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EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
MANAGING EDITOR
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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POETRY EDITORS
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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Andrew Yuan (he/they) is a rising junior from Phillips Exeter Academy. His work is forthcoming in The Blue Marble Review and has been recognized by Scholastic National Arts and Writing Awards. He is a current/past participant in Iowa Young Writers' Workshop and Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. In addition to creative writing, he is also a contributor to South China Morning Post.
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PROSE EDITORS
Kaydance Rice (she/her) is a writer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work can be found in The Interlochen Review, voicemail poems, The Ice Lolly Review, and Élan Magazine. She is also a staff contributor for The Lunar Journal. In her free time, Kaydance can be found playing the viola, rambling about existentialism, and spending time with her plants
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ART DIRECTOR
Oladosu Michael Emerald (he/him/his) is a Nigerian digital/musical/visual artist, poet, and a footballer. His works have been published or forthcoming in many places both in print and online, including Feral, Paper Lantern Lit, Native Skin, The Maul Magazine, Third Estate Art, Penumbric, and Zoetic Press. He loves reggae & rap, adores football and boxing, and everything about politics. He fantasizes about reincarnating as an angel. He tweets @garricologist and @emerald_arts1 on Instagram.
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STAFF WRITERS
Michelle Lu is a high school senior from the Bay Area. She is a 2021 California Arts Scholar, and her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards and in the Writopia Youth Essay Conference. In her leisure, Michelle deeply enjoys reflecting in her journal, reading, and writing poetry. In the future, she hopes to continue developing her passion for writing alongside other fellow creatives.
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Aaira Goswami is from Assam, India. She has been writing since she was 10, and has published around 25+ articles in different magazines, like Teen Ink, Children's World and Planet Young (Assam Tribune). She also maintains her own blog and is the senior editor at her school's newsletter. Her favourite authors include Jane Austen, Chimamanda Adichie, and Agatha Christie. Besides writing, she leads the cultural and economics club at her school.
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FOUNDING EDITOR
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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