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Her poems and short stories have appeared in Euphony and Sliced Bread. She collects plush bats, antique books, and black dresses. Keep up with her on Instagram @sammy.aiko and Twitter @vamprebatz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654980519298-O3CT1K9496ANPUNM0PR2/Shade+Ayeni.jpg Our Contributors - Shade (she/her) Shade (she/her) is an undergraduate student majoring in English Literature. Her poetry has been published by the Academy of American Poets. When she is not writing, she may be working one of her various jobs or making playlists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654980541284-XNJYNKXFW3LD0TINNZS1/K_Bennett.jpg Our Contributors - Kelsie Bennett (they/her) Kelsie Bennett (they/her) is a writer studying at New York University. Their work has been recognized by the National Youngarts Foundation, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and others. When they're not writing, they handmake tiaras for their small business, Kiss & Tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655003182332-MQB39PZ4RPRD0Q5JIN3N/Michelle+Chen.jpg Our Contributors - Michelle Chen (she/her) Michelle Chen (she/her) is a undergraduate student at The University of Chicago studying Computer Science with a minor in Creative Writing. She is a Beijing native and when she is not at school in Chicago, she calls Vancouver, Canada home. 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Her work is forthcoming in Diode, The Languages of our Love (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022), and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654980734423-IW1CA31X0EZG7MZOX479/I_Edgar.jpeg Our Contributors - Isabelle Edgar (she/her) Isabelle Edgar (she/her) is a contemporary dancer and student studying English at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in The Westchester Review, Applause Literary Journal, Roanoke Review, Cold Lake Anthology and elsewhere. She calls Woods Hole, MA home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654980742769-Y8HQNX0DMMOOV0TX7E27/M_Lee+Fang.jpg Our Contributors - Max Lee Fang (he/him/his/他) Max Lee Fang (he/him/his/他) is a Chinese-American undergraduate student studying Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. Fluent in both English and Mandarin, Max has writing, editing, and translating experience in both languages. He is deeply interested in the Asian-American identity and specializes in first-person vignettes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654980753288-Z8AFDLBA9HR4R0EK2KYT/M_Farbridge.jpeg Our Contributors - Meghan Farbridge (she/her) Meghan Farbridge (she/her) is a Montreal-based writer completing an honours in English Literature with a concentration in Gender, Feminist, and Sexuality Studies. While her own interests land particularly in women’s modernist poetry and feminist posthumanism, she has also assisted in research work on nineteenth-century literature and ecocritical studies. She has worked as an editor, and has had several academic works published in The Channel Undergraduate Review, as well as poetry in The Imagist Literary Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655003329854-TPMTPAQHWBOL9JO2ZB4B/Surya+Hendry.jpg Our Contributors - Surya Hendry (she/her) Surya Hendry (she/her) is a student at Stanford and an occasional writer. You can find more of her writing at Identity Theory, The Leland Quarterly, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654981152731-1GDXXD5PG2T8QHTMI0N4/A_Kalabukhova_.jpg Our Contributors - Anna Kalabukhova (she/her) Anna Kalabukhova (she/her) grew up in Hawaiʻi in a Russian family and currently attends the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She sails for the university and spends any free time that she has playing around in the ocean doing various wind and water sports or climbing up mountains. She is an English major doing pre-med, and she owes her love of reading and especially writing to her sixth grade English teacher, Mrs. Robinson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655003368790-82WX3N1G38XC4LMX4IOX/Hanna+S.