Staff

Our Staff

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Casey McCarthy

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Ashdeep Kaur | Sydney Denham

COMMUNICATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER: Melody Rivas

COMMUNICATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: VACANT

DESIGN AND LAYOUT MANAGER: Ryan Yau

DESIGN AND LAYOUT ASSISTANTS: McKenna Johnson | Harper Wood | Star

WEBSITE DESIGN MANAGER: Caitlin McKenna

WEBSITE ASSISTANTS: Logan Farley

ART MANAGER: VACANT

ART JUDGES: Clara Gerken | Clarissa Mclaughlin

COPY MANAGER: Clarissa McLaughlin

COPY EDITORS: Ember-Reece Richardson | James Tickle | Sarah Hart | Leah Waites | Meahgan Ferral | Olivia Johnson | Reese Collins | Serena Sanchez | Shay Manning

RECRUITMENT MANAGER: Rita Aucker

MARKETING DIRECTOR: VACANT

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER: Ian Rossin

SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANTS: Zaira Aranda | Lauren Shoemaker | Sydney Denham

SUBMISSIONS MANAGER: Amira Mazzawy

SUBMISSIONS ASSISTANT: Emily Andsager

FEATURE MANAGER: VACANT

FEATURE ASSISTANT: VACANT

FEATURE WRITERS: Kenyon Geiger | Theodore Boronkay | Zenia deHaven | Evelyn Giffin | Jessilyn Quinn

READERS: James Tickle | Lizzy DiGrande | Alexandra Paradzick | Amber Morrison | Elizabeth Tonsberg | Jocelyn Peikes | Mary Massey | Thijs van der Put | Rita Aucker | Ian Rossin | Lauren Shoemaker | Addison Wallace | Jordan Penney | Logan Farley | Ash Kaur | Harper Wood | Meahgan Ferral | Meghan Joyce | Reese Collins | Serena Sanchez | Shay Manning | Xingyue Liao

Meet the Team

Emily Andsager | SUBMISSIONS ASSISTANT

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“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
-Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Emily Chapel | BOARD CO-CHAIR & READER

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“Sometimes a fantasy author has to point out the strangeness of reality.” -Sir Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Zenia deHaven | FEATURES WRITER
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“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. you don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.” – Becky Chambers, “A Psalm for the Wild-Built”

Patrick Edinger | BOARD ADMINISTRATOR

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If you live too much in the past, your life will be nothing but history.

Amira Mazzawy | SUBMISSIONS MANAGER

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I plan to become a professor of English and creative writing, and will soon endeavor the daunting task of applying for a Ph.D. For now, I hope being a submissions manager will expose me to more creative works and what the world of publishing is like to help teach my future students.

Casey McCarthy | EXECUTIVE EDITOR

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” -Robert Frost

Clarissa McLaughlin | COPY MANAGER & BOARD CHAIR & ART JUDGE

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HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
—Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Amber Morrison | READER

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“Don’t think or judge. Just listen.” -Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Alex Paradzick | READER
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“And then, at last, the world breathed in.” – A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab

Ember-Reece Richardson | COPY EDITOR

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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” -Benjamin Franklin

Lauren Shoemaker | SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT & READER
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Lauren is a first year masters student at Emerson College in the Publishing and Writing program. Aside from reading, she loves to go on walks and cook!

Melody Rivas | COMMUNICATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER

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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Tehya Tenasco | READER

“Always be a poet, even in prose.” -Charles Baudelaire

James Tickle | COPY EDITOR & READER
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“Not all those who wander are lost” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

Ryan Yau | DESIGN AND LAYOUT MANAGER

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Ryan Yau (he/him) is a third-year journalism student. He is interested in writing criticism, primarily film but also the other arts. Various interests include playing saxophone (formerly), rock climbing, and being a waiter.