Ashton-Taylor Ackerson is a 26-year-old writer from Austin, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in English. Ashton-Taylor is one of the co-founders and editors of the online literary magazine Crown & Pen. Her work has been published in Crown & Pen, ARC Journal, The Raven Review, and Red Skies Anthology. When she’s not writing, Ashton-Taylor is always on the lookout for the best food to be had in Austin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter: @ashtonalopoli

 

Kshitija Aherkar (She/Her), 18, a student and a budding writer from Mumbai, India. Her work portrays kaleidoscopes of mental health, identity, magic, visons, critiques, nature and timelines. She loves talking and finds meaning by narrating stories, being a spoken poet. In her spare time, she enjoys Ukulele, calligraphy and paper work.

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Yumna Ahmad is a 17 year old writer from Ontario, Canada. She is a staff writer for the Defiant Magazine and is currently working to become a novelist. Her work can also be found on Reedsy under the pen name "Kathryn Dino."

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Sofia Ahmed is from Irvine, California. She is fourteen years old and loves to write poetry as well as read everything from historical fiction to fantasy. She likes to observe people and characters to pick out their interesting quirks and defining features.

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Salim Yakubu Akko is a writer and poet. He is a World Voices Magazine’s Nigerian correspondent and a guest contributor at Applied Worldwide. He has his works published/forthcoming in Upwrite Magazine Nigeria, Scratch Poetry Magazine, Calabar Poetry Magazine and Trouvaille Review.

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21-year-old Los Angeles-born Filipino-American Rachel Alarcio’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming in two award-winning WriteGirl anthologies, Primeval Monster, Zero Readers, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Exposition Review, at LAX’s Terminal 7-8, and elsewhere. They are a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Silver Medalist in Short Story. She is currently working towards her B.A. in English from Kalamazoo College. Find them @rachelalarcio on Twitter, @raechillout on Instagram, and rachelalarcio.com.

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Maya Alinaizi is an Arab-Canadian high school student residing in the Middle East. She enjoys writing and creating art that explores heavy themes in various art forms and mediums.

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Rebekah Alire is an 18 year old writer from San Diego, CA. She has been writing since seventh grade, has won multiple writing awards, and has been featured in her high school's literary journal. She plans to attend college in the spring to receive a degree in Art and Humanities with which she hopes to become a museum curator and an author.

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Jannah Yusuf Al-Jamil is a sixteen-year-old Muslim-American writer from Washington, D.C who is forthcoming in Amethyst Review and Overheard Lit. They enjoy researching obscure history and eating far too many sweets. They are the head literary reader of Antinarrative Zine (@antinarrativeZ). Learn more about them at jannahyusufaljamil.carrd.co.

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Olivia Allan is a 21-year-old writer from Melbourne Australia. She is currently undergoing a degree in psychology in the heart of the city and loves riding the train everywhere. When she isn't studying she writes on her beloved typewriter and struggles in pilates classes. Her Twitter handle is @livppoetry.

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 Uriah Howard Allis, a twenty-year-old poet from rural Western New York, has found pieces of his heart, mind, and soul escaping to the blank page ever since he could hold a pencil. When he officially reached his “twenties,” he began to gladly slip into rhyme and meter, and whatever lies beyond. 

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Ashley Amber is a 26-year-old upcoming author who calls Boston home. Whether it was her first picture book that she entered in a Reading Rainbow contest at 9 years old, loads of fanfiction as a teenager, or her own novels, Ashley has always been writing. When she's not writing, she's making videos on Youtube as an "Authortuber." Ashley is currently expanding her writing credentials while she seeks a home in publishing for her LGBTQ book series.

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Ozioma Aneke is a 19-year-old Nigerian boy who loves to write and stare at random people, imagining totally random things about them. He lives and writes from Enugu, a snoozy city in Nigeria, with vibrant, swanky nightlife. He writes stories, too, and laughs at them—alone. He’s never been published; this is a bold, uncertain step of his.

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Arundhathi Anil is an English Literature student at the University of York, UK. Her poem Silence was recently published in the 2020 Poetry Marathon Anthology. Her poetry has also appeared in several online poetry blogs, social media platforms and her own personal blog.

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Rox Applesmith (they/them, 22) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Seattle, WA. You can keep up with them on Twitter or Medium.

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Martina Argudo is an Ecuadorian writer who enjoys transforming daydreams into stories. Sixteen years old, she is also a list-maker, a ballet dancer, and a space enthusiast. Woven with her narratives, readers can find her culture, her ambitions, and the cups of red tea that have seen her through countless drafts and edits.

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Mel Arthur (she/they) is a 19yr, black poet from Virginia. She has been writing for many years but only recently began to submit her work for publication. She is fascinated with the power of words & their usage and is interested in exploring all forms of poetic structures and forms. They believe poetry to be their eternal companion & hope to write works that touch the soul and paint wondrous images in the mind of anyone who reads them .

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Zoha Arif will graduate from the Academy for Information Technology in the spring of 2021. She lives in the lands of Union, New Jersey and melts away her free time breathing peanut butter, eating books, drowning in questionable food science experiments, chasing squirrels, pondering computer science, and saturating her muses into her works of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her work has been published in Polyphony Lit, the Blue Marble Review, Parallax Literary, and others.

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Shireen Arora is a 12 year-old sixth grader from Arizona, USA. In her free time, you can always find her exploring various art forms such as painting, calligraphy, writing poetry, playing the piano, and learning Indian classical dance.

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Kayla Arroyo is a 16 year old high school student from Staten Island. She usually expresses her feelings in long rants but has been increasingly taking an interest in poetry and writing.

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Lujain Assaf is a nineteen year old fiction writer from Palestine. Her work has previously been nominated for the Media and Research Awards 2020 and Northwestern University's Creative Arts Festival 2020. In addition, she has published her piece, The Lucky One, with 2020vision. She is currently studying at Northwestern University in Qatar and continues to write.

