MASTHEAD
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Krystal Yang is a high school senior from San Jose, California. She is an alum of Stanford's Creative Writing Institute and University of Virginia's Young Writers Workshop. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Crashtest Magazine, H.S. Polyphony, and Verbaleyze's 2018 Young Writers Anthology. She loves magical realism, alligators, and magical realism stories about alligators.
Serena Yang is from Queens, New York, a place she wasn't born in but loves. She is a 2019 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador and a Resist/Recycle/Regenerate Fellow with the W.O.W Project in Chinatown. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and Urban Word NYC, and she reads poetry for Bitter Melon. Talk to her about slam poetry, queer Asian media, and cats sitting on glass.
PROSE EDITORS
Chloe Evans was adopted from China when she was eleven months old and now lives on Oahu with her mother. She began cultivating a wild, fantastical imagination at the age of five and has since discovered a love for scriptwriting. She is an alumnae of UVA’s Young Writers Workshop and has dabbled in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. When she isn’t writing, Chloe enjoys performing onstage and working part-time to help pay for college.
POETRY EDITORS
Caitlyn Clark is an 18 year old poet, student, and self-proclaimed riot grrrl. She became the youngest Teen Poetry Slam Grand Champion at 14 and has since gone on to perform across the country and alongside John Legend and Sharon Jones. She currently lives in New Haven, CT, where she attends Yale University (Yale College, 2022) and is a member of WORD, Yale's oldest spoken word group. However, she will always call the San Francisco Bay Area her home.
Cindy Kuang is a 17-year-old NYC teen who uses poetry to get rid of her excess feelings. She attends Hunter College High School and is editor-in-chief of Argus, the school's literary magazine, as well as poetry editor and reader for Bitter Melon and H.S. Polyphony. Her work has been commended by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Her other hobbies include window shopping and obsessing over celebrities.
Claire Shang is a high school junior in New York. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards nationally, the Foyle Young Poet awards and the City College of New York, and can be seen in or forthcoming in L'Ephemere Review, Bitter Melon, and Blue Marble Review. She studied poetry at the 2018 Sewanee Young Writers' Conference. Besides writing, she also runs and plays the piano, but not all at the same time (maybe one day).
Krystal Yang is a high school senior from San Jose, California. She is an alum of Stanford's Creative Writing Institute and University of Virginia's Young Writers Workshop. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Crashtest Magazine, H.S. Polyphony, and Verbaleyze's 2018 Young Writers Anthology. She loves magical realism, alligators, and magical realism stories about alligators.
Serena Yang is from Queens, New York, a place she wasn't born in but loves. She is a 2019 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador and a Resist/Recycle/Regenerate Fellow with the W.O.W Project in Chinatown. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and Urban Word NYC, and she reads poetry for Bitter Melon. Talk to her about slam poetry, queer Asian media, and cats sitting on glass.
PROSE EDITORS
Chloe Evans was adopted from China when she was eleven months old and now lives on Oahu with her mother. She began cultivating a wild, fantastical imagination at the age of five and has since discovered a love for scriptwriting. She is an alumnae of UVA’s Young Writers Workshop and has dabbled in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. When she isn’t writing, Chloe enjoys performing onstage and working part-time to help pay for college.
POETRY EDITORS
Caitlyn Clark is an 18 year old poet, student, and self-proclaimed riot grrrl. She became the youngest Teen Poetry Slam Grand Champion at 14 and has since gone on to perform across the country and alongside John Legend and Sharon Jones. She currently lives in New Haven, CT, where she attends Yale University (Yale College, 2022) and is a member of WORD, Yale's oldest spoken word group. However, she will always call the San Francisco Bay Area her home.
Cindy Kuang is a 17-year-old NYC teen who uses poetry to get rid of her excess feelings. She attends Hunter College High School and is editor-in-chief of Argus, the school's literary magazine, as well as poetry editor and reader for Bitter Melon and H.S. Polyphony. Her work has been commended by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Her other hobbies include window shopping and obsessing over celebrities.
Claire Shang is a high school junior in New York. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards nationally, the Foyle Young Poet awards and the City College of New York, and can be seen in or forthcoming in L'Ephemere Review, Bitter Melon, and Blue Marble Review. She studied poetry at the 2018 Sewanee Young Writers' Conference. Besides writing, she also runs and plays the piano, but not all at the same time (maybe one day).