Editor-In-Chief

Jiyu Hong is a writer from North Carolina. Besides writing, she enjoys learning random biology facts, baking, and going down Google rabbit holes.

Poetry Editors

Olivia Burgess is an 18 year old word chef raised and residing near London, England. Her poetry usually revolves around her deep admiration of nature, the frailty of humankind, or her muse, who shall remain unnamed. Soon embarking on an English degree, she has been published in over 20 micro press avenues. When she’s not composing poetry she likes to walk dogs, cook, and stare at the moon. She hopes you take care of yourself today. @light_green.eyes

Prose Readers

Mariam Bukia is a 15-year-old student from Georgia. She is active and open to challenges because she thinks the world is a playground of unlimited possibilities. She works as a general manager, project manager, PR manager, young teacher, head of the personnel department, book club leader, and speaker in educational organizations. She writes poems, stories, and sketches because, in this way, she feeds the garden of her thoughts and ideas with sunlight.

Prose Editors

A’Daja Harris is a ravenous reader turned whimsical writer with a peculiar taste for graphic memoir. Her love for language knows no bounds—evident in her unprecedented obsession with em-dashes. @adayjust

Content Writers

Sariya Camp is a writer, avid reader, and tea-drinker with an enthusiasm for classic literature. She is currently studying English at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her work is forthcoming in Metrosphere.

Lucy Bartholomew is a second-year English Language and Linguistics student at the University of York. Her interests mainly lie in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, and she is the current Editor for JoULAB (Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain). She is also a Sub-Editor for The Young Historians. When she’s not songwriting or reading Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, or Julia Quinn, she’s usually seen being a total movie buff or listening to Taylor Swift on repeat.

Art Editor

Sophia Liu is a senior at the Harker School in San Jose. She is a Scholastic Arts national gold and silver medalist and published or forthcoming in Fleeting Daze, Blue Marble Review, Moonbow Magazine, and more. She is her school’s Art Club co-president, staff artist for Fleeting Daze, and managing editor for her school’s economics journal. Outside of art, she researches childhood development in rural China at SCCEI.