⎯ executive team.

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Grace Chandler Editorial DirectorMinhkha (Mink) Dang submission review director & social media managerBlake submission review directorElla Kate social media manager

Peyton submission review directorStella Wherritt design directorKayleigh Behar design directorWenshu Wang content director

⎯ editing team.

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Grace Chandler
Grace is a teenage writer from the United States. She seeks comfort in movies and TV, fantasy books, and creating her own worlds. Most of her time is spent listening to music, and she has an adorable dog named Leo.Ali Ducrow
Ali is a 19 year old college student with a love for writing. Since middle school, she’s been creating stories, whether it was plays or books. Now pursuing a major in marketing, Ali hopes to find a career as a literary agent to help make writer’s dreams come true

Shaaanvi V
Shaaanvi, a 15-year-old high school student from India has a profound passion for poetry, writing, painting, music, and fashion. Her poetry is published on esteemed platforms the Gilmore Review and Teen Ink. Additionally, she contributes as an article for The Teen Magazine.Aradhana Narasimhan
A multifaceted individual, Aradhana seamlessly weaves grace on the dance floor with academic excellence. An editor at a prominent magazine - Words With Weight, her literary prowess extends beyond, with numerous works featured in zines and newsletters. Two of her magnificent works have been published in a book named, "The Season of Eternal Love". A creative force, she epitomizes the fusion of artistic finesse, intellectual acumen and editorial flair. With a rich portfolio, Aradhana now aspires to bring their discerning eye and literary prowess to the realm of poetry as a dedicated and insightful poetry editor for Evanescent.

⎯ staff writers.

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Wenshu Wang content director
Wenshu is a current high school sophomore in the suburbs of New York. She has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and is published in the OPUS Journal and the QuriosInstitute Blog. When she’s not staring at a blank Google Doc, you can find her scrolling the New Yorker, watching old action movies, or learning a new guitar riff.Abigail Addae
Abigail is a fourteen-year-old aspiring author in Australia who spends most of her time practising piano, writing, reading, listening to music and rotting away on social media. She wants to publish a book one day, whether it be a romance book, superhero thriller or poetry book, but she hasn’t decided yet.Soha
Soha is an aspiring scientist with a deep love for all art forms.Anora Hundal
Anora Hundal is an aspiring author and musician studying in Finland with the goal to be a bestselling published author.Katanna Faith
Katanna Faith, a seventeen year old writer, has been writing for almost half her life. Whether that's short stories to novellas to full length novels. She hopes to publish her novels one day whether that's a full or part time career.

Callisto Arabell
Callisto Arabell is 15, born in India but currently residing in America. She is a dreamer, a hopeless romantic who finds solace in the world of books and music. Callisto loves poems, writing poems ranging from love, heartbreak, and friendship. She hopes to one day be a successful writer, giving others the same sense of warmth reading gave her.Mikha
Mikha is 15 years old and is passionate about writing. She likes reading as well as watching movies and listening to music. She is a student athlete, so balancing work and sports as well as writing is a bit of a challenge at times but she gets through it!Zoe Davad
Zoe Davad is a Filipino writer, currently pursuing a bachelor's in journalism at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Previously, her work has been published in the Philippine Graphic and Business Mirror. Her creative interests include alternative fashion, entertainment and music, and gaming.
Haley Carabeo
Haley is a high school senior who hopes to pursue a career in sports journalism, specifically in the collegiate sports space. Along with sports and writing, she also enjoys the culinary arts, music, poetry, and films.

⎯ graphic designers.

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Stella Wherritt
Stella is a 15 year old girl in high school who loves art, books, and fashion. She has been passionate about all types of art since she was very young. She spends most of her time reading, cuddling with her dog, and listening to music while making jewelry.Kayleigh Behar
Kayleigh Behar, who also goes by Kay on social media, is a creative, helpful, and bright person, who is always up for a challenge. Kay, most of the day, is at school, trying her hardest to be the person her little self wants her to be. She loves academia and knows that if she works hard now, she can have the future that she dreams of. When she's not studying, Kay also enjoys reading and creating content for her book-related Instagram account. She loves editing, designing new posts, and trying out new things. Overall, Kay tries to be the best at everything she does and never shies away from a challenge. She perseveres and never lets anyone or anything get the best of her.Deryn Hipe
Deryn is a highschool student with a passion for learning. She takes pleasure in reading, writing, designing, and listening to music. Spending most of her days in the comfort of her room, she is constantly on the search for new projects and ideas to explore.Pranavi Sharma
Pranavi Sharma is sixteen and currently a junior in high school. In her free time, she loves to paint, draw, write, and the play the piano. She runs her own women empowerment club at school, and hopes to become a psychiatrist in the future!