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Kiara Azuma is a high school student from California. She has been writing from a young age, participating in numerous writing contests and submissions, to expand her writing skills. Kiara is currently working on a novel with hopes to become traditionally published. Outside of reading and writing, she enjoys watching shows on Netflix and spending time with her family.

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Navya Bahl (she/her) is a 17 year old senior from New Delhi, India. An incorrigible dreamer, when she isn't weaving stories from myths and lores, that may, or may not, be infused with magic, she can be found reading yet another book, baking something disastrous or crying over her schoolwork. Her writing has been recognized and published by the Scholastic Quill Club, and her recent works are featured or forthcoming in Love Letters Mag and Scenecerityzine, among others.

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Rithesh Balu is from Bangalore, India. He’s an engineering student in the field of computer sciences. He’s a person that believes that everything we do is an art, starting from the way we live to the way we die, hence the name of his Instagram handle - 21 ART. He finds ways to express his love for art through playing musical instruments such as the piano and guitar, singing, drawing, painting and writing poetry. He believes that life loses its meaning without art and that everybody needs to at least acknowledge if not create art.

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Sophia Bannister works at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Her work is featured and forthcoming in Prometheus Dreaming, Drunk Monkeys, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, Poetry Online and Crack the Spine.

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Bharti Bansal is a 24 year old poet from India. She has been published in magazines like aaduna, harness magazine, Oc87recoverydiaries.org and others. She loves moon, universe, stars and cats. She can be reached at instagram @bharti_b42.

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Fabiana Barrientos is fifteen years old and attends the International School of Beaverton. She turned to poetry after a near-fatal accident and often writes about the inescapable nature of time's arrow. Her difficult past and fear of dying are recurring themes in her poetry, her way of dealing with the weight of her past and her future.

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Jolie Barnard, a sixteen year old amateur writer from Sacramento California, hasn’t always loved writing. Up until a few years ago, she much preferred reading poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and whatever else you could think of. She has since turned to writing, usually poetry, as a way to vent and document her life.

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Faith Barnes is a 15 year old from Nevada, Missouri. She enjoys reading stories and writing poems. With her first poem published, she hopes to inspire teenagers like her to stand up for themselves. She’s and advocate for selling the idea that no one is normal and we should all be confident with who we truly are.

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Tamara Bašić (24; she/her) lives in Croatia, where she is frequently thinking about all the stories she's procrastinating on writing. She can also often be found reading, trying to become a polyglot, staring at the sky in awe, and viciously daydreaming. Her work is featured in Journal of Erato, Southchild Lit, The Birdseed, and The Hearth Magazine. For more writings and updates, you can find her on social media @authortamarab

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Sean Beatty is a poet from Raleigh, NC. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill where he completed an Honors Poetry Thesis, and is currently working on a M.S. in Physiology at the University of Louisville. His poems have been published in Burning Jade Magazine, The Daily Drunk, Figure 1, and CP Quarterly. Follow him on Twitter @seanw0ww.

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Savannah Behr is a sixteen-year-old from San Francisco, CA. She loves reading and writing and wants to be a journalist, to tell the stories of real people and make a difference, as well as an author.

 

Becky Bei is a writer from Singapore, where she is studying in secondary school.

 

Belle is a teen writer and poet who enjoys reading and digital editing. She is in the process of writing her first novel and poetry book. You can find more of her writing on Instagram @unimaginabelle.

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Clueless, the twenty-three year old Shannia Bernal is still cautiously traversing this phase of life called adulthood. She always panics but she finds peace by meditating the Word and having intimate conversations with loved ones. One thing she loves about her country, the Philippines, is how the sun looks dreamy and nostalgic, inspiring her to daydream and write (although the heat can get in the way sometimes).

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Saumya Bhardwaj is from Maharashtra, Thane. She is 15 years old and currently studying in standard 10th. During her study breaks she loves to read and write. She has been writing poetry since 4th standard.

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Janya Bhaskar is sixteen and a high school student in Northern California. She published her debut novel, The Fall Of A God, in the summer of 2020. She loves to write dark adventure and fantasy fiction. She is editing her collection of short stories and is writing her next fiction trilogy. She enjoys reading about advances in biological research and space.

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Anvita Bhogadi is a 13-year-old Indian-American who is passionate about activism and literature. Her interests include, aesthetic photography, graphic designing, article writing, reading, discovering new artists on Spotify, trying to learn new languages and indecisively browsing through Netflix. She aspires to be a published poet.

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Paul Bianco is an eighteen year old from New York. He enjoys reading and writing as hobbies, but he dedicates most of his free time to computer science and baking. This is his first submission to a magazine.

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Eleanor May Blackburn is a 23 year old actor/writer from Sheffield in England and has been previously published in GLOBALISATION: THE SPHERE KEEPS SPINNING anthology by Making Magic Happen Press and Southchild Lit’s Issue 2.

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Paisley Blue finds solace under the stars and sun alike, and sees the universe as a miracle. When they're not writing, you can find them drawing, singing, and daydreaming. They have works published in Gossamer Lit, Cathartic Youth Lit, and Write The World. They'd like you to look around and find one beautiful thing, right this moment!

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Asawari Bhatia a.k.a Ash is a 23 year old bi poet and writer from India. She has contributed to over eight poetry anthologies, including Train River Publishing. Recently, completed her post-graduation in Medical Microbiology, she is now on a journey to manifest all beautiful things she can be. You can always find her lost in her own company but is always ready to provide help. A cloud admirer who believes that one should always listen to their gut and to Universe.

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Dia Bhojwani is a sophomore living in Mumbai, India. She's been published in Beetle Literary Magazine, The Punch Magazine, and Parallax Literary Magazine, amongst others. Her first book, The Pandemic Diaries, was published in January 2021. She loves confessional poetry, stand-up comedy, and Hawaiian pizza.

