
Our Staff
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Casey McCarthy
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Ashdeep Kaur | Sydney Denham | Michelle Lee | Zenia deHaven
COMMUNICATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER: Melody Rivas
COMMUNICATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Tom Brady
DESIGN AND LAYOUT MANAGER: Ryan Yau
DESIGN AND LAYOUT ASSISTANTS: McKenna Johnson | Harper Wood | Star
WEBSITE DESIGN MANAGER: Logan Farley
WEBSITE ASSISTANTS: VACANT
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 | Brianne Simone | Michelle Lee | Zenia deHaven
RECRUITMENT MANAGER: Rita Aucker
MARKETING DIRECTOR: VACANT
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER: Ian Rossin
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANTS: Zaira Aranda | Lauren Shoemaker | Sydney Denham | Tom Brady
SUBMISSIONS MANAGER: Amira Mazzawy
SUBMISSIONS ASSISTANT: Emily Andsager
FEATURE MANAGER: VACANT
FEATURE ASSISTANT: Zenia deHaven | Theodore Boronkay
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| Michelle Lee | Brett Cadigan | Tom Brady | Kenyon Geiger

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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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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Amira Mazzawy | SUBMISSIONS MANAGER
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Casey McCarthy | EXECUTIVE EDITOR
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Clarissa McLaughlin | COPY MANAGER & BOARD CHAIR & ART JUDGE
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“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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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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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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Tehya Tenasco | READER

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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