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Bianca (she/her) is a high school teenager who recently turned 16 y/o. She loves spending time creating poetry, practicing horse riding, and playing tennis during summer vacation. Besides that, she adores listening to rock music, specifically Nirvana. Her main goal is to encourage and inspire others through her daily work. This year she is extremely proud of her achievements, one of them being the extraordinary number of submissions, specifically poems, to numerous literary magazines worldwide. Regarding her relation to the queer community, she is happy to say that she is surrounded by the very best of friends who identify themselves as individuals that are part of this diverse and special community
Mia Soto/M.S. Blues is one of the most decorated figures in the literary magazine community. At nineteen years old, she currently serves on a few magazine boards and has over 270 publications. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Cuentos de la Gente and the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Infinite Blues Review. In addition to her literary endeavors, she is a college student and a proud employee of the Mental Health field. She currently resides in the Bay Area, California. Her debut book, Collected Works: Poetry & Short Stories can be purchased online through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers—as well as in store at Caspian Books located in Tracy, California.
Grey Ballarini is a creative writer, poet, and figure skater from Arizona who delves into the gorgeous and grotesque nature of the human experience in his work. He is co-founder of the literary magazine Rabbit’s Foot, and was a finalist for an ASU Gammage Award. As a trans and queer creative, his goal is to show the more raw and real side of being queer-- shame, guilt, and heartbreak, but also the euphoria that comes afterwards.
Kiara Turner is a 17-year-old queer poet based in the Midwest. Somewhere Over the Dying Rainbow is a piece they wrote inspired by their own struggles with being queer and the everyday experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in the U.S. and across the world.
Kate Abrielle McCormick is a Pansexual writer from Pennsylvania. She recently graduated from Queen Mary University of London with a Bachelor's and Master’s degree in English (BA) and Creative Writing (MA). She will be pursuing a Creative Writing PhD degree this October at Lancaster University. Her favorite types of writing are poetry and screenplays. In her free time, Kate enjoys Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ works, ‘Good Omens,’ and other such works of whimsy.
Lucas Lui is a poet from New York City, beginning his literary reputation in junior year of high school. His inspirations include Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, and Ocean Vuong. Lucas has performed his poetry for the Poetry Society of New York, the New York Public Library, as well as for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Currently, Lucas Lui is a freshman at New York University as an English major.
About the Contributors:
Dan Aries (she/they) is a queer Filipino artist and writer. Born and raised in a shoebox town, she longs for the city at heart. Having been published in numerous litzines, she writes about queer experience in the gaze of surrealism, gender revolution, and dynamite flamboyancy. Young as she may be, she has a fierce heart for advocating intersectional feminism. Wrapped into the colorful specter of pop culture, precolonial Filipino narratives, and diverse queer icons, she plans to write more about the rainbow community in its refracted beauty and harrowing hardships. If she is not writing or making art, Aries is probably just holed up in her room and watching drag makeup tutorials while feeling the fantasy with a mink coat. If you want to reach out, you can find her Instagram @heatherishz. Be warned though that her feed is splattered with NSFW artworks.
Hayden H. is a non-binary writer from Belgium with an interest in poetry and film analyses. Their poems and essays have been featured in multiple magazines at the mere age of twenty-three. In their free time, Hayden is the creator of the coffee and film podcast, in which they discuss their love for cinema. You can follow them on Instagram @orchiidscurse to keep in touch with the art they create.
Kaci O'Meara is a Glasgow based gothic alternative poet/zine maker/ photo with over 30 published poems both online and in print. Kaci identifies as a Queer, arospec woman and believes in using her identity and voice to spread awareness and advocate for LGBTQ+ and human rights. Find her work on Instagram.
Shu J. Liu, though currently studying mathematics & business in university, holds a love for poetic and dystopian science fiction stories. They have been published in multiple literary magazines, such as Rewrite the Stars Review, Evanescent Magazine, and Vellichor Literary Magazine. When they're not writing, they also enjoy doodling in between math questions and watching action movies. Note: Her piece “Right Person, Right Time” was previously published in Bitter Melon Review’s Pride issue.
Esther Windt is a nineteen year old trans writer, whose piece, “A Short Conversation With My Younger Self,” showcases her love of poetry. On top of poetry, she also loves to write short stories, and creative nonfiction, and is currently attending Saint Ambrose University. She has her work published in the Half and One magazine, as well as The Atlas 17 and 18, and Quercus Volume 32.
Gloria is a self-taught artist who picked up painting as a hobby during March of 2020, as COVID-19 drove everyone indoors. Painting became an avenue of catharsis, and allowed her not only to express herself, but also to process complex emotions in a way that felt less foreign. Above all, however, art has transformed into a love language she uses to express her gratitude towards the life she has come to love in a tangible way.
