People

Editorial

Artists, Writers, and Poets in Residence

Adora Svitak

Writer in Residence

Adora is a writer currently based in New Haven. Her stories, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in publications including Apogee Journal, BUST, the Huffington Post, and numerous others. Her book Speak Up! Speeches by young people to empower and inspire was published by Quarto in February 2020.

Carina Cain

Writer in Residence

Carina is a Bay Area local who graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a B.A. in English. She is admittedly too fond of the hyphen, and wholeheartedly believes that arts education is fundamental to the well-being of society. 

Aiden Blasi

Writer in Residence

Aiden is a writer currently based out of Massachusetts. He recently graduated from the University of Vermont, double majoring in English and Psychological Science. His other interests include surreal horror movies, international fusion music, and conspiracy theories (but not in a weird way).

Manya Naranzogt

Photographer in Residence

Manya is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on photography, painting, and sculpture centered on themes of nostalgia and security. As a child, they learned everything about photography from their father who shoots landscape photography in the Mongolian wilderness.

Hannah Meyer

Poet in Residence

Hannah is a writer, director, and dramaturg who recently graduated from Muhlenberg College. She is a fan of sudden lightning storms, chutzpah, and finding the perfect bagel.

Ryan Bresingham

Poet in Residence

Ryan is a writer and aspiring screenwriter based in Los Angeles currently studying Creative Writing and Film Studies at Pepperdine University. He is a strong advocate for the Oxford comma, and he finds immense beauty in the power of storytelling.

Chloe Biggs

Poet in Residence

Chloe received her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she also served as the Editorial Assistant in poetry for The Literary Review. She is essentially an overgrown theater kid who loves reading gothic literature and mythology, coloring, and celebrating Halloween 365 days per year.

Devon Brock

Poet in residence

Devon is a short order cook and writer living in South Dakota, United States. His single ambition with his poetry is to make one person laugh and one person cry. With that, he believes, the work is done.

Austin Fisher

Music Curator in Residence

Austin is a cellist, Chicagoan, and writer with a penchant for Haydn’s string quartets. He is passionate about curating meaningful and authentic opportunities for connection through music. When he’s not writing about music, you can find him imbibing at the Green Mill or reading on his front stoop in Logan Square.

Connor Dillman

Music Reviewer in Residence

Connor is a writer and visual artist based in Los Angeles. He received his BA in English at Emory University and is currently studying Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design. He spent a good chunk of his early life on baseball fields around the world, but now he feels most at home by the ocean or on dark dance floors.

Michelle Hernández

Music Curator in Residence

Queer, Mexican womxn of P’urhépecha ancestry, Michelle is a community advocate and activist. She has learned from an early age from her abuelita that music is medicine, which is why it was fundamental to her healing before she could even speak.

Nick Sansone

Film Reviewer in Residence

Nick is a writer and aspiring filmmaker from Chicago. A recent graduate of DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts, he continues to study film independently and has appeared on different radio programs in the Chicagoland area to discuss contemporary cinema and the Academy Awards.

Trevor Ruth

Film Reviewer in Residence

Trevor is a writer from Livermore, California, whose work has previously appeared in Occam’s Razor, The Southampton Review, and other literary journals. He writes fiction and poetry that utilizes slipstream to subvert genre ideals, as well as critical essays on film and art.

Ibrahim Nureni

Book Reviewer in Residence

Ibrahim lives and writes in a beautiful world; his philosophy is “the sky is big enough for all the birds not to collide.” He uses art to soak boredom. When he is not writing, Ibrahim is somewhere in the world with a glass of wine and suya (spicy meat skewer). Follow him on Twitter @Nurenium.

Alecsander Zapata

Book Reviewer in Residence

As a writer, editor, and reviewer of fiction, Alec has devoted his life to the storytelling craft. He follows two core tenets which frame his philosophy on literature: one, that it is the question minus the answer, and two, that it can be found anywhere. He is soon to graduate from the University of San Francisco with degrees in English and Spanish.

Emma Ginader

Book Reviewer in Residence

Emma is a poet, critic, and editor. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Writing with a Concentration in Poetry. Her poetry has most recently appeared in the Paper Teller Diorama anthology, Lavender Review, The Moth Magazine, and South Broadway Ghost Society. She aims to highlight new voices and re-explore the old.