Ariel Kim is a seventeen-year-old storyteller residing in New York. She creates bildungsromane through both art & writing, exploring vulnerability, loss, and growth. Ariel’s work appears or is forthcoming in The National Poetry Quarterly, The Apprentice Writer, Parallax Literary Journal, and National Scholastic, among others. As the founding CED of The Incandescent Review, a magazine dedicated to illuminating youth voices, she hopes to empower youth to express their unapologetic identities as heirs to an uncertain world. You can explore more of her work on her instagram page, @ariels.artsy.