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Leadership

Peter LaBerge

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Heidi Seaborn

Executive Editor

Chris Crowder

Managing Editor

Kalpana Negi

Senior Editor

David Roderick

Director of Content

Cara Lynn Albert

Marketing Director

John Allen Taylor

Mentorship Director

Hantian Zhang

Hantian Zhang

Finance Director

Sonia Hammer

Development & Fundraising Director

Genre Editors

Sara Afshar

Poetry Editor

Emily Cinquemani

Poetry Editor

Moises Delgado

Prose Editor

Sam Downs

Prose Editor

Ally Findley

Prose Editor

Kate Gaskin

Poetry Editor

Eugenia Leigh

Poetry Editor

Enshia Li

Enshia Li

Prose Editor

Albert Liau

Prose Editor

Sierra Lindsay

Prose Editor

Eric Shattuck

Eric Shattuck

Prose Editor

D.S. Waldman

Poetry Editor

Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Consulting Editor

Zoe Dorado

Assistant Poetry Editor

Staff Readers: Poetry Team

Diya Abbas

Poetry Reader

Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi

Poetry Reader

Sarkis Antonyan

Poetry Reader

Subhaga Crystal Bacon

Poetry Reader

Sam Baker

Poetry Reader

Miguel Barretto Garcia

Poetry Reader

Cole Barry

Poetry Reader

Michael Baruch

Poetry Reader

Matthew Buxton

Poetry Reader

Chay Canceran

Poetry Reader

Miles Cayman

Poetry Reader

Mbizo Chirasha

Poetry Reader

Lauren Claus

Poetry Reader

Lauren Claus

Poetry Reader

Tatiana Dolgushina

Poetry Reader

Morgan English

Poetry Reader

Shawna Ervin

Poetry Reader

Alana Esposito

Poetry Reader

Loisa Fenichell

Poetry Reader

Sabbi Gale-Donnelly

Poetry Reader

Gavin Yuan Gao

Poetry Reader

Juniper-Bea Gilbert

Poetry Reader

Samantha Grenrock

Poetry Reader

Kathryn Haemmerle

Poetry Reader

Sophia Hall

Poetry Reader

Javeria Hasnain

Poetry Reader

Gretchen Heyer

Poetry Reader

Leslie Hodge

Poetry Reader

Hunter Hodkinson

Poetry Reader

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss

Poetry Reader

Jared Joseph

Poetry Reader

Mackenzie Kean

Poetry Reader

Abbie Kiefer

Poetry Reader

James King

Poetry Reader

Divyasri Krishnan

Poetry Reader

Jane Laurence

Poetry Reader

Corinne Leong

Poetry Reader

Kasie Leung

Poetry Reader

Samantha Liming

Poetry Reader

Joanna Liu

Poetry Reader

Giovanna Lomanto

Poetry Reader

Rebecca Morton

Poetry Reader

Shareen Murayama

Poetry Reader

Eli Nachimson

Poetry Reader

Rebecca Morton

Poetry Reader

Jenna Nesky

Poetry Reader

Iris Nguyen

Poetry Reader

Cynthia Parker-Ohene

Poetry Reader

Isibéal Owens

Poetry Reader

Mayowa Oyewale

Poetry Reader

Natalie Perman

Poetry Reader

Lucie Richter-Mahr

Poetry Reader

Isaac Salazar

Poetry Reader

Devi Sastry

Poetry Reader

Christine Scanlon

Poetry Reader

Joyce Schmid

Poetry Reader

Jean Li Spencer

Poetry Reader

Nora Sun

Poetry Reader

Tola Sylvan

Poetry Reader

Kylan Tatum

Poetry Reader

Meagan Washington

Poetry Reader

Jim Whiteside

Poetry Reader

Kenton K. Yee

Poetry Reader

Karen Zheng

Poetry Reader

Kelsey Zimmerman

Poetry Reader

Emily Zogbi