+Klasing.jpg Our Contributors - Hanna S. Klasing (she/her) Hanna S. Klasing (she/her) is an undergraduate student majoring in history with a minor in economics. She lives, studies and works in Berlin and loves using her writing to explore questions of growing up and existing in modern society, gender and queer identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654981518802-L7ZKOHXC5Q8EHT1CNSZV/B_Moskowitz.jpg Our Contributors - Bailey A. Moskowitz (she/her) Bailey A. Moskowitz (she/her) is a 2022 graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in biology and English. Her research has been featured in Brain Sciences and The Journal of Neuroscience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654981537164-1ZGZ8YVEX35O493CUNHI/E_Nass.png Our Contributors - Elise Nass (she/her) Elise Nass (she/her) is a second year undergraduate student majoring in English and Psychology. When she's not agonizing over writing emails and short bios, she can be found frequenting tea shops and lurking in bookstores. Her favorite authors include Kevin Kwan, T. S. Eliot, and Leigh Bardugo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655003388339-H6SXU3ZCSAAAQD1GW581/Esther+Eunsuh+Park.jpg Our Contributors - Esther Eunsuh Park (she/her) Esther Eunsuh Park (she/her) is a Sociology and Economics student at Bowdoin College. She writes poetry and non-fiction, and co-hosts the Stripped Bear podcast. Prior to Maine, she has lived in Seoul, Singapore, and Dubai. You can follow her @esther.pk on Instagram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654982044748-D5268Y9JPNC0ARVL41TW/S_Rice.jpg Our Contributors - Shelby Rice (they/them) Shelby Rice (they/them) is trying to contact you regarding your car's extended warranty. they read for Oxford University Press and won the Montaine Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2020. they study at MIami University, and have been published or have work forthcoming in American Literary Review, Rejection Letters, Longleaf Review, Okay Donkey and more. originally from Dayton, Ohio, they recently acquired a cane with a sword inside, and will tell anyone who will listen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654982054464-CQP7GJ2CJYL3OEKXNA3H/D_Richmond.png Our Contributors - Dylan Richmond (he/him) Dylan Richmond (he/him) is a student at Bowdoin College majoring in Dance and English with a concentration in creative writing. Along with being a Mellon Mays fellow, Dylan has received recognition in the state of Connecticut for his grieving and empowering words amidst the Black Lives Matter movement as well as various local accolades for his poetry and essays. In his free time, Dylan loves to pet large dogs, visit museums, and drink lots of juice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654982065758-SQIYK8JWTIL9UNYXTEP0/E_Schick.jpg Our Contributors - Emma Schick (she/her) Emma Schick (she/her) is a student of psychology and English Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. She grew up surrounded by strong crazy women and loves to read stories about strong crazy women. She has previously been published in CU Boulder’s Meridian. Emma spends her free time searching for 2000s inspired clothes, watching Gilmore Girls, and fighting with her sister over their shared car JaneBeth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654982077705-U6BEMNDA8PUVVDGXMXOD/C_Sharpe+Headshot.png Our Contributors - Campbell Sharpe (she/her) Campbell Sharpe (she/her) is Campbell Sharpe is a Creative Writing student at Washington University in St. Louis. She has too many minors and does too many things. A native Chicagoan, her writing parodies the oddities of her midwestern life. Her work has been featured in Euphony Journal and Euphonium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654982086355-LWTENVVCMW9WIXAADSR5/N_Sullivan+Horner.jpeg Our Contributors - Nora Sullivan Horner (she/her) Nora Sullivan Horner (she/her) is a Chinese-American undergraduate student at Bowdoin College studying Government and Legal Studies, specializing in International Relations. She enjoys writing poetry, fiction, and essays and is interested in publishing more of her work. She spends her free time creating, and particularly enjoys making jewelry and knitting/crocheting. That or petting the nearest cat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655003398014-LZUMD13PLP3RWI6U667N/Clementine+Williams.jpg Our Contributors - Clementine Williams (they/them) Clementine Williams (they/them) is a Black, queer undergraduate student hailing from North Carolina. They are working toward a degree in social work with a minor in criminology. They have work published in Stone of Madness Press, Death's Dormant Daughter, Impostor Lit, and The Gamut Mag. Their forthcoming Chapbook "Remedies for a Cavity" is set to be published July 2022 by Ethel Zine and Press. Find them at their website https://clementinewilliams.weebly.