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LITERARY MAGAZINE
est. may 2024
PAPER CRANES
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editor-in-chief
Isabel Gan is a Singaporean-American writer from California who loves evocative imagery and the em dash. Along with editing for various literary magazines, her work is published or forthcoming in Black Fox Literary, The Greyhound Journal, and Fleeting Daze Magazine, among others. She loves late-night musings, reading composers' biographies, and hot soup on rainy days.
ZEINA SHERIF
editor
Zeina Sherif is an Egyptian 16-year-old junior who's passionate about literature. From a young age, she has been obsessed by the power of words and the worlds they can create. She loves spending her days diving into new books, whether they are classical novels, fiction, or nonfiction. Zeina is also an avid writer often creating her own stories that reflect her thoughts and imagination.
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CHLOE D.
editor
Chloe D is an avid reader and writer who loves both prose and poetry. When she is not doing either of the forementioned, she can be found swimming, playing tennis, listening to music, or practicing her violin. Visit her Instagram @readlovewrite47
LILY WILLOWS
staff writer
Lily Willows is a writer, poet and journalist, uses her own experiences, as a woman, to engage with a primarily female reader. Additionally, Lily is a prolific pen pal, lover of sunflowers and collector of Jellycats. Lily’s writing primarily focuses on self-love, girlhood and feminism.
DORISA SUN
graphic designer
Dorisa Sun is a Chinese-American 16-year-old from New Jersey, USA. She has an abnormal penchant for photoshopping things, whether it be superimposing her friend’s face on a celebrity’s face or creating laughably bad edits of her teachers as minions. Her favorite pastimes are scrolling through the “web weaving” tag on Tumblr, obsessing over Notion Calendar features, and reading neuroscience-related articles featured in the Nature journal.
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JAY BELANDRES-MENDOZA
editor
Jay Belandres-Mendoza is a university student living in Jacksonville, Florida for most of the year. She is working on her Bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She mainly writes poetry except for the occasional fiction piece. Her work has been published in magazines like the Bitter Melon Review, The Petrichor Gazette, and The Graveyard Zine.
MAHATHI SATHISH
editor
Mahathi Sathish is a tired, socially-awkward teenager from Chennai, India who believes in words and not things. She’s got a terrible sense of humour and a relentless pursuit to tell stories from the ordinary. When she’s not busy cackling to re-runs of old sitcoms, you can find her alone, in a corner with a sheet of really bad poetry.
CHELSEA GUAN
staff writer
Chelsea Guan is a 16-year-old writer/poet from Pennsylvania, USA. She’s passionate about (you guessed it!) creative writing, poetry, and all things alike. In her free time, she enjoys reading thriller novels, going out on walks, losing herself in baking, and putting random ideas into her notes app for writing inspiration. Chelsea can be found spending a lot of time at her local library.
NATHALIE ALEGRE
staff writer; graphic designer
Nathalie Alegre uses her work to immortalize her loved ones (people and thoughts). Her world revolves around two things— the arts and the sciences, obsessed with how much they play off each other. She spends her free time obsessing over music, literature, film, crochet, and art, and her not-so-free time is spent being consumed by science.
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NOUR BERKANE
social media team
Nour Berkane is a writer and medical student from Algeria. Her work has been published in the Between the Lines: Peace and the Writing Experience Anthology and Aster Lit magazine. Outside of writing, she can be found twisting her hands in yarn in the company of her cat, or occasionally swallowed up in her mind.
BEN RAMAKRISHNAN
website designer
Ben Ramakrishnan is a high school sophomore who is passionate about music, theater, and literature. When he isn’t Broadway dreaming, he makes music, performs, reads just about anything, bakes, writes, and drinks iced coffee and hot tea. His biggest aspiration is to become a singer-songwriter. He is an introvert and an INFJ-T. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Vellichor Literary.
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