Poetry Reader

Staff Readers: Prose Team

Som Adedayor

Prose Reader

Isaiah Gbenga Adepoju

Prose Reader

Michaela Anchan

Prose Reader

Rachel Attias

Prose Reader

Charlinda Banks

Prose Reader

Layla Bayoumi

Prose Reader

Jazmine Cooper

Prose Reader

Mina Dahl

Prose Reader

Sam Downs

Prose Reader

Anne Falkowski

Prose Reader

Caroline Fleischauer

Prose Reader

Caroline Fox

Prose Reader

Bruna Gomes

Prose Reader

Yasmine Guiga

Prose Reader

Yastika Guru

Poetry Reader

Amanda Hawkins

Prose Reader

Sarah Hofmann

Prose Reader

Nina Holtz

Prose Reader

Carrie Hsu

Prose Reader

Ben Humphries

Prose Reader

Matthew Ineman

Prose Reader

H. L. Kim

Prose Reader

Monica Kim

Prose Reader

Larysa Labiak

Prose Reader

Kyra LaFitte

Prose Reader

Olesya Lyuzna

Prose Reader

Tess O’Brien

Prose Reader

Jaz Papadopoulos

Prose Reader

Oz Paszkiewicz

Prose Reader

Trevor Patterson

Prose Reader

Will Pewitt

Prose Reader

Cole Phillips

Prose Reader

Stephanie Podgorny

Prose Reader

Iris Preaker

Prose Reader

Young Rader

Prose Reader

Kaydance Rice

Prose Reader

Angie Romines

Prose Reader

Cora Schipa

Prose Reader

Danielle Sherman

Prose Reader

Yeldana Talgatkyzy

Prose Reader

Cherry Lou Sy

Prose Reader

Conor Truax

Prose Reader

Dilinna Ugochukwu

Prose Reader

Sarah Wu

Prose Reader

Avery Yue

Prose Reader

Emma Zhang

Prose Reader

Editorial Ops Team

Matilda Lin Berke

Editorial Manager

Thomas Hobohm

Web Editor

Sarah Renee Beach

Staff Engagement Coordinator

Laney Conger

Editorial Assistant

Shannan Mann

Editorial Assistant

Content Team

Divya Mehrish

Associate Director of Content

Emily Collins

Content Editor

Sam Casto Hollman

Content Editor

Ben Regan Marra

Content Editor

Neha Mulay

Content Editor

Marketing Team

Autumn Koors Foltz

Social Media Manager

Rachel Dillon

Email Marketing Manager

Lara Katz

Event Marketing Manager

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PREVIOUS STAFF MEMBERS – ARCHIVE

Leadership
Sarah Fletcher (2012-13), Alexa Derman (2013-15), Lucia LoTempio (2015-16), Lauren R. Korn (2018-20), Garrett Biggs (2015-21), Kate Sweeney (2020-22), Dolapo Demuren (2021-22), Anne Marie Wells (2022), and Iris Law (2022-2023).

Genre Editors
Ameerah Arjanee (2011-14), Connor Cook (2011-13), Magen Eissenstat (2011-15), Namita Krishnamurthy (2011-12), Kratika Mishra (2011-13), Samantha Ardoin (2012-13), Elizabeth Ballou (2012-15), Russell Bogue (2012-14), Linda Ge (2012-13), Kamden Hilliard (2012-14), Katherine Frain (2013-14), Kaitlin Jennrich (2013-15), Charles Ramsay McCrory (2013-15), Aaron Robertson (2013-15), Cody Ernst (2014-17), Michelle Donahue (2014-17), Jackson Holbert (2014-18), Talin Tahajian (2014-22), Shelley Whitaker (2014-19), Isabella Nilsson (2015-21), Anthony Veasna So (2015-19), Jesse De Angelis (2016-18), Lisa Hiton (2016-22), Peter Grimes (2017), Wayne Johns (2017-21), Liz Breazeale (2018-19), Derrick Austin (2019), Leslie Sainz (2019), Katerina Ivanov Prado, Caroline Fairey, Marissa Castrinago (2023), and Francisco Marquez.