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1654982331995-1C07KLDS14222CZLZGQE/Z_Zhuan.jpeg Our Contributors - Zhuan (Elizabeth) Zhu (she/her) Zhuan (Elizabeth) Zhu (she/her) is an undergraduate student majoring in English Studies and Art History at the University of Hong Kong. She won First Place in HKU’s Original Poetry Performance Competition. She also curated the Photograph Exhibition Arrive Where We Started at HKU. Her passion lies in films, creative writing and drawing. She is an amateur singer-songwriter who plans to put songs on her Instagram: @elizabeth_zhuzhuan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644199912816-S7QEHBX8WOE554I416NS/Eleanor+Ambler.png Our Contributors - Eleanor Ambler (she/her) Eleanor Ambler (she/her) is a ballet dancer and writer currently pursuing degrees in English and Sociology from Arizona State University. As a dancer, she has performed professionally with Ballet Quad Cities, Festival Ballet Providence, and American Repertory Ballet. As a writer, her work has been featured in the Rhode Island Women’s Choreography Project and has won the Arizona State University Homecoming Writing Award for Poetry. Eleanor is fascinated by the connections between movement, music, and language, and enjoys exploring these connections in her creative work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195690634-88J0D5X25A7RGGHCQ1RM/Olive+Amdur.png Our Contributors - Olive Amdur (she/her) Olive Amdur (she/her) is a junior at Amherst College majoring in English and American Studies. She loves climate writing and Romanticism. Her creative and critical work has appeared in The Common and online at Amherst College Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195689272-VWS7W6H52NNXV3JLA9B3/Meredith+H.+Benjamin.png Our Contributors - Meredith H. Benjamin (she/her) Meredith H. Benjamin (she/her) is a second-year Political Science student at Grinnell College. Originally from the east coast, she has found herself more recently in Colorado, Arizona, Georgia, and Iowa. She loves volleyball, curry dishes, The Ezra Klein Show, and anything Taylor Swift. Her work has been published in Polyphony Lit, the Grinnell Underground Magazine, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and is forthcoming in Agapanthus Collective and the Grinnell Review. You can connect with her via her Instagram, where you will find lots of photos of sunsets and trees, with a selfie or two sprinkled in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195691695-3QTYH0RX8YRKOLJP1LEE/Tabitha+Chilton.png Our Contributors - Tabitha Chilton (she/her) Tabitha Chilton (she/her) is a senior Creative Writing major and Literary Studies minor at Bucknell University. She is from Alexandria, Virginia. She plans to continue work within the literary field after her graduation this year and continue to pursue writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195689761-U93X2HH1UOFHA6PAZ4V0/Nathan+Chu.png Our Contributors - Nathan Chu (they/them) Nathan Chu (they/them) is an English and Japanese double major at Kenyon College. A compulsive workaholic that likes writing short scenes and poems, they occasionally compose music and sketch. You can find more of their work on their website or follow them on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195691233-QEJYMM4BCYRQ009I9N2H/Sean+Etter.png Our Contributors - Sean Etter (he/him) Sean Etter (he/him) is a recent graduate of Emerson College’s Writing, Literature, and Publishing program. A lifelong fan of science-fiction and fantasy, He aims to use fiction to explore and highlight LGBTQ+ themes and characters. In his free time he enjoys reading, writing, and playing Final Fantasy. Originally from New Jersey, he currently lives in Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195690439-04I1N4684ASBA84YGH2W/Nicole+Fan.png Our Contributors - Nicole Fan Nicole Fan is a final-year undergraduate of English Literature at University College London, with particular interests in art, philosophy, and the history of science. She loves connecting with people, so feel free to reach out to her at her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195689154-SZK6ZXJDCYW2L6D1CM8M/Maya+Gelsi.png Our Contributors - Maya Gelsi (she/her) Maya Gelsi (she/her) is a senior at Syracuse University, where she studies film. Originally from New Jersey, Maya has been writing poems since childhood. Her piece “Up North” won the Edward T. Whiffen Poetry Prize for best undergraduate poem, selected by Jaswinder Bolina. She is honored to be included in this publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644199930745-JXCYDNVSHGWG1QVXONYL/Makenzie+Hallstrom.png Our Contributors - Makenzie Hallstrom (she/her) Makenzie Hallstrom (she/her) is a third-year Environmental Studies student specializing in marine biology and writing at the University