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FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 

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.

MANAGING EDITORS

Sophia Liu (she/her) lives in Long Island, New York. Her poems and artwork appear or are forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, Rattle, DIALOGIST, Storm Cellar, Superstition Review, A Velvet Giant, Underblong, and elsewhere. She has been recognized by the National Youngarts Foundation, the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National Council of Teachers of English, Princeton University, Smith College, Columbia College Chicago, and Hollins University, among others. She loves Ziwe and Chicken Shop Date.

Andrew Kang (they/he) is from Baltimore, Maryland. They were the winner of the 2022 Narrative High School Writing Contest, judged by Jericho Brown, and have work recognized by the Adroit Prizes. They’re also a Fiona Apple stan. ​

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.

Sophie Bernik is a junior creative writing major at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan. Her work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Hobart, Identity Theory, and The Kenyon Review. She was in the top 0.5% of Mitski listeners in 2021 and owns seven leather jackets.

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 the 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.

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.

PROSE EDITORS

Ange Yeung (they/he) is a writer residing in Vancouver, Canada. Their work is in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine and the Ice Lolly Review. Aside from writing, they love Mitski and water.

Sasha Rotko (she/her) is a young writer and activist from the Los Angeles area with a passion for communicating personal truths through fiction. She co-coordinates Extinction Rebellion Youth US, which is a youth activism group fighting for intersectional climate justice and is an aspiring novelist. She spends her days reading and writing all genres, from nitty-gritty historical non- fiction to the most robust of fantasy.

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, places like, feral, paper lantern lit, native skin, the maul magazine,  third estate art, penumbric, zoetic press, to mention few. He has the usual list of awards-almost-won and awards-won. He's also an Art co-director of Surging Tide magazine.He switc He loves reggae & rap, adores football and boxing, and everything about politics. He fantisizes 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.

​Cooper Branch is a junior from San Diego, California. Her poetry has been recognized by the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the San Diego Poetry Annual Anthology. She is a current/past participate in Ellipsis one-on-one mentorship program with Peter LaBerge and Ellipsis summer workshops. In addition to writing, she is an avid Track and Field athlete and the founder/president of her school’s POC club.

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

Deanna Hu is a writer and student at UC Santa Barbara whose poetry and prose has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and small publishers. ​

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.