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Yasmine Bolden is a Pushcart Prize and Scholastic American Voices nominated Black American poet and author based in Virginia. Her work has appeared in Perhappened Magazine, Write the World Review, and Ghost Heart Literary Journal among others. At heart, she's still the voracious reader who talked her way into getting more than the five book limit from her elementary school library. You can find out more about her on Twitter @blkpunningpoet and on Instagram @blackpunningpoet.

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Srina Bose is a high school student hailing from New Delhi, India. She has previously published her collection of poetry titled “Roses In My Mind”, which is commercially available. She plans to pursue liberal arts in her future.

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Molly Bovett is a developing poet and novelist from rural Devon, England, currently splitting time between a medieval history degree and creative projects. Her poems are often themed around her queer identity, family, and the environment – and are often written with the help of excessive coffee and an endearingly lazy cat.

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Skye Bowdon is a 15 year old poet from Santa Fe New Mexico. She is a Creative Writing major at New Mexico School for the Arts. Her work had been published in Dreams of Montezuma, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose New Mexico School for the Arts. Skye was a silver key medalist in the 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 

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Leah Boxley (she/they) is a 26 year old poet from southern New Mexico. She is the co-founder of Blackwick Writers Guild based in Longmont, Colorado, which protects and fosters writing of LGBTQ+ writers of all genres and skill levels. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her daughter who is the coolest thing she’s ever made.

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Daniel Boyko is a 17-year-old writer from New Jersey. His work appears in Teen Ink, Blue Marble Review, The Daphne Review, and Navigating the Maze, among others. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Polyphony Lit. Wherever his dog is, he can’t be far behind.

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Jayda Brain is a high school student living near Sydney, Australia. While she's not dealing with jokes about her surname, Jayda likes to read and care for her plants, but doesn't do either enough. She is 15 years old.

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Natasha Bredle is an aspiring young writer and poet. Her work has been featured in the Dove Tales Writing for Peace poetry anthology, the Cathartic Literary Magazine, and the Incandescent Review, among others. She volunteers as an arts writer for the INKspire online news magazine. When she isn't dreaming up new ideas to passionately scribble down, she likes to practice yoga and indulge in various kinds of tea. She posts updates of her publications on her instagram, @natasha_bredle

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Niki Brennan is a writer and poet from Glasgow, Scotland. His recent publications are in or upcoming in Fahmidan Journal, Sledgehammer and the Kalopsia Lit Journal. He hopes everyone reading this has also managed to find hope in the pandemic.

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Gregory Brooks is a psychology student at Utah Valley University. He loves learning about how writing can improve our mental health, and help individuals understand their own story. You can find more of his work at gregbrookspoetry.wordpress.com, or @bipolar_greg on Twitter.

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A. E. Brown is a fifteen-year-old high school sophomore from Northern California. She believes the written word to be a critical part of activism and hopes to use poetry to advocate for her community in the future. Her work has previously been published in The Weight Journal. She recently experienced off-roading for the first time, and hopes to experience it in the future, only next time on purpose. When not writing, she can be found playing with her guinea pig, climbing Mount Lassen, and hanging around old barns with friends.

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Dakota Bruderman is a fourteen year old girl who is in ninth grade at Friends Academy on Long Island, New York. She enjoys writing about topics that she is passionate about, both through formal writing and through more creative approaches. She dislikes when people treat her as if she is insignificant, and she believes that young people can make a difference in the world. Dakota's goal is to positively impact other people's lives, whether by bringing a smile to their face or by letting them know that they are not alone. Some of her hobbies include skating, painting, and reading. If her submission is accepted, Dakota hopes that her writing will encourage others to share their voice as well.

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Katherine Buerke is an avid reader and writer who enjoys spending time with family and friends. She aspires to become a novelist and travel around the world.

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Cassidy Bull is a twenty-year-old writer and poet from Tampa, Florida. In 2021, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University with degrees in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Political Science. She has a short story appearing in Hobart.

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Leia Butler is an experimental poet in her final year studying creative writing at UEA. She is a winner of the 2019 Streetcake experimental writing prize. She has been published most recently in Streetcake, Re-side, and The Babel Tower Notice Board. Leia also co-edits Full House Literary Magazine.

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Alida C. is a fifteen-year-old author and aspiring poet from Hungary. She enjoys reading, taking walks, gothic literature, and gloomy weather. She hopes to be published one day. Her poem, “For Lenore”, is a sort of continuation of the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. She can be found on Instagram under the handle @ncvcrmcre.

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Lucy Camacho is a 17 year old writer from Costa Rica with a deep love for poetry, superheroes and reading about fantasy worlds

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CJ Caparros is a 17-year-old, Filipino-American writer from California. They enjoy writing about their passions: chess, kitchens, fruit, and fungi. They hope to move others with their writing, in any way they can.

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Francesca McDonnell Capossela is a poet and writer, with a Master’s in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. Her poetry has been published in Hanging Loose Magazine, Banshee, Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, and The Cormorant Broadsheet, and her essays have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point Magazine, and on VICE.com. She has also contributed an essay to a forthcoming anthology, Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). Francesca is 24 and is from Brooklyn. Follow her on Twitter: @CheskaFranny.

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E.J. Carnegie (they/them) is a seventeen-year-old poet and author from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Aside from being a high school senior and full time barista, E.J. is a poetry editor for Ink Sounds and has work in The Weight Journal, Celestite Poetry, and others. Find more of them on Twitter, @ejcarnegie13.

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Naomi Carr is a seventeen-year-old student from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has found a home in creative nonfiction, and her work has been featured in Blue Marble Review and is forthcoming in grain of salt mag. When she isn't writing, Naomi enjoys long walks through parks and indie music.

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Regina Cassese is a queer writer from Michigan. You can find her work in places such as the literary journal Fledge, The Rust & Moth, as well as Interlochen Arts Academy's literary journals The Red Wheelbarrow and The Interlochen Review. She eats peanut butter when she’s sad and falls asleep wherever she goes.