Ava Pedersen
Ava is a high school student with a love for animation and film. She enjoys spending her free time illustrating, developing original stories, listening to music, and watching romcoms. She hopes to continue learning 2D and 3D animation, cinematography, music composition, and editing to perhaps one day produce her own film or show.Alice Sheffer
Alice is a sophomore in the Bay Area, California. She's a poet and a creative director at her school's arts & culture magazine, and in her free time she enjoys reading, thrifting, listening to music, hanging out with friends, and collating.Neelisha Barfa
Bubbly moonchild adoring Hoya bella, munching on cookies and sipping cold coffee, dancing to K-pop vibes, and freezing moments with polaroids.Teodora (Tea) Djuric
She likes poetry, reading, writing, painting, origami, music, animals, mostly cats. Introverted highschool student trying to get through; dreaming of studying abroad.Shereshti Dixit
Shreshthi is a 17 year old high school student who takes comfort in being "scary" at first encounters. She dabbles in anything art related so you will find 10 different paint shades on her hands and sketches on her psychology textbook. She loves music(as an enjoyer exclusively)and would sell her soul for rainy days with blankets. She's convinced that the worst things created are loud chewing sounds and bad grammar.

⎯ submission review.

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prose/poetry judges

Peyton sub review director
Peyton volunteers to help make STEM and writing more accessible to youth and loves exploring these topics herself. She also loves rowing, fashion, golf, and business!Minhkha (Mink) Dang sub review director
Mink likes playing piano, dancing, and going to the beach with her friends. she's a sucker for a strawberry acai drink and a new york everything bagel. when she's not chronically rewatching captain america: the winter soldier, you can find her in the fiction section of a library, rereading her favorite series, or running in the grass with her terrier, cosmo.Quinn Hill
Quinn is a 16-year-old high school student who loves reading, writing, and photography! She spends most her time listening to music, watching movies, and crafting!

Isabel Gan
Isabel is a high school junior from California who loves historical fiction, alliteration, and the em dash. You can find her work in Fleeting Daze Mag and The Greyhound Journal. She is the EIC of Paper Cranes Literary along with editing for Chromatic Scars Review and Bardics Anonymous. In her free time, she enjoys playing the piano, late-night thoughts, and matcha!Madison (Madi) Perreault
Madi is a seventeen-year-old aspiring author/literary agent living in british columbia. she absolutely loves lana del rey, lake days, and anything written by suzanne collins. if you ever need help with beta reading or book editing, she’s your girl!

art/photography judges

Blake sub review director
Blake is a high school student in her final year, currently determined to pursue what she is passionate about and to see where it takes her! She likes to craft her poetry in grocery receipts, corners of science textbooks and in question papers, focused on turning melodramatic moments in time into written lines. When she’s not writing, she’s painting landscapes she saw on the car ride back home or reading Virginia Woolf in the front yard.

Ruby Han
Ruby is a freshman attending high school in California. She loves painting, going on social media, listening to music, and chatting with friends. she loves conversations even tho she's an isfj but don't be afraid to talk to her!Charlene Meik
Charlene enjoys art, writing and listening to a concerning amount of Lana Del Rey. You can usually find her going on long walks and taking pictures of sunsets.Flavia Carnicelli
Flavia is a teenage girl who thinks “sensitive” is the biggest compliment and would have very much liked to be a rockstar in the ‘80s but, alas, it is what it is. She dabbles in all of the arts, both as an enojoyer and as a creator, so it’s not rare to find her nose deep in a book or covered in paint at 3am. She’s always trying out a new hobby or busy with an old one that stuck, so time and sleep are some of her biggest haters. However, her mortal enemies are bad mascara, cold days in May, and people that don’t use commas. her proudest achievement is the fact that mosquitoes don’t bite her.

⎯ marketing team.

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Minhkha (Mink) Dang social media manager
Mink likes playing piano, dancing, and going to the beach with her friends. she's a sucker for a strawberry acai drink and a new york everything bagel. when she's not chronically rewatching captain america: the winter soldier, you can find her in the fiction section of a library, rereading her favorite series, or running in the grass with her terrier, cosmo.Ella Kate social media manager
Ella is an aspiring author and hopes to one day publish her on-going book. She’s never had any worked published in magazines, but came to work for evanescent to one day help teens achieve their goal of publishing their work. She always has her head tucked into the pages of books, daydreaming when she’s supposed to be studying, and will listen to music until the day she dies. She’s a big follower of Christ, and can’t wait to see where He leads her.

Aubry Severson
Aubry is apart of the marketing team and is so excited to be apart of evanescent!! She enjoys scrapbooking, youtube, listening to music, and band.

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Sol Nguyen
Sol is a high school student who is a dedicated artist with a broad range of styles and who is always eager to learn and try new things. They love listening to/making music, drawing, photography and learning languages. As a 1st place winner in several local art contests, Sol is always keen on expressing themselves and connecting with others through the arts.Catherine Cardenas
Catherine is a artist, writer and aspiring engineer, (or something science-y), whos interested in philosophy, politics, and psychology . She likes Hannibal, Sci-Fi dystopian shows and movies, anime, hiking, swimming and her favorite color is pink!Evangeline Ramer
Evangeline, who also goes by Evie, loves doing illustration, especially digital illustration and would love to work in an illustration profession in the future. She loves reading and writing, and in her spare time, she works on stories! She loves cats, fashion, and movies, and often tries to display that in her biggest passion, art.

Evan, our mascot, drawn by Sol!

Dimetra Mukherjee
Dimetra (also goes by Suzy) is a 17 year old artist from India, who loves to tell a story through her art. Her inconsistent art style is what she's fond of the most. She adores different art styles and loves to explore them while keeping the signature element of her art unchanged. Other than art, she's a huge animal lover, loves to watch anime, and kdramas. Dimetra has special interest in astrophysics, bioscience, and detective stories.