OUR TEAM

Arim Lee (she/her) is a high school student based in Massachusetts and Seoul. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Writers, The Harvard Crimson, Smith College, The Fitzgerald Museum, The Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation, and more. She is an alumna of The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship, Iowa Young Writers Studio, and The Kenyon Review’s Young Writers Workshop.

Gia Bharadwaj (she/her) is a high school student from Boston, Massachusetts. An alum of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, she has been published in the Galliard International Review, Crashtest, and the Augment Review, among other literary journals. She is also a Literary Apprentice for the poetry team at Breakbread Magazine. Gia still can’t ride a bike, and her favorite snack is microwave popcorn.

Chloe Wong is a senior at Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California. A 2024 YoungArts Award Winner with Distinction in Poetry, and the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2023 Student Poetry Award, her work has also been nationally recognized by The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, The New York Times, Hollins University, and more. She is an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, and The Adroit Journal 2023 Summer Mentorship. In her free time, she loves spending time with Rusty and Lily, her pet cats.

Caitlin Andrews (she/her) is an English Literature and Philosophy undergraduate, a freelance copy editor, a ham-fisted writer, and her own personal worst nightmare. You can find some of her work in a variety of online journals, including Antipoetry Magazine, MiniMAG, Soft Sound Press, and Grain of Salt, or via some light internet stalking at https://linktr.ee/caitlin_andrews.

Natalie Chan (she/her) is a college freshman from Malaysia. She’s previously been published in The New Constellations Magazine, Aster Lit, The Graveyard Zine, The Paper Crane Outstanding Young Writers Anthology, and many others. She loves reading contemporary fiction, trying and failing to get the affection of stray cats, and listening to Mitski on her morning commute.

Lauren (Minyoung) Kim is a student at OCSA who is in the Creative Writing conservatory. As much as she loves writing, she is also an ardent visual artist. Her artworks have been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing numerous times, and she is currently the Art/Photography Director in her school's newspaper crew. She likes to watch nostalgic Korean cartoons while painting cute animals in her free time.

Grace Marie Liu (she/her) is a Chinese-American poet from Michigan. An alumna of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Peach Mag, and Vagabond City Lit, among others. In her free time, Grace enjoys binge-watching Studio Ghibli movies and eating her weight in almond butter.

Salvator P.R. (he/him) is currently a high school student living in central Texas. His work has been featured in a handful of small mags, and he participates in public speaking competitions. Above all else Sal enjoys to write over a number of things, with his three pet rats perching on his shoulders.