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Brishti Chakraborty (she/her) is a chronically ill 17 year old lesbian living in India. Her work appears in Fahmidan Journal, FEED Magazine, Fairy Piece Mag, and elsewhere. Find her @brishti_writes on Twitter and @brishtiiii on Instagram.

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Debadrita Chakraborty is from Calcutta, India. She enjoys playing video games and psychoanalyzing people way too much.

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Sena Chang is a 14-year-old musician, poet, and artist living in Japan. In addition to writing poetry related mainly to her Asian heritage and Kafkaesque scenarios, Chang is the EIC of The Pandemic of ‘19 Anthology. There, she seeks to give a voice to Tokyo's youth through creative writing and other mediums of art. Her most recent works have appeared or are forthcoming in Raised Brow Press and The International Educator, amongst others.

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Sarah Chaudry is a fifteen-year-old sophomore in Queens, New York. She enjoys reading and writing more than anything in the world, aside from watching Marvel movies and coming up with ideas for short stories and poetry. Sarah has work published on Cathartic Literary Magazine as well as aspires to publish a novel (or two) of her own.

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Elise Siregar Chen is currently a 12th grader. She loves English literature and enjoys writing poems and short stories, drawing and filmmaking.

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Ray Cheng is a 16-year-old high school junior from Kuwait City, Kuwait. His work has been recognized by numerous publications including Dialogue & Discourse, HOPE Humanities Journal, and Illumination. He is an alumnus of the Kenyon Young Writers' Workshop. Aside from writing, he finds solace in gazing out on the skylines of Kuwait City. He thinks you're wonderful.

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Rita Chernikova is a writer from Wicklow, Ireland. She writes in two languages, English and Russian, but hopes that French will become her third linguistic funnel for thoughts in the future. When she isn't fanatically hitting the keys of her laptop she likes to record music, dance or do whacky art with bird feathers.

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Lauren Hyunseo Cho is a 17-year old girl from South Korea (pronouns: she/her). Lauren has always found herself in a balancing act of sorts: attempting to balance modernity with tradition, Korean culture with American, femininity with societal expectations. In navigating her identity, she has developed a passion for issues of cultural discrimination, feminism, and philosophy. Her love for writing serves to produce poems of her take on these ideas, stemming from her personal experiences as well as her holistic views and metaphorical interpretations.

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Michael Cho is a high school Sophomore from New Jersey. He loves to write, play football, and spend hours practicing new moves in jiu jitsu.

 

Kate K. Choi is a high school senior living in Seoul, South Korea. Her writing has been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, among others. Additionally, she has work published or forthcoming in Diode Poetry Journal, Body Without Organs, The Hearth Magazine, After Dinner Conversation, and more. Besides writing, her passions include dark chocolate, neuroscience, and classic rock. She is currently seventeen years old.

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Caroline Chou is a high schooler from Maryland. When she’s not writing, you can find her playing golf, rewatching animated movies, or adding more books to her “To Be Read” list.

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Anuva Chowdhury (she/they) is a high school student from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is sixteen and searching, exploring her identity through writing. She writes stories about queer Muslims finding their way.

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Glen Chung's passions are playing hokey, attending environmental marches with his friends in NYC, and writing in his free time!

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Alira Lee Cohen is 18 years old. They've had a passion for writing and story- telling ever since Alira was a young child; it is what makes me feel alive, especially in uncertain times such as these. On top of working on comics, short stories, poems, and essays, Alira enjoys reading, taking care of my pets, and going on long walks. Alira believes that it is important for young writers of all kinds to make their voices heard... if we all take the time to sit down and listen to what our fellow humans have to say, the world will be a better place.

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Lilia Collins is a seventh grade student at Hope Academy. She lives in Concord, North Carolina and is 12 years old. She loves photography and just recently found out she has a passion for poetry.

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Evelyn Combs is a sixteen-year-old from Norman Oklahoma. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, listening to music, and learning about animals.

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Aoife Connolly is a twenty year old writer from Galway, Ireland. She is currently studying Creative Writing at NUI Galway. Her work has previously been published in The Galway Advertiser Voxgalvia.

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Chloe Cook is an undergraduate student attending Northern Kentucky University. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the student-run literary magazine, Loch Norse Magazine. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Haunted Waters Press, Oakland Arts Review, Sutterville Review, dancing girl press, Stoneboat Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She is 21 years old and resides in the NKY region.

 

Isabel Corson is a high school student from South Carolina. She is 16 years old and enjoys writing, drawing, and attempting other artistic endeavors. She is passionate about expressing opinions and emotions through art.

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Alexis Crafts (she/her) is a twenty-year-old university student from Massachusetts. She is a part of her school's literary magazine Persona as the social media manager and editor. When not writing poetry, she loves to read YA lit, blog, and indulge in hours of Youtube content of every genre. You can find her and more of her writing on Twitter @crafts_writing.

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Leopold Crow (he/they) is a sixteen year old trans artist from England. He can generally be found spouting nonsense about angels, making bad (fantastic) puns and doodling all over his schoolwork. More of his work can be found at https://leopold-crow.carrd.co

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Adeline Cruz is based in Minnesota, braving the long, bitter winters with the help of her trusted yaktrax. She has previously written for the National Parks Service, has work published or forthcoming in Grand Little Things, Penumbra, and The Pointed Circle. When she isn’t composing poetry, you might find her whipping up a new recipe or meandering through a state park.

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Zoe Cunniffe is an 18-year-old poet and singer-songwriter from Washington, DC. She has previously been published in literary journals such as Meniscus and The Showbear Family Circus, and she can be found on Instagram at @there.are.stillbeautifulthings.

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Isabella Dail is 16 years old and lives in New Jersey. She has won Scholastic Gold and Silver Keys, and her work can be found in places like Rare Byrd Review and The WEIGHT Journal. In her spare time, Isabella loves reading poetry anthologies, learning French, and avidly consuming iced coffee.

