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Fiona Lu

editor-in-chief
Fiona is a writer & student from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been featured in Up the Staircase Quarterly, Kissing Dynamite, and Sin Theta Mag, among others. Apart from just writing, they are an avid mathematician, artist, and bubble tea connoisseur. 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 Hong

editor-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 Feng

editor-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 Zheng

editor-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.
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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 recently escaped from The George Washington University with a BS in Public Health and English. She plans to start her MA in Library Science this fall, but until then, she is hibernating and can only be reached by carrier pigeon. Her work is featured or forthcoming in The B’K, Bullshit Lit, Stone of Madness, the winnow, and elsewhere.
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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 Chin

general 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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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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