Meet The Team.

Founder & Editor In Chief

Ananya Kharat

Ananya Kharat is a writer based in the Chicagoland area, where she spends her days on LetterBoxd and at the local library. Alongside being recognized nationally by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards, you can find her work in The Empty Inkwell Review as well as in Frighten the Horses, and she is forthcoming in The Lunar Journal. Her instagram handle is @ananyakharatt.

Founder & Editor In Chief

Jaiden Geolingo

Jaiden Geolingo is a Pinoy writer based in Georgia, United States. He has been publicly recognized by The National YoungArts Foundation, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Young Poets Network, among others. Additionally, his work can be found published or forthcoming in Dishsoap Quarterly, The Poetry Society, eunoia, The Shore, and other journals. Someday, he will be good at math.

Prose Managing Editor

Rishi Janakiraman

Rishi Janakiraman is a writer from Raleigh, NC. His work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, The New York Times, Young Poets Network, and Bow Seat. A Top 15 Foyle Young Poet of the Year, his poems appear or are forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Dishsoap Quarterly, and eunoia, among others. He is an alum of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program and was one of 9 national medalists selected in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards' 2024 anthology. He is an executive editor for Polyphony Lit.

Poetry Managing Editor

Aldrin Badiola

Aldrin Badiola (he/him) is a Filipino poet. A Best of the Net nominee, his works are published or forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Fleeting Daze Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland. He can be found at aldrinbadiola.carrd.co.

Join us!

If you can't tell, we need to expand our masthead. We are currently in need of:

Poetry editors | Prose editors | Art/photography editors |

Screenwriting editors | Graphic design editor

Join the team today!

APPLY HERE!