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Jessica Daniel is a Malayali-American student with a strong passion for tea and music. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in The Augment Review, Misery Tourism, and Crashtest Magazine. She is sixteen years old.

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Jordan Davidson is a 17-year-old student and writer from Denver, Colorado. She has been recognized nationally and a 2021 YoungArts Merit winner in novel, and has upcoming work in Cathartic Literary Magazine and Corvid Queen. In addition to writing, she enjoys singing with her acapella group and treble choir.

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Mia Davis is a 16-year-old Junior located in San Diego, California. Through writing - whether it be creative writing, poetry, songwriting, or journalism - she finds artistic freedom, enthralled by the process of constructing captivating stories of impact. She is the co-president of her school's Creative Writing Club, is a writer for the Affair Magazine, and has received awards, such as Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, for her craft.

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Melinda Deng is 14 and from New Jersey. She enjoys writing fiction and other random topics.

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Vibhavari Desai (she/her) is a 20-year-old student from India. She is a new writer, who struggles to strike a balance between schoolwork and her voracious appetite for words. She loves her cat to the point of distraction.

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Sanjyokta 'Yukta' Deshmukh is a twenty-one year old, Welsh-Indian writer and artist currently studying her Masters. She has previously been published in both print and online in the likes of Eclectica Magazine, Ayaskala, Ghost Heart Literary, Street Cake Magazine, The Orange Blush Zine, and more. You can follow her here: @sanjdeshk.

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Laxana Devaraj, aged 25 years, is a recent law graduate living in Sri Lanka. She likes to write and read poetry.

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SaraJane Devereaux is a 16-year-old writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. Her hobbies include reading, writing, and creating art. SaraJane plans to attend college (undecided where) when she graduates high school and she plans to study English. SaraJane wants to go onto become an author of books, prose, and maybe even screenplays! Her number one goal is to become a New York Times Bestselling Author.

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Kathryn Dew is a seventeen-year-old non-binary lesbian writer from Pittsburgh, who has been published by Always Naive Zine, The WEIGHT Journal, and Noctivagant Press. They are a staff member for BatCat Press and Spillover Mag, who primarily writes poems and prose. They live with their family, two dogs, and two cats. When they’re not writing, Kathryn is a self-proclaimed history buff who is interested in studying psychology.

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This poem was written by Riya Dey, who is currently graduating in History, from the University of Delhi, India. Residing in Kolkata, India, she is mostly found reading novels and fulfilling her appetite through sweet eatables and watching k-drama.

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Siya Dhamija is a 16 year old simple girl who lives in beautiful country India. She finds happiness and solace in writing. She is a selenophile and believes in carpediem.

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Shivi Dixit is an Indian student, aged 16. She currently writes short horror stories and poems as a hobby. Using the power of words, she aspires to create something that makes people feel a million emotions, one at a time.

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Ilana Drake is a first-year student at Vanderbilt University from New York. Her work has appeared nationally in Ms. Magazine and YR Media, among others. Ilana has won numerous Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for her work. She previously was a mentee in Girls Write Now for three years, and she served on the New York City Department of Education’s Chancellor’s Student Advisory Council. When Ilana is not writing, she can be found advocating for social justice or trying new coffee shops.

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Ysabel Dungca is a 23-year old Filipino writer who is currently based in Australia. She has a passion for musical theatre, art, and exploring the liminal space between the two cultures she grew up in.

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Amelia Durbin is a 12-year-old in Northampton, Massachusetts. She lives with her Mom, Dad, little sister, and a wonderful but very energetic dog, Roux. She loves to read, write, make clay jewelry and animals, along with play and listen to music. She is also very interested in the topic of climate change and annoys her friends and family to death with new facts, ideas and decisions. She mainly writes poetry and fiction but decided she'd give climate non-fiction a try.

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Trisha Dutta is a 17 year old from Kolkata, India who is currently a highschool junior studying Science. She has been drawn to literature and the pure sciences ever since she was a toddler and she keeps having weird ideas which she occasionally likes to write down. She is your typical nerdy coffee addict and when she is not poring over books, you'll likely find her travelling, exploring her city, trying out new cuisines and pretty much living a literary dystopia.

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Aleah Dye (she/her) primarily writes poetry—usually about morbidity, love, mental illness, and philosophy. She hopes to make hearts grow three sizes with her words. She is a 2020 Best of the Net nominee and the graphic designer for perhappened. Read her latest work via Pen and Anvil Press.

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Makenna Dykstra (she/her) is currently a graduate student pursuing an MA in English Literature at Tulane University in New Orleans. She can often be found on Twitter @makdykstra or in the local parks, writing, reading, or admiring the oak trees.

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Mason Earle is a high school senior in New York City.

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Viktoria Elessar is 12 years old and lives in the United States. She is very inspired by fellow poet and friend Em Wilder, and they write together often. She loves reading and finds solace in her writing, though there is nothing she loves more than spending quality time with her friends and family.

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Del Elizabeth is a 17-year-old queer writer from California. She indulges in poetry often, but has recently started on her second novel and first screenplay. In the future, she hopes to attend university to study creative writing as well as psychology. Her work has been published in Anatolios Magazine & Paper Crane Journal + is upcoming in both Cathartic Lit and Miniskirt Magazine.

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Halle Ewing (they/she) is a 14-year-old from Orange County with a love for the written word. She finds herself reflected in the lines she writes, and when they aren't frantically trying to remember that one word on the tip of their tongue, they're drinking way too much coffee, screaming along to Nirvana, playing water polo, or begging their friends to take pictures of them. Her work can be found in Paper Cranes Literary Journal, Crossed Paths, Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine, and the Weight Journal.

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Roseanne Fahey is a twenty-one year old student from Offaly, Ireland. She studies Creative Writing in the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her poetry and prose have been published or are forthcoming in The Five-Two, Voxgalvia, In Parenthesis, and The Rainbow Poems.

