meet the team

  • Lydia Wang

    Editor-in-Chief

    Lydia Wang is someone who loves stories so much, she decided to create her own. She is the Director of Chapters for The Young Writers Initiative, and she has been recognized by Scholastic Art & Writing, Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Ice Lolly, among others.

  • Mia Grace Davis

    Editor-in-Chief

    Mia Grace Davis is an undergraduate student at Stanford University. She is a 2023 National YoungArts Finalist in Writing and a U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts Semifinalist. Her work appears in Gone Lawn, The Tusculum Review, and Ice Lolly Review, among others. Visit her at miagracedavis.com.

  • Annabelle Wang

    Editor-in-Chief

    Annabelle Wang loves the ponderings and subsequent eurekas generated by story ideas. She has attended UVA Young Writers Workshop, California State Summer School for the Arts, and Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.

  • Chelsea Guo

    Prose Editor

    Chelsea Guo is a high school student in the Bay Area who is fond of long novels. She is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers Studio, a 2024 YoungArts Winner, and has been recognized with a Gold Medal by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the Adroit Prizes for Prose. Her work can be found in the Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Foundation Gallery and the Bluefire Journal.

  • Kaleb Gebresillasie

    Prose Editor

    Kaleb Gebresillasie is a writer who writes to foster dialogue on present social issues. His work has been recognized by YoungArts, Diode Poetry Journal, COUNTERCLOCK, and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Outside of writing, Kaleb loves playing pickleball, listening to music, and having thoughtful and fun debates with others.

  • Cole Barry

    Poetry Editor

    Cole Barry studies English and creative writing at the University of Vermont. His work appears in Emerge Literary Journal, Hog River Press, and others. 

  • Esénia Bañuelos

    Poetry Editor

    Esénia Bañuelos is a Mexican-American poet and short fiction author from Chicago, Illinois. She is an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College, double-majoring English and Linguistics. Her work has been nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Prize in Fiction, and can be read in The North Dakota Quarterly, The Allegheny Review, MANTIS, The Saranac Review, and The Maine Review.