Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Jamie Kim

Jamie Kim is a poetry & short story writer from NJ and will attend Columbia University for Creative Writing. Her work is published in Idle Ink, Apprentice Writer, Third Wednesday and Eunoia Review. Her poetry has also garnered her  Scholastic Art and Writing national gold medal, a GENIUS Olympiad silver medal, and an honorable mention from the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2023 Open Poetry Contest. Most days, Jamie is in bed reading beside her dog.

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Executive Editor

Neda Ravandi

Neda Ravandi is an Iranian-American ballet dancer and creative writer from Houston, Texas. She has 11 recognitions from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and is a recipient of the Fiction Attic Press Teen Voices scholarship. She is an alumnus of the Iowa University summer writing program and her poetry is published in So To Speak journal. She has a mild obsession with Jeff Buckley and loves anything and everything Tarantino. Check out her emergent magazine Saffron City Press, or look for her on Instagram @neda__ravandi and Letterboxd @neda_r

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Senior Editor

michelle li

Michelle Li has been nationally recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing, The Waltham Forest Poetry Contest, and the Rising Voices Awards, and is published in Blue Marble, Masque and Spectacle, and Lumina Journal. She is an alumnus of the 92Y Young Writer's Workshop, and Kenyon Review's Workshop, and is on the board of the Incandescent Review and Pen and Quill magazine. She plays violin and piano and loves Rachmaninoff and Sylvia Plath.​

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Partner Manager

isabella wu

Bella Wu was born and raised in New York City, is an alumna of the Chapin School, and currently attends school in Connecticut. She also works as an editor for Polyphony Lit and is the two-time recipient of the Thorne Prize for Poetry and has studied creative writing at the 92Y Young Writers’ Workshop and the Juniper Institute. She is fascinated by human sexuality and melodrama and can be found eating a whole sleeve of Biscoff cookies at two in the morning. ​

Managing Editor

michelle lee

Michelle Lee is a creative writer and high school student from New Jersey. She loves writing short stories and flash fiction, drawing inspiration from speculative fiction. When she’s not writing, she enjoys baking small desserts, listening to music, watching movies, and getting lost in a good book.

Social Media Manager

Angie Lucien

Angie Lucien is a summer child who loves the smell of candy stores. Her works have been published in the Eunoia Review, Ink & Marrow, Fleeting Daze among many others. She also reads for Aster Lit, hoping to bring an international perspective into the English poetry community. A keyboardist and (song)writer, she also obsesses over Syd Barrett and John Lennon on her Instagram: @delucienal_

Staff Writer

Jovi Aviles

Jovi Aviles is a teen writer from Northern New Jersey. She is an aspiring author with big aspirations. Her work has been recognized by PWN Teen and Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her favorite authors are Sylvia Plath and Donna Tartt, whose work inspired her to start writing. She is often found writing in her bedroom and listening to 90s music

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Graphic/Artistic Designer & Poetry Editor

Solly woo

Solly Woo is a writer from South Korea. Her work has been published in Encephalon Journal, and other little magazines. She will attend the Juniper Young Writers Workshop this upcoming summer. When she isn't writing, she likes collecting trinkets and taking photographs. You can find her work @scllywritings on Instagram. 

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Staff Writer

Melissa hurtado

Melissa Hurtado is a rising writer originating from Mexico City, Mexico. Her work had been recognized by Young Writers and currently submitted to a selection of magazines. Her passion for writing ignited at an early age, when her teachers and peers would recognize her talent for creating captivating stories and poetry. You’ll most likely need to take her book or pen out of her hands to make her look up.

Poetry/Prose Editor

Alistair Gaunt 

Alistair Gaunt (they/he/she) is a Filipino queer non-binary poet born in Southern Philippines. She is a self-taught writer, with English being her third language. Their writing contemplates the queer experience, violent desires, peculiar dreams, death, grief, and catharsis. He is currently a full time university student, taking up Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Aside from written literature, they also host poetry readings via Instagram Reels (@hauntedbythestars). They may be contacted through alistairgauntwriting@gmail.com.

Staff Writer

Mavis Sterling

Mavis Sterling is a teenage writer from one of the southwestern U.S. states. She has harbored a strong passion for the literary arts since she first read Ella Enchanted in the second grade. Her current favorite authors are Shirley Jackson, George Orwell, & Emily Bronte. She enjoys writing gothic tales & stories about the female experience. When she isn’t writing or reading, you can find her doing archery, baking sweet treats, or crocheting silly things.

Staff Writer

Maya Adenihun 

Maya Adenihun is a poet currently studying at UC San Diego. Her writing explores surrealism, salvation, dreams, and finding a sense of self. She has been published numerous times by Inlandia Institute for their 5th and 6th Spring Issues and in their Blacklandia anthology These Black Bodies Are by Romaine Washington. Under her pen name, Princess Unusual, she has been published in dadakuku and is forthcoming in GENREPUNK. Her instagram is @paralyzed_pandemonium and her Substack is @princessunusual where she blogs about experimental poetry, surrealist vignettes, and aesthetics philosophy.

Poetry/Prose Editor

Christine Belandres

Christine Belandres is a writer from Cebu, Philippines. She studies Literature and has been published in her school newspaper and magazine. She likes to read classics, drama, and sometimes psychological thriller, and goes to writing events for fun. To Kill a Mockingbird was the book that spurred her to explore her now-favorite genres.

Poetry/Prose Editor

chloe wu

Chloe Wu is a teen writer from Los Angeles, California. She enjoys creatively expressing herself in various forms—whether that be through free verse poetry, amateur art, or fashion. Her typically dramatic style characterizes her writing, coloring it with desperation, lingering guilt, sporadic rage, and abstractions that help her process and reconciliate with life’s experiences. On an average day, she can be found listening to music in her bedroom, going down another internet rabbit hole.