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Farzeen is 16 years old and she is a Pakistani girl born and raised in Canada. She started writing poetry when she was 15 years old, however, in quarantine, she’s been sharpening up her skills more than ever. She has written over 85 poems, topic ranging from her personal experiences, to the flaws in our modern society. Her biggest dream is to publish an anthology poetry book, in other words, she wants to publish a collection of all her poems she wrote when she was a teenager. Alongside an author, she also desires to become a family doctor, to fulfill her childhood dream of pursuing a career in medicine. She is also the creator of a nonprofit organization, the Kindness Worldwide Movement. She is also the writer of the Kindness Worldwide Movement blog, which is an extension to the organization. 

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Anna Feng is a sixteen year old student attending Del Norte High School in San Diego, California. She loves listening to true crime podcasts and curating her collection of tiny cacti. She is a 2021 California Arts Scholar and Iowa Young Writers Workshop student. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards and the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest.

Trini Feng is a high school sophomore. Born and raised in the quiet suburbs of Illinois, she likes to explore stories both mundane and fantastical. Her work has previously been published in The WEIGHT Journal, BLANK Magazine, and Hypernova Lit. In her free time, she dabbles in music, video games, and obscure deep dives on the Internet.

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Isabella Fiore (she/they) is an eighteen year-old writer who chronicles her experiences through love, sadness, and figuring out what it means to be a queer "woman" in her world. Her publications include Heartburn Review and Velvet Fields Magazine. When she is not writing, Isabella can be found baking, napping, or wrapping herself in a blanket like a burrito.

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Eileen Fletcher is a 13 year old girl who is passionate for art, sports, gardening, and reading. She takes piano classes and practices different forms of art in her free time. She loves nature and wildlife, and enjoys spending time with friends and family.

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Morgan Flodman is a 16-year-old writer from Cherry Valley, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Apprentice Writer, The Augment Review, Blue Marble Review, and Kalopsia Literary Journal among others. Additionally, Morgan has been honorably recognized by the International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. When she's not overanalyzing her drafts, Morgan strives to help fellow young writers explore their craft and promote literary arts in her community. Keep up with her endeavors on Instagram (@morganflodmanwrites) and Twitter (@morganfwrites).

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Emily Frost is a 16-year-old student and writer from the DC area. She edits with Polyphony Lit and the Lumiere Review. Her writing has been published in BLANK Magazine and recognized by the Interlochen Center for the Arts. You can find her on Twitter @saidemilyfrost.

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Maggie Fulmer is 26-year-old, emerging writing from Kentucky with a passion for poetry and creative nonfiction. She received her BA in journalism and MA in English from Northern Kentucky University. Her work has been featured in Atlas+Alice, Dime Show Review, and The Coil. She can be found on most corners of the internet (@mfulms21) talking about boybands, books, and reality television.

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Gabrielle Galchen is a senior at the High School of American Studies in NYC. She is an avid writer and enjoys exploring different styles and subject matter. Her inspirations are primarily authors Fernando Pessoa and Sylvia Plath, as well as musicians like Neil Young.

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Alejandra Galvan is a 17 year old writer who lives in Los Angeles, California. When she learned how to read, she became obsessed with fantasy books and developed an extremely vivid imagination. She often goes hiking or on outdoor explorations and pretends she is on an extraordinary adventure. While on these quests, she found her love for the sky and the stars and spends her free time studying the universe.

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Xiao Gan is from Singapore. She enjoys writing and math.

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Vrinda Gandhi is an eighteen year old literature enthusiast from India. She has work forthcoming/in Overachiever magazine, Hooligan magazine and currently is a personal essay writer for the Outlander Zine. She loves street food, vanilla candles and wishes to travel and write stories about obscure experiences of people.

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Liv Gamble is a 26-year-old lesbian writer from the UK, particularly passionate about writing that includes and celebrates LGBT+ themes. She holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Creative Writing, and as well as poetry, she writes fiction, pop culture articles and opinion pieces. She's currently working on her third novel-length piece.

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Nerea García-Rodríguez is 16 years old and is from Andalucía, Spain. She is a young artist that likes to write and act. She's currently assisting an acting school but she'd like to be a poet in the future so she writes as much as she can.

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Catherine Garrett (they/she) is a bisexual powerhouse who puts their considerable passion to poetry and reporting, and getting other people to write their bios for her. She is 24 years old and is from Haida Gwaii, B.C. They’ve competed on three Victoria slam teams and one Vancouver slam team, and was an ApocaCIPS finalist of 2020. They can be found drinking beer, and yelling about hockey on twitter. Her numerous publications include Moria, Room, Sky Island Journal, Oraotrealis, Turnpike, and Cotyledon. They will bring a lot of complicated enthusiasm on such topics as family, death, and doing what you love.

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Emma Geller is a poet, singer, and actress from Boston, MA. She is 24 years old. Her many passions include horror movies and listening to Elliot Smith while drinking too much coffee. Her work has been published in The Offering & Goat's Milk Magazine. You can find out more about Emma on Instagram at em_me_line.

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Peniel Gifted is a seventeen-year-old Nigerian poet and writer. She has great enthusiasm for reading, writing and learning. She's also an adroit lover of nature and God's word. Her works have appeared in Oke Iroegbu's diary of Hope and Nostalgia, Cultural Weekly Magazine, Lion and Lilac Magazine, Otherwise Engaged Journal, Written Tales and elsewhere. She's the author of the Living BY HIS WORD Series

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Julia Ginsbach is 18 years old, a student, poet, and self-described baking enthusiast from Wisconsin (United States). She loves writing, eating pie, and also cows.

