Alexandra Geurts
most puntable 3rd year poet & los angeles public transit aficionado
Camila Valle
Camila Valle is a writer, editor, translator, horticulturalist, and abortion doula. She loves crosswords, karaoke, and repurposing jars. Her translation of Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze by the Chilean feminist art collective LASTESIS is out from Verso Books.
Lauryn Payne
Lauryn is a self-proclaimed suburbanite turned poet. She earned her BA in Sociology from Chapman University where she would discover her passion for lyricism. Her work focuses on familial dynamism, trauma and identity. Consequently, her work can be found in several keepsake boxes in her parent’s closet, brother’s birthday cards and half-full diaries.
Lora Mathis
Lora Mathis is a writer and artist from Southern California and Québec. They play with poetry, performance, video, sound, and sculpture. They are the author of The Snakes Came Back (Metatron, 2023) and have released work with Hello America Stereo Cassette, Burn All Books, the HIRS Collective, and Party Trick Press. Before this, they lived in Oakland, where they worked as a civil rights paralegal.
Marc Huerta Osborn
Marc Huerta Osborn is a writer, educator, and college admissions counselor from Alameda, California. His poetry can be found in Rust + Moth, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. His biggest creative inspirations are pelicans, pozole, and ghosts.
Mishal Syed
Mishal is a poet and fiction writer. She holds a BA in English and cognitive science from UCLA, where she received the Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the May Merrill Miller awards in both poetry and fiction, and the Clara Rusk Hastings scholarship. She is working on a poetry collection. For fiction, she is represented by Azantian Literary Agency.
Ray Reidenbaugh
Ray Reidenbaugh is a second-year poetry student currently based in Long Beach. She has a BA in creative writing and theatre from the University of Denver, as well as an MA in poetry from the University of Roehampton London. She’s always ready for a conversation about horror films, music, or her two (very lucky) black cats. If you can’t reach her, it’s likely she’s head-banging at a concert or getting lost in the desert.
Sara Son
Sara Son is a writer from Queens. She holds a BA from Johns Hopkins. She is working on some poems, essays, and a novel.
Vidhisha Mahesh
Vidhisha is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Xuân Tran
Xuân is a curious poet from Santa Ana, California. She achieved her BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing at UCI. Currently, she's a poetry section editor for The Ear.