Staff Readers
Aria Aber, Nicole Acton, Jaylen Adams, Natalie Aflalo, Tolu Agbelusi, Temperance Aghamohammadi, Maryam Ahmad, Julia Aizuss, Olivia Alger, Brianne Allen, Rachael Allen, Mariel Alonzo, Madeline Anderson, Arman Avasia, Mary Ardery, Christian Arthur, Wale Ayinla, Lukas Bacho, Colin Bailes, Luisa Banchoff, Bindu Bansinath, Jenna Bao, Samantha Bares, Abaigh Barlow, Ayomide Bayowa, Lesya Bazylewicz, Emily Bernard, Ninad Bhat, Pritha Bhattacharyya, Destiny O. Birdsong, Ellie Black, Emma Bleker, Daniel Blokh, Nadia Bongo, Tom Bosworth, Andre Bouyssonouse, Meg Boyles, Hannah Boysko, Michael Brashear, Mayan Braude, Hayden Bunker, Chelsea Bunn, Kim Bussing, William Ward Butler, Annie Cao, Sara Carmichael, Walker Caplan, David Carey, Lucy Catlett, Nicky Cayless, Alexander Cendrowski, Dorothy Chan, Leila Chatti, Amelia Chen, Yongyu Chen, Haeyeon (Tina) Cho, Alexandria Chu, Helena Chung, Yennifer Clarin, Jo Clark, Samantha Xiao Cody, Anna Conner, Kell Connor, Preston Cooper, Andres Cordoba, Marisa Crane, Madeleine Cravens, Elizabeth Crowdy, Nathan Cummings, Jade Cuttle, Bianca Darby-Matteoda, Adrienne Davich, Delia Davis, Marc Decitre, Tige DeCoster, Claire Denson, Lane Devers, Sarah Jo DeVore, Trang Dinh, Aline Dolinh, Allison Donohue, Natalie Dunn, Bowen Dunnan, Steven Duong, Noah Dversdall, Mars Early-Hubelbank, Maya Eashwaran, Isabelle Edgar, Trista Edwards, Elliot Eglash, Sean Ennis, Mica Evans, Reed Everette, Julia Falkner, Lisa Favicchia, Alyson Favilla, Joseph Felkers, Marlin Figgins, Julia Fine, Lily Fishman, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Forsythe, Michael Frazier, Will Fraizer, Idalia Friedson, Samantha Futhey, Sophie Gaddes, Theresa Gaffney, Nick Gardner, Cassie Garison, Ashleigh Gill, Matty Layne Glasgow, Heather Gluck, Henry Goldkamp, Hannah Goldstein, Stefania Gomez, Ellie Gordon, Alina Grabowski, Chelsey Grasso, Hannah Green, Emma Grillo, Ivy Grimes, Jaclyn Grimm, Dominic Gualco, Dedeepya Guthikonda, Rebecca Gyllenhaal, Sage Calder Hahn, Aisha Hamid, Adam Hamze, Kate Hao, Alex Hartley, Jordan Harper, Edil Hassan, Elijah Rushing Hayes, Sara Mae Henke, Nora Henrie, Miles Hewitt, Julia Hogan, Trish Hopkinson, Maison Horton, Carolina Hotchandani, Will Howard, Carrie Hsu, Kaitlin Hsu, Allison Huang, Nancy Huang, Kinsale Hueston, Claire Hurley, Y. Jelal Huyler, Sierra Jacob, Gunnar Jaeck, Dabin Jeong, Michelle Jia, Nanya Jhingran, Zane Johnson, Emma Joss, Caleb Kaiser, Christos Kalli, Virginia Kane, Seelai Karzai, Maya Kaul, Caroline Kelley, Chloe Kim, Eunice Kim, Heidi Kim, Maddie Kim, Ben Kline, Hannah Knowles, Cody Koester, Silas Jones, Daniel Kovalcik, Tom Kozlowski, Dan Kraines, Mari Kramer, Hadiyyah Kuma, Rebekkah LaBlue, Piper Lane, Rich Larson, Lily Lauver Claire Lee, William Leggat, Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Rachel Leung, Blake Levario, Jared Levy, Rachel Lewis, Jessie Li, Jeffrey Liao, Allison Light, Esther Lin, Rachel Litchman, Yi-Ling Liu, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Carol Lubin, Megan Lunny, Casey Lynch, Amy Lyons, Emily Mack, Alice Maglio, Christopher Mahon, Fatima Malik, Rick Manayan, Lip Manegio, Victoria Mao, Christine Marella, Cahaley Markman, Chloe Martinez, Lillian McCarthy, Ariana McGinn, Molly McGinnis, James McKenna, Kathryn McMahon, Timothy Thomas McNeely, Jeff McRae, Liana Meffert, Chase Melton, Rebecca Mennecke, Kathryn Merwin, Chloe Michaelidis, Peter H. Michaels, Isadora Milanez, Rose Miles, Fatima Mohie-Eldin, Eliza Moley, Joanna Moley, Emily Morris, Eric Morris, Vasilios Moschouris, Catherine Mosier-Mills, Da’Shawn Mosley, Shareen K. Murayama, Meghana Mysore, Su Nadeau, Joe Nasta, Jackson Neal, Mia Nelson, Kimarlee Nguyen, Jae Nichelle, Greg Nicholl, Caleb Nichols, Amelia Nierenberg, Nkosi Nkululeko, Daniel T. O’Brien, Maggie O’Brien, C. Hiatt O’Connor, Paz O’Farrell, Michael O’Ryan, Julia O’Sullivan, Ife Olatona, Aaron Orbey, Carolyn Orosz, Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Deonte Osayande, Olatunde Osinaike, Sahi Padmanabhan, Dara Passano, Sophie Paquette, Rhiya Pau, Roger Pellegrini, Alejandro Pérez, Andrea Mendoza Perez, Eleanor Peters, Harley Phleger, Rushing Pittman, Meghann Plunkett, Michael Pontacoloni, Klara Pokrzywa, Andy Powell, Jenny Qi, Varun Ravindran, Caitlin Richardson, Kathleen Radigan, Ben Read, Rachel Reeher, Jessica Regione, Frances Revel, Rachel Reidenbaugh, Amie Souza Reilly, Matthew Ridley, Jayme Ringleb, Saga Ringmar, Angie Romines, Juliana Roth, Danny Rothschild, Tom Rowe, Sofia Rower, Amy Sailer, Dominique Salas, Iris Samuels, Julie Sanchez, Ravneet Kaur Sandhu, Melita Schmeckpeper, Margaret Schnabel, Mit Shelke, Shakthi Shrima, Paul Van Sickle, Amanda Silberling, Avantika Singh, Ryan Skaryd, Jess Smith, Keenan Teddy Smith, Audrey Spensley, Ariel So, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, Kimberly Grabowski Strayer, Taylor Strickland, Pauline Suwanban, Crystal Sung, Scott Szpisjak, Avia Tadmor, Oriana Tang, Valerie Taylor, Jonathan Teklit, Parisa Thepmankorn, Jacqueline Winter Thomas, Emily Tian, Ben Togut, Emma Townley-Smith, Amish Trivedi, Rebecca Tseng, Matthew Tuckner, Leona Vander Molen, Thomas Waddill, Ryan Wagahoff, Lloyd Wallace, Jieyan Wang, Kara Kai Wang, Haines Whitacre, Alice White, Roy White, Isaac Williams, Spencer Williams, Dalia Wolfson, Nicole Wong, Jules Wood, Chelsy Jiayi Wu, Tiffany Xie, Katherine Xiong, Lizabeth Yandel, Emily Yang, Gisselle Yepes, Jay G. Ying, Chun San Yong, Alex C. Zhang, Carrie Zhang, Emily Zhao, Ashley Zhou, Grace Zhou, Alexander Zitzner, Claire Zlotnicki, and Julie Zuckerman.

