Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Anika Prakash is a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania who currently serves as an art editor at L'Ephemere Review. She was a participant in the 2016 Adroit Journal Mentorship Program, the 2017 Iowa Young Writers' Studio, and the 2018 Kelly Writers House Summer Workshop. Her poetry has been recognized by the Adroit Journal, Scholastic Art & Writing, and the Writers' Theatre of New Jersey, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a Platypus Press anthology, Red Paint Hill, Noble Gas Qtrly, Hobart, Sooth Swarm Journal, The Ellis Review, deLuge, and Glass, among others.
Head Editors
Poetry
Olivia Hu is a published poet. Her work has been published eight times in literary magazines with many more forthcoming. She is also a national winner in prose as well as serving on editorial boards for many other literary magazines, including editor-in-chief of Venus Magazine at venusmag.weebly.com. When she isn’t writing, she is wandering the café-scented streets of downtown dreamy-eyed or finding solace in her safe haven, a bookstore.
Olivia Hu is a published poet. Her work has been published eight times in literary magazines with many more forthcoming. She is also a national winner in prose as well as serving on editorial boards for many other literary magazines, including editor-in-chief of Venus Magazine at venusmag.weebly.com. When she isn’t writing, she is wandering the café-scented streets of downtown dreamy-eyed or finding solace in her safe haven, a bookstore.
Prose
Elizabeth Ruth Deyro is a writer, poet, and editor from Laguna, Philippines whose artistic work often lies on the intersection of religious criticism and interpretation of mental illnesses. She holds a BA in Communication Arts, major in Writing, from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. She is the Founding Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director of The Brown Orient, and the Prose Editor of Rag Queen Periodical. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from L’Éphémère Review, Porridge Magazine, Jellyfish Review, and Hypertrophic Literary, among other places, and has been or will be profiled in Luna Luna Magazine, BANAT Collective, Halo Zine, and TERSE. Journal. Know more about her at elizabethruthdeyro.weebly.com.
Elizabeth Ruth Deyro is a writer, poet, and editor from Laguna, Philippines whose artistic work often lies on the intersection of religious criticism and interpretation of mental illnesses. She holds a BA in Communication Arts, major in Writing, from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. She is the Founding Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director of The Brown Orient, and the Prose Editor of Rag Queen Periodical. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from L’Éphémère Review, Porridge Magazine, Jellyfish Review, and Hypertrophic Literary, among other places, and has been or will be profiled in Luna Luna Magazine, BANAT Collective, Halo Zine, and TERSE. Journal. Know more about her at elizabethruthdeyro.weebly.com.
Interviewer
Daniya Baiguzhayeva is studying English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Literary Review, Menacing Hedge, transition, and BAIT.
Daniya Baiguzhayeva is studying English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Literary Review, Menacing Hedge, transition, and BAIT.
Film
Adam Krasnoff is a high school senior at the Charleston County School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina. He has received accolades from Scholastic Art and Writing and the USC High School Writing Competition. In 2017, his poetry was awarded by the Leonard E. Milberg Poetry Contest at Princeton, and his prose has been published in the Interlochen Review. He attended the 2018 Kelly Writers House Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. On most days, you can find him exploring the city by bike with his camera in hand.
Adam Krasnoff is a high school senior at the Charleston County School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina. He has received accolades from Scholastic Art and Writing and the USC High School Writing Competition. In 2017, his poetry was awarded by the Leonard E. Milberg Poetry Contest at Princeton, and his prose has been published in the Interlochen Review. He attended the 2018 Kelly Writers House Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. On most days, you can find him exploring the city by bike with his camera in hand.
Blog
Nicole Seah is a student residing in Singapore, attending the United World College of South East Asia. She is an editor for Parallel Ink, has written for AWARE Singapore and for her school's literary magazine, Element. She has been recognized for the National Singapore Poetry Prize as a commended young poet for her poem "Stage Fright." In her free time, she eats peanut butter and attempts yoga.
Nicole Seah is a student residing in Singapore, attending the United World College of South East Asia. She is an editor for Parallel Ink, has written for AWARE Singapore and for her school's literary magazine, Element. She has been recognized for the National Singapore Poetry Prize as a commended young poet for her poem "Stage Fright." In her free time, she eats peanut butter and attempts yoga.
Art
Diana Khong is a young poet & ghost from the diaspora. She writes about ginseng, girls, & unidentified flying objects. She's editor-in-chief of Kerosene Magazine, and is on staff at Noble Gas Quarterly & Ascend Magazine.
Poetry Readers
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Stephanie Tom is a high school student who lives in New York and likes to scour the internet for contemporary poetry. She writes and serves as an editor for both her school newspaper and literary magazine, and has previously won a Gold Key from the Scholastic Awards for her poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Dear Damsels, Effervescent Magazine, Beech Street Review and Hypertrophic Literary.
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Emma Camp is a High School Senior from Birmingham, Alabama whose work has been featured in Canvas, Blue Marble Review, The Interlochen Review, SugarRascals, Girlspring, Cicada, and PolyPhonyHs. Her work has also been awarded two gold medals in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In her small amount of free time, Emma can be found performing Shakespeare and making gratuitous Hamlet puns.
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Vidhima Shetty is a senior in high school. Poetry has been a longtime passion of hers since she was young and continues to influence her everyday. Vidhima has been published in Eloquence, by the America Library of Poetry, and Creative Communications for her poetry. When she isn't writing, she is busy eavesdropping on conversations for inspiration in future pieces. She hopes to publish a book of poems some day.
Prose Readers
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Ashira Shirali is a high school student from Gurgaon, India. She has been a finalist in the Parallax Fiction and Poetry Scholarship Contest and the Virginia B. Ball Creative Writing Scholarship Competition, as well as a semi-finalist in the Adroit Prize for Prose. Her work has been published in Jet Fuel Review, 99 Pine Street, Germ Magazine, Parallax Literary Journal, and Moledro Magazine. You can find her reading with a cup of tea on most days.
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Megan Lunny is a journalist on the Reality panel of The Courier-Times Intelligencer, and a former Bucks County High School Poet Laureate (2017). Megan received a National Gold Medal in Flash Fiction from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2018. Her poetry has previously appeared in Acumen Young Poets.
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Nikki Velletri is a high school senior from Massachusetts. Her writing has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and the National Park Service, and it can be found in Kingdoms in the Wild and Words Dance, among others.
Previously On Staff
Kathryn Hargett
Eileen Huang
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
Connie Liu
Yoshita Narang
Eileen Huang
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
Connie Liu
Yoshita Narang