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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.

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Sophia Liu (she/her) is the author of There Is No Happy Ending (New Rivers Press 2023). Her work appears or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Puerto del Sol, AAWW: The Margins, Muzzle Magazine, DIALOGIST, Superstition Review, Storm Cellar, and elsewhere. She likes pumpkin bread, babies, and most farm animals. ​

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. 

POETRY EDITORS

Samantha Hsiung (she/her) is a student at Pinewood School. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Diode, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Rising Phoenix Review, and Cosmonauts Avenue, among others. Besides writing, she enjoys fencing, reading, and playing the piano.

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.

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. 

PROSE EDITORS

Ange Yeung is a Chinese-Canadian writer residing in Canada. Aside from writing, Ange loves Mitski and water.

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

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.

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS

Fiona Jin is a Chinese-American writer in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Her work is in or forthcoming at Kissing Dynamite, Rust + Moth, amongst others. Find her @fionajin07 on Twitter.

EDITORIAL LEAD

Ian Gomez (he/him) is a senior at St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia. He is a published author under the Philadelphia Writing Project, a section editor in the school newspaper, and his work has been recognized by the 2022 Scholastic Writing Awards and Bennett-Grady SJP writing contest. The scariest thing in his life is the size of his To Be Read list, and his favorite book is typically whichever one he has just finished.

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.

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.