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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Fiona Jin is a Chinese American writer in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Her work appears in Kissing Dynamite, Rust + Moth, GASHER Press, amongst others, and has been recognized by YoungArts and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Find her @fionajin07 on Twitter.
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MANAGING EDITORS
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Kaydance Rice (she/her) is a writer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in the Taco Bell Quarterly, YoungArts Anthology, Cargoes, voicemail poems, and Full Mood Magazine. In her free time, Kaydance can be found playing the viola, rambling about existentialism, and spending time with her plants.
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Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work is published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, New Ohio Review, Palette Poetry, Quarterly West, RHINO, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University where she served on the staff of The Journal. When not writing, she can be found stress baking. Catch her at arahko.com.
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POETRY EDITORS
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Jayant Kashyap often writes poetry and nonfiction at the intersection of science and literature, loves ghazals and likes watching paintings/photographs for hours. He has published two pamphlets/chapbooks, Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019) and Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020) and a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021). His writing appears in POETRY, Magma, Arc, Poetry Wales and elsewhere. He is also an artist and loves talking about all of it. Currently, he’s working on several longer collections about people, places and being in love.
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Heather Qin (she/her) is from New Jersey. She is an alumnus of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. Her work has been recognized by the New York Times, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Breakbread Literary Magazine, Columbia College Chicago, among others. Heather loves classical music, watching anime, and playing gacha games. Find her @_greenbubbles on Twitter.
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Ruoyu Wang (王若雨) is from Washington state. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Shore, COUNTERCLOCK, Interstellar Lit, and antinarrative zine, among others. You can find them curating Spotify playlists, drinking matcha, enjoying socks, or @wangwrites_ on Twitter.
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PROSE EDITORS
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Ange Yeung is a Chinese-Canadian writer from the West Coast. Aside from writing, Ange loves Mitski and water.
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Xime Silva is a junior at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her work has been recognized by the Poetry Society of America, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, among others.
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Angela Chen is a Shanghai-born writer presently in Providence. She thinks often of kumquats, cartilage, and her most beloved ones in this world. She loves lists of three. Her writing has been recognized by the New York Times, Scholastic Arts & Writing, Plexus, VISIONS, Sandpiper, and others.
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Saturn Browne (she/they) is a writer from New England. She is the inaugural Connecticut Youth Poet Laureate and has been recognized by Connecticut River Review, the Pulitzer Center, Hollins University, Smith College, and others. Her debut chapbook, BLOODPATHS, was published in April with Kith Books. She loves A24 films, the ocean, and art galleries.
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ART EDITOR
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Oladosu Michael Emerald (he/him) is an art editor at Surging Tide magazine, a poet, a writer, a digital/musical/visual artist, an art teacher, a photographer, a footballer, and a political scientist. He's an author of many books—(some accredited to his name, while some are ghostwriting). His works have been published or forthcoming in many magazines and won numerous awards in writing and art; few to mention: Better Than Starbucks, Flash Frog, Icefloe Press, Oriire magazine, Oneblackboy Review, Undivided magazine, Feral, Afrocritik, Providus bank anthology, Necro magazine, spill word web, Paper lantern lit, the maul magazine, Zoetic, penumbric, native skin, Nymph, Naija Reader's Buffet, Terror house magazine, Spring word web, Third Estate Art magazine, thehearth magazine, kalonipa, and elsewhere. Say hi to him on Twitter @garricologist and Instagram @emerald_arts1.
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INTERVIEW COLUMNIST
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I.S. Jones is an American / Nigerian poet and essayist. She is a Graduate Fellow with The Watering Hole and holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer’s Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus and elsewhere. For the last three years, she served the Director of the Watershed Reading Series with Art + Literature Laboratory. She is currently an instructor with Brooklyn Poets and is the 2023 Bread Loaf- Rona Jaffe Scholar. Her chapbook Spells of My Name (2021) is out with Newfound.
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STAFF WRITERS
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Stella Ho is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She is an incoming graduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Alex Romero is a native of Queens, New York. After earning his BA from Sarah Lawrence College, he taught English in a fishing village in the northwest of France. In 2022, he was awarded the Matt Leone Fellowship at Colgate University. He is a 2023 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys, Maudlin House, Revolver Literary Magazine, and others. He is currently completing his MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where he was awarded a Chair’s Fellowship. Find him on Instagram: @lil__papo
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PREVIOUS EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
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Emma Miao (she/her) is a writer from Vancouver, Canada and a rising freshman at Harvard University. Her poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Cincinnati Review, Frontier Poetry, Atlanta Review, Diode, Permafrost, HOBART, and Subnivean. She is the author of Geography of Mothers (Frog Hollow, 2021) and is the recipient of the Cincinnati Review and The Fiddlehead's annual poetry prizes. An interdisciplinary artist and a classically trained pianist who loves to improvise, she has a soft spot for striking, luminous, genre-defying work.
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Sophia Liu (she/her) is the author of There Is No Happy Ending (New Rivers Press 2023). Her work appears in Frontier Poetry, Puerto del Sol, AAWW: The Margins, Muzzle Magazine, DIALOGIST, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. She likes pumpkin bread, babies, and most farm animals.
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Andrew Kang was the winner of the 2022 Narrative High School Writing Contest, judged by Jericho Brown, and has work recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and the Adroit Prizes. Andrew will attend Harvard College in the fall.
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Staff Emeritus: Sako Antonyan, Sophie Bernik, Aaira Goswami, Samantha Hsiung, Michelle Lu, Andrew Yuan.