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Jaden Goldfain is a nineteen-year-old Coloradoan pursuing a B.A. in Writing from Point Loma Nazarene University. Her work has appeared in Blue Marble Review, Bridge Ink, Foreshadow Magazine, and elsewhere. She loves Jesus, her friends, and Stranger Things. Twitter: @j_goldfain

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Kyrah Gomes is a 18 year old student living in NYC who loves poetry, literature, fashion, and authentic self-expression. Her work has been published in Cathartic Literary Magazine, Serenity Zine, and other online publications.

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Maria Gray is a 22-year-old poet from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Maine. Her work is published in Counterclock Journal, Hominum Journal, Perhappened Magazine, The Foundationalist, and others. In 2021, she was named as an Adroit Prizes for Poetry semifinalist for her poem "Where Were You When Mac Miller Died." Find her at mariagray.carrd.co.

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Praniti Gulyani is a seventeen year old girl from India.

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Aida Guo is a 16 year old junior student in North Carolina, where she is the Editor-in-Chief of her school news site and school literary magazine. She loves teaching and talking with kids whether it be through art classes or at English tutoring sessions. She's involved in volleyball clubs and working towards environmental justice. In her free time, you can find her listening to indie and kpop music, cooking and baking food for her friends, and keeping thoughts in her diary.

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Antara Gupta (she/her) is a 21-year-old queer Indian writer currently studying in Canada. She has been writing since she was ten years old, focusing on creative non-fiction but with a healthy dose of fantasy mixed in. When she is not writing, you can find her behind a book, knitting, coding, or throwing impromptu dance parties.

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Caroline Hall (they/she) is a sapphic writer from Connecticut. Her work has been a finalist in two New York Times poetry contests and a runner-up in Connecticut Student Writers. They enjoy journaling, drinking tea, caring for their plants, and
studying biology.

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Natalie Hampton is a rising junior at the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in the Creative Writing Department. She has been recognized at the National level of the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition and by the Harris County Department of Education, the Young Poets Network, the Pulitzer Center, and Ringling College of Art and Design. She serves as an editor at Polyphony Lit and Cathartic Literary Magazine. She has taken online workshops and classes with Iowa, Brown, Sewanee, and Ellipsis Writing.

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Zinnia Hansen is a seventeen-year-old high school student and poet from Port Townsend, Washington. She has a tendency towards abstraction, but a deep love of the idiosyncrasies that make us human. Her work has been published through the Young Writers Project, and she is a participant in The Hugo House Young Writers Cohort.

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Pragnya Haralur is a poet and writer from South India. She enjoys chess and unconventional forms of poetry and hopes you are having a good day.

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Genevieve Hartman is a Korean American poet based in upstate New York. She is the Director of Development & Communications for BOA Editions & reads poetry for VIDA Review. Her poems & reviews have been published in Brushfire, Stone Canoe, Meniscus Journal, EcoTheo, Singapore Unbound, & others. She is twenty-two. Find her reading or buying another plant, & follow her on Instagram at @gena_hartman.

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Maya Henry (she/her) is a queer poet trying to be a better human being. She's based in California and is 14.

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Camila Hernández is a 19-year-old Venezuelan-born, Yorkshire-bound poet and student journalist. Her literary, art, and film reviews have appeared in the University of York's Nouse student newspaper and on the student-run Norman Rea Gallery's online blog. Her poetry has also been featured in The Looking Glass anthology. She is interested in the cross-pollination of inner and outer landscapes of the self and nature, and how modern and postcolonial visions intersect to show us colours and contours that we'd never dreamt could define us.

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Jasmine Herri is a 17 year-old writer from Seattle, WA, who dedicates her free time to her literary and artistic works. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Novelly, Penit, and the YMCA. Jasmine's passion for writing is fueled by her aspiration to spread literary joy to the world.

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Maia Hillock-Katz was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and still lives there today. She is currently a 15-year-old sophomore at New Mexico School for the Arts, where she is majoring in creative writing. Maia has been published in Dreams of Montezuma 2 and has won multiple gold and silver regional awards from the Scholastic Art and Writing program. You can find her running through arroyos, writing poetry and geeking out over compost.

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Emily Hizny is an 18 year old Creative Writing and Publishing & Editing double major at Susquehanna University with a home state of New Jersey. Her work is featured in SU's Summer Writers Workshop Anthology as well as the upcoming edition of SU's literary magazine RiverCraft. In her free time you can find her sewing, playing video games, and being a part-time octopus.

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Fefe Ho is a 23-year-old Chinese-American currently residing in Beijing. Find her on Twitter at @fefedove.

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Mikaela (Miki) Hoe is a biracial seventh grader from Woodinville, Washington. She typically writes in spoken word form about the BLM movement and her struggles with mental health. She mostly performs in her school district but recently competed at the "WE SPEAK" contest at the Edmonds Center For The Arts where she was an alternate. When not writing you can find her drawing eyes, doing extra school work, dancing ballet, or playing with her pets.

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Sophia Holme (23, she/her) is a poet, writer and bookseller made in Canada but now based in Oxford, England. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southchild Lit, Not Deer Magazine and elsewhere. In her spare time, she enjoys running, reading bits of several novels at once and drinking a lot of coffee. Find her on Twitter @HolmeSophia

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Caroline Hsu, 20, is a second year student at UCLA studying Political Science. Hailing from Las Vegas, Nevada, she has always had a passion for creative writing and prose. Some day, she hopes to finally catch up on sleep, self publish her own book or novel, and travel the world. You can find her at @carolinehsuwrites on Instagram.

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Matt Hsu (17) is a junior at San Francisco University High School in San Francisco, California. He works as a poetry/prose editor at Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine and The Formula. Currently he's working on a YA novel about a lonely assassin. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and eating dark chocolate.

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Ivi Hua is a teen dreamer, writer, and poet based in the United States. She has a deep love for the sea and the sky, and you can find her @livia.writes.stories on Instagram. Her works have been published in Paper Crane Journal, Juven, and Outlander Zine among others.

 

Ellen Huang is a 25-year-old writer of fairy tales dark and light. She is living her best life in San Diego and is a huge advocate for the inspiration of progressive faith and the power of platonic love.