Art Staff
Michele Selene Ang, Brannon Dorsey, Will Erwin, Jessica Suhr, Lathan Vargason, and Emily Zhang.

Mentorship Team
S. Brook Corfman, Ollie Kim Dupuy, Kris Faatz, Polina Solovyeva, Emma Townley-Smith, Caleb Kaiser, Molly McGinnis, Carly Joy Miller, and Douglas Ray.

Marketing, Web, & Operations Team
Stephanie Chang, Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson, Katherine Chou, Samuel Clark, Amelia Van Donsel, Dené K. Dryden, Nadia Farjami, Stephanie Fieseher, Kelly Han, Genevieve Hartman, Eileen Huang, May Huang, Victoria Lau, Katrina Lee, Annie Li, Laurin Becker Macios, Michael McCarthy, Archita Mittra, Claire Oleson, Kaila Philo, Isabelle Sakelaris, Samantha Slupski, Zoe Stoller, Olivia Treynor, Bradley Trumpfheller, Kaitlyn Wang, Macrina Wang, Becky Wolfson, Cindy Xie, and Justin Zhu.

Content Team
Claire August, Bindu Bansinath, Bailey Bujnosek, Ariella Carmell, Darren Chang, Peter Chappell, Marina Chen, Corey Dahl, Derick Edgren, Peter Fera, Ally Findley, Aidan Forster, Henry Heidger, Audrey Kim, Kateri Kramer, Esther Lee, Emily Marquis, Joanna Moley, Reuben Gelley Newman, Gillian Pelkonen, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Imogen Shaw, Amanda Silberling, Eloise Sims, Jeffery Wang, Meimei Xu, and Audrey Zhao.

Internship Team
Shira Abramovich, Claire Ahn, Rachel Alatalo, Sage Braziel, Amelia Chen, Michael Ivory, Ariel Kim, Kyubin Kong, Sarah Lao, Youngseo Lee, Sophia Li, Jennifer Liu, Maria Mendoza, Uma Menon, Meena Rakasi, Jessie Seng, Derek Song, Nathan Phuong, Katie Pyontek, Isabel Prioleau, McKenna Ritter, Maia Siegel, Ivy Tica, Grace Wang, Cindy Xie, and Jisoo Hope Yoon.