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Editors-In-Chief Pooja Prabakaran (California) Pooja Prabakaran is a writer from the Bay Area and a 2022 California Arts Scholar. Her poetry has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She enjoys reading and writing everything uncanny and sublime. When she’s not writing, she’s listening to K-pop and baking cookies! Managing Editors Julia Choi (California) Julia Choi is a student from Southern California. She was recognized as a 2022 California Arts Scholar and was named as one of the finalists for the 2024 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate Program. She is a co-founder of the New Air Era Project, and at school, she is part of her school's golf team and Academic Decathlon. Katie Marsden (California) Katie is a student from Vallejo, California who loves reading and writing fantasy stories, imaginative poems, and thoughtful dramatic scripts. Her author inspiration is Brandon Sanderson for his imaginative world-building and dedication to his craft. If not buried in a book, you’ll probably find her in nature, either hiking, rock climbing, or swimming. General Editors Ann Merlynn Heard (United Kingdom) Merlynn is a curious student, enjoying learning as it happens whether it's independent or guided. One of their core values is that they want to help others and also develop skills along the way. After all, even if nothing material has come out of a project, there is always something to learn from it! Merlynn also has a strong passion for making any kind of graphic and writing their own novel. Other than that, Merlynn also loves just relaxing and playing basketball with family. Delphine Truong (United Arab Emirates) Delphine is a student passionate about the arts, reading and social issues. Feminism and equality are incredibly important to her. Alma Ariaz (Canada) Alma Ariaz is originally from Boston, and now resides in Canada with her cat and dog. She has known she wanted to write professionally since she was nine years old, and wrote her first novel at the age of sixteen. She has since been published in literary journals such as Writers Resist, Fifty Word Stories, and Potato Soup Journal. Her work is mostly based in fiction, as well as involving her own personal life and familial battles. SK Meenakshi (India) SK Meenakshi (She/He/They) is an undergraduate student pursuing her degree in BA English Honours at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore, India. She has published a poetry collection titled, "Shades of Solitude." They are an avid reader and an aspiring writer. Sam Szanto (UK) Sam Szanto is a poet, short story writer, editor and PhD researcher from the UK. Her poetry pamphlet 'This Was Your Mother' was published by Dreich Press in 2024; another pamphlet, 'Splashing Pink' (with Annie Cowell), was published by Hedgehog Press in 2023 and was a Poetry Book Society Winter Pamphlet Choice. She won the 2024 Wirral Festival Poetry Prize, the Charroux Poetry Prize and the First Writer Poetry Prize and has had almost 80 poems published in journals including 'The Afterpast Review', 'Rialto', ''South Carolina Review' and 'The North'. As a fiction writer, she has had a short story collection published by Alien Buddha Press. Find her on Twitter at sam_szanto, Instagram at samszantowriter, Facebook at sam-szanto and on her website at samszanto.com Bella Majam (Philippines) Bella Majam is a creative writing student from the Philippine High School for the Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iris Youth Magazine, Ice Lolly Review, Gantala Press, Nebulous, and others. She is also currently a prose editor for HaluHalo Journal. Besides writing, she loves Mitski, Sylvia Plath, and her cat, Salmon. You can find more of her work at bellamajam.carrd.co Georgia Hatton (Germany) Eleanor Rose is a Berlin based, UK born painter and writer. Her poetry swings between dark confessions on themes of loss and gender, and ecstatic praise of all that’s good and wild. Her prose is more fantastical and concerned with weaving myth into day-to-day life. |
Yenna Lee (California) Yenna Lee is a student and writer from Orange County, California. She was recognized as a California Art Scholar in 2022. She has also won awards at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. In her free time, Yenna likes to play cello, dance, and read books of all genres. Tiffany Tan (California) Tiffany Tan is a book enthusiast from the Bay Area currently attending an art school as a junior majoring in theatre. In her free time, she enjoys living out her cinematic dreams, scouring for possible photography session locations in her city, and ranting on and on about the overlooked beauty of Chinese culture! She has received recognition in both the theatre and visual art disciplines. Venus Fung (Hong Kong) Venus Fung is a sixteen-year-old appreciator of literary art based in Hong Kong. Complex literature, well-written lyrical masterpieces and deep conversations make up the bulk of her personality; under her pen, anything could be her muse. She believes that there is a meaning to all that exists if it is read and looked at enough times. Writing is her preferred medium of conversation with herself, and with those who appreciate the arts within life the way she does. She hopes to inspire, but even more so she hopes to simply be there and support those who are struggling through her own words. Arushi (Aera) Rege (Arizona) Arushi (Aera) Rege is a queer, Indian-American poet who simultaneously attends junior year in high school. In their free time, they can be found reading good books, listening to R&B, and stressing over college. They tweet occasionally @academic_core and face the perils of instagram @aeranem_26. Their works have been published or are forthcoming in Stone of Madness Press, Full House Literary Magazine, fifth wheel press, and more. You can find their website at arushiaerarege.carrd.co. Jeannie Lam (Hong Kong) Jeannie Lam (she/her) is a Christian writer that started her writing career at age 8 typing in size 24 font and neon pink. When not writing, she reads painful books and obsesses over her favourite character's death. Literary devices, especially alliteration and pathetic fallacies, intrigue her to no end. She also collects special edition books and would enjoy a random conversation about any book. Jamie Lammers (Colorado) Jamie Lammers is a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying creative writing with minors in music and film and a certificate in Native American and Indigenous studies. His passion for writing first developed in his junior year of high school, when he took a creative writing class and an English class that inspired him to be more creative. Since then, he's been writing for his local paper, The Mountain Ear, he's been published in the CU Boulder creative nonfiction journal Hindsight, and he's performed an original choral piece for the Renova choir. He also founded the literary journal Foxes Dancing Around. Leigh Brady (Ireland) Leigh Brady is a writer from Dublin, Ireland, currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has completed an MA in English Literature, and a BA in English and Sociology, both from Maynooth University. Her creative interests fall in short form media, short stories, flash fiction and poetry, with her favourite genres being sci-fi, horror, and magical realism. When she is not reading she can be found immersed in Musical Theatre or in Disneyland. Bonnie Simmons (New York) Bonnie Simmons is a barista, writer, and visual artist based in Long Island. |