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Vivian Huang is a sixteen-year-old incoming junior from Irvine, California. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in The Lumiere Review, The Paper Crane Literary Journal, Detester Magazine, and The Road To Find Magazine. She has also been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. When she is not writing, she can be found watching old movies or advocating for social justice.

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Elyse Hwang is a writer from the Los Angeles area. She works for her school's literary magazine and has had her work recognized by the PTA's Reflection Contest. When not writing or musing about her future, you can find her wondering where her childhood has gone.

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Tiffany Ibanez is a high school student and is currently 17 years old. She is going to turn 18 on May 27th because Tiffany was born on May 27, 2004. She was not born in the United States, She was born in Lima Peru which is located in South America and borders Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil. Some hobbies she really enjoys are playing soccer and hanging out with her friends. Tiffany is bilingual and can speak two languages fluently and these languages are Spanish and English, even though she has studied French and Sign language she isn't very fluent in those languages, unlike English and Spanish. Tiffany has no siblings as she is an only child and has been able to enjoy the love of her parents all to herself. Tiffany in the future is really looking forward to going to college and being able to give back everything her parents provided for her.

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Cara Ianuale is a seventeen-year-old girl. She is the founder and president of the non-profit organization the Purpleprint, which seeks to uplift female and non-binary artists."

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Nora Ibrahim is an amateur writer from North Carolina. She is currently in high school and preparing for college.

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Indrakshi is a passionate writer who lives in Toronto, Canada. She is eager to change the world with her words, and never fails to find inspiration sitting in the marvel that is nature. She loves travelling, spending time exploring the Ice Lolly Review site, watching old movies, and lately, finding ways to help people during this pandemic. She also is eager to empower youth like her and has started her writing journey on Write the World. 

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Javeria Itezaz is a 13 year old poet from Lahore, Pakistan who has been writing for the last 4 years. She is an avid humanist and a dreamer who never believes that a dream is worth nothing fighting for.

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Samar Jain, 15, is a student of class 10 at Delhi Public School, Gurgaon and is passionate about Public Speaking, Artificial Intelligence, playing sports and making impactful videos, He is also an avid reader and writer, and has contributed to numerous newspapers, journals and magazines. Furthermore, he is a Tech-enthusiast, and has won several accolades in Debates, MUN's and Group discussions. Importantly he is a fervent environmentalist and a Philanthropist, and considers himself to be a lifelong humanitarian.

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Tanvi Jain is a 17-year-old living in India. She is the English Club president at her school. She spends her free time reading, writing and playing piano. Her work has been published in the Hindustan Times.

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Henley James is a young girl from Washington who lives with her chaotic family of seven- along with her dog and cats. She's an avid reader and writer who has a tendency to act out her scenes. Her dream is to help people in any way possible- preferably as an author.

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Nargis Jameel, a 21 year old, is a full-time dreamer, who is learning perspective. She lives in India and aspires to exist and be identified in this lost world. A bibliophile, she speaks in metaphors, escapes in her books and finds herself with pens and paintbrushes. The world often compels her to write. Seeks inner peace by exploring nature.

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Adrija Jana is a passionately creative writer based in India. She mostly creates poetry pieces based on her personal experiences as well as social issues she is passionate about. Her work mostly revolves around protest against period poverty, marital rape and advocating for freedom of choice, apart from emotional self-lived experiences. She is inspired by writers such as Margaret Mitchell and Rupi Kaur, as well as the minutiae of everyday life. Apart from being a writer, Adrija is also a Spoken Word Artist, Theatrecian, Filmmaker and creative researcher, and all her work is woven together by common themes. She believes that creative pieces that let the innate imperfection shine through truly touch hearts.

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Nicole Janney is a 25-year-old undergrad at Iowa State University pursuing a degree in creative writing and technical communication. She loves to write in a variety of genres and is currently working on her debut novel, taking breaks with romance novels and crocheting stuffed koalas.

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Jiah is quiet, or that's what most people who had briefly crossed paths with her would say. Being from a polluted metro city in India and having only four months left to turn 16, she gets her daily doses of delight from her puppy, evening walks, cray-cray friends, sunsets and art. In her opinion, anything and everything worth calling pretty is art; and she likes it as subjective as it comes. From words to brush strokes, eyeshadows to dance moves, musical notes to camera shutters and everything in between, she loves it all. She had always been passionate about literature but was too shy to do something about it until now. Little poems and story plots always infest her mind, making things all the more colorful! Feel free to be friends with her on Instagram @jjxaahh :)

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Minglu Jiang is a 17-year-old writer from Detroit, MI. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and has appeared in the Copperfield Review Quarterly and Voyage YA Journal. When she's not writing, she enjoys playing jazz bass and falling down research rabbit holes. You can find her ramblings on Twitter at @jiang_minglu.

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Srishti Jha is a freelance writer from New Delhi, India. Her interests lie in writing about the poetry of things, people and nature. She also writes short/flash fiction and reviews books, unpublished works of early career writers on her website srishcrits.blogspot.com. For reviews and her writings, connect with her on her instagram at @srishti_and_poetry_

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Sierra Jones is an eighteen year old college freshman at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee. Sierra has lived in Nashville all her life, and is thrilled to be studying social work and creative writing in her hometown. She has been writing for fun ever since she was a little girl, but didn't take it seriously until her sophomore year of high school. That same year, she took a creative writing class and read one of her poems at an open mic night. In her junior year, she won a Silver Key Scholastic Writing Award for flash fiction, and an Honorable Mention Scholastic Writing Award for poetry. Though her senior year of high school was cut short, Sierra still made the best of it by starting a creative writing club at her high school and winning her school's english and writing award. Sierra wants to be a family counselor, and incorporate creative writing and journaling therapy in her counseling, as well as become a successful author herself. She is currently working on writing a collection of flash fictions and short stories that she hopes will be published in the near future.

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