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 poetry collection 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, and WordUP! New York State Program Director. Her work is published in Aster Lit, The Interlochen Review, Eunoia Review, 1455 books, 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.
Poetry Editor
Chenyue Wang
Chenyue Wang is a poet from Beijing, China, currently a high school senior at Westover School. An alumna of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, she has published poems in Trampoline, Pictura Journal, Vagabond City, and DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, among others.
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
Ayesha Zeb
Ananya Upadhye is a writer who collects memories. She is currently studying comparative literature and creative writing. She works with experimental, hybrid, mixed-media, lyrical, and visual poetry, and is an alum of The Kenyon Young Writer's Workshop, The Iowa Young Writer's Studio, and The Sunhouse Summer Mentorship. In her free time, she can be found eating fruit out of wineglasses and lingering in forest glades. She loves stormy afternoons and the color of sea-green. You can find more of her memories @ananya_upadhye_ on Instagram.
Poetry Reader
Ion Brown
Ion Brown (they/them) is a 17-year-old poet, author, artist, and all-around creative from Oregon who firmly believes in trying everything at least once. They are the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Tangerine Literary, and work with a plethora of other magazines. They overuse parentheses, (everything comes with a bonus thought, you know?) and can usually be found in an oversized sweater with a tangerine in one pocket and too many ideas in the other.
Poetry Reader
Maia Mohsen
Maia Mohsen is a writer and occasionally an artist from Long Island, New York. Her writing has been recognized by the Walt Whitman Birthplace, 1455 Books, and the Moonstone Arts Center, amongst other places. She loves detailed things, thoughts that reflect the abstract, something that she hopes to convey through her poetry and prose. Thus, she has made it her goal to ponder over liminal spaces, the aftermath of time, war, and desolation. She has used such themes to help her find her literary voice. In her free time, she can often be found devouring her latest stack of books or having a staring contest with her plants, depending on the season.
Prose Reader
Ayesha Zeb
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.
Prose Reader
Aashi Shinde
Aashi Shinde is a junior in highschool living in the Bay Area, California. Her work has been published in the Siliconeer, a local Gen Z South Asian magazine, and Polyphony Literary's Queer Anthology Contest. When she isn't writing, you can find her drawing, reading, or trying to make sense of herself and the world around her.