Executive Board
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Dilara Sümbül,
Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Web Designer, Artist
Dilara Hacer Almata Sümbül is a writer from San Francisco and student at UC Berkeley. She is the editor-in-chief of Flat Ink, and a prose reader at the Farside Review. Her work has been recognized by The National YoungArts Foundation and The Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation. She is the is the descendent of Maraş, Istanbul, Almaty, and their literature. More of her work can be found at dilarasumbulwriting.com
Crystal Peng,
Managing Editor
Crystal Peng lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her work appears in Poetry Pause, Sine Theta Magazine, Blue Marble Review, and elsewhere. When not writing, she spends her time propagating succulents, listening to the Goldberg Variations, or in a wikipedia rabbithole about oysters.
Editors
Tola Zysman,
Fiction Editor & Staff Writer
Tola (she/her) is a fiction writer from Warsaw, Poland. Her work has been recognised by Bennington College, amongst others, has been nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize, and is published in The Adroit Journal, Gone Lawn and elsewhere. When not writing, you can find her combing through second-hand bookshops or tweeting @tolazysman. She would love it if you subscribed to her substack (https://tolazysman.substack.com)!
Dhwanee Goyal,
Poetry Editor
Dhwanee Goyal (she/her) is a sixteen-year-old student from Maharashtra, India. An editor-in-chief of Indigo Literary Journal, her work appears or is forthcoming in Claw & Blossom, Whale Road Review, Heavy Feather Review, and more. Her Twitter handle is @pparallell, and her micro-chapbook, ‘Kasauli Daydreams,’ is out from Ghost City Press. The first prize winner of the Poetry For Our Times competition, she is an Adroit 2021 mentee, and an alumna of Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.
Kai Van Ginkel,
Review Editor & Staff Writer
Kai Van Ginkel is a Midwesterner who is often seen with a book in hand. A Graduate of College of St. Mary’s with a degree in Writing and Literature, they are an editor with a passion for fairy-tales and the subversion of old stories. They are an Anthology Editor for Lupercalia Press, and can also be found reading and reviewing books at Sleeping Dragon Reviews, or on twitter @KaiVanGinkel
Nandini Rabindra Maharana,
Poetry Editor
Nandini Rabindra Maharana is a seventeen-year-old who enjoys nature walks and petrichor. She resides in New Delhi, India, and is currently in high school. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cathartic Lit, Wonders Magazine, Bridge Ink Magazine, The Aurora Journal. Apart from writing, she doodles and studies science. You can find more about her on: nandini.carrd.co
Staff Writers, Interviewers, & Readers
Angel Zhao,
Prose and Poetry Reader
Angel lives and writes in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has been acknowledged by the Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize competition and Pluvia Literary Magazine and was a runner-up in The New York Times’ 2021 Coming of Age Multimedia Contest. In her free time, she enjoys The New Yorker and Conan Gray; however, most recently, she has become a Wes Anderson enthusiast.
Angelina Yeung,
Staff Writer for Craft Essays and Prose and Poetry Reader
A rising sophomore, Angelina is a 15 year old from Vancouver, Canada. Other than procrastinating on writing their hundreds of unfinished poems hidden away in google docs, you can find them at debate club, binging hours of youtube, or trying to maximize the time they can avoid going outdoors. They love all forms of surrealist and narrative poetry and prose. You can find them @ang_yeungg on twitter.
Vrinda Gandhi
Prose and Poetry Reader
Vrinda is an eighteen year old literature enthusiast from India. She has work forthcoming/in Overachiever magazine, Ice Lolly Review, Koening zine and currently is a personal essay writer for Outlander Zine. She loves street food, vanilla candles and wishes to travel and write stories about obscure experiences of people.
Audrey Snow Matzke,
Staff Writer for Literary Criticism & Craft Essays
Audrey Snow Matzke is a nascent autistic writer from Chicago, IL. Appearing in The Augment Review, Stone Of Madness Press, and elsewhere, you can follow her journey to expand her resume @amsnowwrites. She will graduate high school in the spring of 2022.
Zo Estacio
Staff Writer for Reviews & Craft Essays
Zo is a writer, poet, Humanities student and calligraphy enthusiast, with a love for clouds, poetry and memoirs. Her work appears in Flat Ink, Cathartic Lit and Blue Marble Review and she is a poetry editor and staff writer for The Global Youth Review. They are a big believer in the arts as a language for communication and connection and can be found immersed in a movie soundtrack or panicking about college.
Ayah Shatara,
Prose and Poetry Reader
Ayah Shatara is a seventeen-year-old Palestinian writer from Orlando, Florida, currently writing for an online news site called Generation News. She also enjoys writing poetry and short fiction in various genres. When not writing, she spends most of her time fawning over local cats, volunteering, and reading about her latest fixations.
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