particularly obsessed with process, intention, and method. While currently an accountant to pay the bills, they daydream about someday making a full-time occupation of creating and supporting art and its surrounding community. Their various presences and publications can be found at https://linktr.ee/Ruthenium.
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Alyanna Batoygeneral editor
Alyanna is an eighteen-year-old Filipino writer and filmmaker, living in the UK. When she’s not writing, she spends her time working part-time in her local bakery, playing guitar, and consuming all types of media – from world cinema to classic literature, she strives to broaden her perspective through filling her life with variety. She can be found on Instagram at @crvshed.velvet.
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MJ Gomezgeneral editor
MJ Gomez is a Filipino poet. He is the author of the chapbook Love Letters from a Burning Planet (Variant Literature, 2023). His poems are featured/forthcoming in Surging Tide, the Dawn Review, the Acropolis Journal, the Selkie, and others. You can find him on Twitter @bluejayverses !
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Selina Zougeneral editor
Selina is an aspiring student from Washington who occasionally tries to put pencil to paper. She enjoys reading genres beginning with “e” like existentialism, ecocriticism, essays, etc. In her imaginary free time, she practices writing with her non-dominant hand and consumes copious amounts of corn flakes with milk.
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Andrea Geradageneral editor
Andrea is a writer from the Philippines. She loves candles, cats, and children's stories. In her free time, she is thinking about writing a story. She prefers this to actual writing.
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Daniel Reyesgeneral editor
Daniel has made many mistakes in his life, but reading is certainly not one of them. In spite of his regrets, Daniel's singular desire is to find the faults in our language, our methods of communication, and bare them to the light in the hope that we can find a way to overcome them. To that end, he is obsessed with literature in translation and by authors who lived in that liminal space that Gloria Anzaldua called La Frontera. Authors like him, who never felt quite at home on one side or the other and remind us that when you don't have a home, you're free to wander.
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Lynne Inouyegeneral editor
Lynne Inouye is a queer fiction writer and a senior in high school. She's previously been published in Blue Marble Review and Pyre Magazine, and she is a Prose Editor for The Cloudscent Journal. When she's not writing, she enjoys acting, spending time with her cat, and listening to DND podcasts. She can be found on Twitter @liinouye.
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D. H. Lane
general editor
D. H. Lane is a creative writing and linguistics undergrad at Syracuse University. She spends her time writing on classic civilizations, language, queer identity, horror, and deer in the headlights. Her work is on substack at https://delightfullyunhinged.substack.com as well as published in Beloved Zine, warning lines, dog teeth, and swim press.
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Christina Juliengeneral editor
Christina Julien is a homeschooled high-school junior, aspiring novelist, staff writer for Whitewashed Magazine, and occasional poet with forthcoming work in Fleuri Magazine. When not reading high fantasy, she can be found learning Chopin Etudes, writing sci-fi, or thinking about writing sci-fi.
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Keerthisri Kaanangeneral editor
Keerthisri Kannan (she/her) is an Indian-American writer with a strange sense of humor and a love for night skies. Her works have been published or is forthcoming in Ice Lolly Review, Paper Crane Journal, and elsewhere. When she's not writing, you can find her (aggressively) playing the flute, doing math problems, or procrastinating (while wishing she was traveling to some exotic new world).
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Lilirose Luogeneral editor
Lilirose Luo is a California-residing queer student & poet. When she's not writing, you might find her loving the ocean, learning to bake (as a love language), or thinking about another missing deadline.
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Colleen
art editor
Colleen is a student based in the Bay Area who is interested in various fields of the arts. Some of her hobbies include drawing and learning to animate, as well as making music and food. She has participated in zines and other forms of collaborative works in the past and enjoys working with others who are also passionate about art!
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Nicole (Xujia) Guan
art editor
Nicole Guan is a rising senior in Canada with passions for creative writing, editing, and photography. Her short stories have been regionally recognized in the Scholastics Writing Awards and she is an alum of IYWS 2022. Nicole's favourite author is Virginia Woolf; she just loves her poetic writing style and descriptions of intricate relationships! She has worked at several literary magazines and genuinely loves the feeling of discovering beautiful submissions and art through talented young creators.
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Sophie Haographic designer
Sophie is a student from Maryland who’s currently pursuing a major in design. In her free time, she likes to draw, read, and visit all kinds of museums. Her artwork has been recognized by TeenInk, Scholastics, and the Living Oceans Foundation.
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