Masthead
Editor-In-Chief & Founder
Alexis Wu
Alexis Wu (alexiswu.carrd.co) is a 14-year-old Chinese-American poet based in Long Island, NY. She is also a National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Medalist, author of ON DIRT, ON DEW, ON GRASS (FOR YOU), SUNHOUSE Summer Writing Mentorship poetry mentee under Divyasri Krishnan, NCTE Young Promising Writers First Class Distinction Award recipient, Newsletter Coordinator at Write Cause, WordUp! New York State Program Director, and co-editor-in-chief of her school magazine. Her work is published in Aster Lit, The Interlochen Review, Eunoia Review, 1455 books, CommuterLit, and Yin Literary, among others. She dreams of one day changing the world. Find her on Instagram @a.w.underthedeep.poetry.
Executive Editor
Amelia Chang
Amelia Chang is a Taiwanese American poet from Long Island, New York. She is the recipient of multiple Scholastic Awards and has work published/forthcoming in Marmalade Lit, manywor(l)ds, Yin Literary, Rivener Lit, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief and founder of the youth literary magazine Citron Lit. Amelia believes in the visceral power of words, and you can find her @a.melia.kat on Instagram.
Prose Editor
Kristen Lee
Kristen Lee is a writer from Herricks High School in Long Island, New York and the 2026-2027 Nassau County Teen Poet Laureate. She has been recognized by NCTE, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, and her work is published or forthcoming in The Shore, Polyphony Lit, and Apprentice Writer, among others. A sometime spoken word artist, she competed in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud Regional Finals. When she is not composing poetry or working on her historical fantasy novel, Kristen enjoys catching baseball games and cuddling her dog, Penthesilea.
Art Director
Catherine Lei
Catherine Lei is a Chinese American artist from Long Island, New York. She is a multi-time Scholastic Awards gold and silver key recipient and has had her art featured in the 2024 UN Ocean Day exhibition. You can find her @catlei0 on Instagram.
Poetry Reader
Maia Mohsen
Ayesha Zeb
Prose Reader
Ayesha Zeb is a Pakistani writer and prose editor based in Saudi Arabia. A student of English Linguistics, she works in both English and Urdu, editing for independent literary spaces and publishing her own writing on Substack. Her work has appeared in literary magazines, where she explores the delicate fractures of human emotion. She holds a profound reverence for language: she believes words are powerful enough to make someone's day or change someone entirely. As a prose editor, this conviction guides her every read. She approaches each submission with the care of ensuring that strong, truthful stories find their rightful audience. She is currently refining her own drafts, driven by a quiet ambition to build something lasting from scratch and leave a legacy in every language she touches.