⎯ executive team.

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Minhkha (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

⎯ 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.

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.

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.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!Yulika Lovyn
Yulika is a web novelist, designer, and all‑around creative who blends dreamy aesthetics with character‑driven storytelling. Guided by a strong visual identity shaped by her background in graphic design, she brings a designer’s eye to every world she builds.

⎯ 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.

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.

⎯ 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.

⎯ artists.

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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.

Evan, our mascot, drawn by former artist, Sol!