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BREANNA CROSSMAN
Editor-in-Chief
Breanna Crossman (she/her) is an eighteen-year-old writer from Orange County, California, who currently resides in Virginia. Her favorite authors are Joan Didion, David Mitchell, and Kurt Vonnegut. She is an alumna of the Adroit Summer Mentorship under Brad Felver and has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NCTE, and the Adroit Prizes.
MAYA WALKER
Executive Editor
Maya Walker (she/her) is an avid reader, tea drinker, and lover of words. She is the editor in chief of Fulminare Review, an editor for Kalopsia Literary, and a staff writer for Immortal Journal. You can find her at the abyss of ink known colloquially as the Instagram page @maya_whispers_words. She tweets, @_maya_writes_
L.R. DREW
Feedback Coordinator
L.R Drew (she/her) is a high school student from Australia. She goes by Drew for anonymity. She has been writing for as long as she can remember but also loves to work with anything involving technology. She spends her spare time reading and labouring over her books. You can find her on Instagram or on Twitter. (@l.rdrew)
ARIANA KATA
Art Editor
Ariana Kata (she/her) is a nineteen-year-old painter, photographer, and writer from New York. She enjoys knitting, playing guitar, people watching, films, and spending time in nature. You can find her art on Instagram @wildddfflower.
DIANA OSPINA
Prose Editor
Diana Ospina (she/they) is a sixteen-year-old reader from New York, who hopes to help diversify the world of literature. When she is not studying or working, she loves to explore the different genres in writing, learn other languages, update their Goodreads, and watch late ‘90s sitcoms.
SOPHIA HAO
Art Editor
Sophie Hao (she/her) is an 18-year-old artist from Maryland. She also enjoys doing various design work for school and outside organizations. In her free time, she likes to cook, hike, and read contemporary books.
CAREN ANDERSON
Poetry Editor
Caren Anderson (she/her) is an aspiring journalist who is a staff writer of her school’s newspaper. She is an avid reader, poetry lover, and crocheter. Caren also spends her time researching ways to help the environment, the ethicality and sustainability of companies, and consumer behavior. Her Instagram is @alexis52852852.
TOSIN OKEWOLE
Prose Editor
Tosin Okewole (she/her) is an 18-year-old writer from Nigeria. She loves to write about the unpredictability of love and the frailty of existence. Her work has been published in Brittle Paper and NantyGreens and is forthcoming in Oranges Journal. Outside of writing, she is an avid cat lover, a potential plant mom and a crossword enthusiast. She tweets @tosinnokewole and runs a medium page http://tosinokewole.medium.com
SOPHIE JOHNSTON
Prose Editor
Sophie Johnston (she/her) is a 16 year old high school sophomore located in Arizona, USA. In 2020, she was featured in Creative Communications: A Celebration of Young Poets, and serves on the Teen Advisory Board for her local library, the advisory board to GirlSpring Magazine, and is a Youth Ambassador for the World Literary Foundation. In her free time, Sophie enjoys playing the piano and exercising.
ASHLEY LIEN MORROW
Prose Editor
Ashley (she/her) is a mixed writer from Southern California. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Blossom Magazine. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing literary fiction in addition to haunting used book stores around her neighborhood.
WILLOW KANG
Prose Editor
Willow Kang (she/her) is a writer from Singapore, where she is studying. Her current preoccupations include taking naps, and taking naps. While not in school, Willow reads a copious amount of fairytales and writes the same way to keep herself sane. Coffee breaks are also on her mind.
ALEXANDRA RAE
Columnist
Alexandra Rae (she/her) is prose writer & editor based in the U.S. She deeply admires the works of genre-bending artists like Lauren Slater and Nick Flynn and seeks to push the boundaries of narrative within her own work. Alexandra also loves women-centered stories that destroy stereotypes and conventional portrayals of female characters. She edits for Outlander Zine and posts her poetry & prose on instagram (@theresonationofalexandra).
AMINA RADONCIC
Columnist
Amina Radoncic is a seventeen-year-old high school student from Long Island, York. She is a lover of all things related to literature, law, and history, with some of her favorite authors including Jane Austen and Sylvia Plath. While she does spend much of her free time reading, you can also find her hanging out with her three sisters, listening to music ranging from boygenius to beabadoobee, or watching history documentaries.
AARNA TYAGI
Columnist
Aarna Tyagi (she/her) is a fourteen-year-old writer and avid reader who currently resides in Long Island, New York. She enjoys playing discordant yet soothing chords on the piano, reading books, writing poems, and listening to music that speaks to her soul. Her favorite musical artists are Mitski, Radiohead, Lana Del Rey, Cocteau Twins, and Men I Trust. If you don't catch her listening to music, she's probably reading poetry by Ocean Vuong and Sappho or novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Audre Lorde, and Franz Kafka.
ASHLYNN THEO
Columnist
Ashlynn Theo (she/her) is a 19-year-old writer from Malaysia and an enthusiast for all things fantasy, forbidden love, and morally grey men bordering on villainous. A book addict and literature junkie, she finds herself happiest with a cup of hot chocolate, stacks of books and aesthetic stationery in pink. As an English and Creative Writing major, Ashlynn dreams of getting her first novel published in the near future, all while trying to incite an academic-rivals-to-lovers plotline in her life.
CAILEY TIN
Columnist
Cailey Tin is an interview editor of Paper Crane Journal. She is an Asia-based staff writer and podcast co-host at The Incandescent Review, a columnist in Incognito Press and Spiritus Mundi Review, and her work has been published in Fairfield Scribes, Alien Magazine, Cathartic Lit, and more. Her work is forthcoming in the Eunoia Review and Dragon Bone Publishing. Visit her Instagram @itscaileynotkylie.
BLANKA PILLÁR
Columnist
Blanka Pillár (she/her) is a sixteen-year-old writer from Budapest, Hungary. She has a never-ending love for creating and an ever-lasting passion for learning. She has won several national competitions and has been a columnist for her high school’s prestigious newspaper, Eötvös Diák. Today, she is not throwing away her shot.
DANNA TABOADA
Columnist
Danna Taboada (she/her) is a sixteen-year-old writer from New York. She loves listening to music of any genre, dancing, spending time with her family and friends, reading, and writing. She plans on majoring in Creative Writing in the future.
SMRITHE RAJESH
Columnist
Smrithe Rajesh is a 16 year old writer from Richmond, Virginia. Her work in prose as been featured in organizations such as Incandescent Studio and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In her free time, she likes to eat ice cream and watch video essays on YouTube.