of Washington. When she isn’t thinking, reading, or writing about climate change, she enjoys taking pictures of her friends and wildlife, spending time with her dogs, and hiking in the Pacific Northwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200511729-5C791JJH6HEXQYEHH4T8/Anna%2BKalabukhova.jpg Our Contributors - Anna Kalabukhova (she/her) Anna Kalabukhova (she/her) grew up in Hawai’i in a Russian family and currently attends the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She sails for the university and spends any free time that she has playing around in the ocean doing various wind and water sports or climbing up mountains. She is an English major doing pre-med, and she owes her love of reading and especially writing to her sixth grade English teacher, Mrs. Robinson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200482712-C5YHWD6TT7S2WMKIHS2X/Joshua%252BLee.jpg Our Contributors - Joshua Lee (he/him) Joshua Lee (he/him) is a third-year student at the University of Washington studying journalism and public interest communication. Following a story writing assignment in the 8th grade, Lee has practiced creative writing ever since. He is also Arts + Culture Editor at the school newspaper, The Daily of the University of Washington. You can contact him through his LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200184774-JD18YYYYDXB9P3KJG40F/Nina+Merkofer.jpg Our Contributors - Nina Merkofer (she/her) Nina Merkofer (she/her) grew up as the fourth of five vivid children. Merkofer enjoyed a turbulent and imaginative childhood. Moving around a lot, her family and her love of books have been a constant companion in an ever-changing environment. Her great passion for reading and writing have occupied many a waking hour, leading her to study English and Political Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Surrounded by many loved ones, Merkofer aspires to keep creating and sharing her writing with the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195970527-ZPAO43G473LL2LEO4BTW/VI.ii+Authors-No-Headshots.png Our Contributors - Natsumi Meyer (she/her) Natsumi Meyer (she/her) is a junior at Bowdoin College, majoring in Psychology and English. She has always had an interest in family histories, storytelling, and multiracial/ Asian-American identity experiences. When she’s not writing she enjoys singing in an acapella group, playing the violin with her family, and dancing anywhere and everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195691118-E9UB8VSUHJMXTJ1NKKEG/Paddy+Qui.png Our Contributors - Paddy Qiu (they/he) Paddy Qiu (they/he) is an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, studying behavioral neuroscience with a minor in creative writing. Their work primarily focuses upon the navigation of spaces, emphasizing the conduits of knowledge found in ancestral trauma and the nurture of interpersonal relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195688573-ETX5YBRUPP6CU4MM28CT/Andrea+Rodriguez.png Our Contributors - Andrea Rodríguez (she o ella) Andrea Rodríguez (she o ella) is an Education and Latin American, Caribbean, LatinX Studies double major at Bowdoin College. She is passionate about the outdoors and enjoys exploring the natural world around her homes in Maine and the Dominican Republic. During her breaks from the college, she travels home to Santo Domingo to work as an early childhood educator and to spend quality time with her family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644199803839-ATCGT500H7VU2BMR2K41/VI.ii+Authors-No-Headshots.png Our Contributors - Kira Santana Kira Santana currently lives on the island of Oʻahu, where she is a student, poet and hula dancer. Her work is influenced by the natural beauty of Hawaiʻi, and her childhood growing up in Norway. Kira received the 2019 Myrle Clark Award for Creative Writing, and in 2020, she was honored for her work in Creative Writing at the University of Hawai’i’s undergraduate showcase “English Represents!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644196270224-I977TCTIGIXVOMCIUMHX/Greta+Schmitzer.png Our Contributors - Greta Schmitzer (she/her) Greta Schmitzer (she/her) is a second-year student at the University of Florida studying psychology and telecommunications. Dedicated to storytelling in various forms, she enjoys literary fiction writing, screenwriting and film production. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644199910365-FUZ5IX3DERD5F2JJIMVZ/Basia+Siwek.jpeg Our Contributors - Basia Siwek (she/her) Basia Siwek (she/her) is a freshman at Emerson College studying Writing, Literature, and Publishing. She focuses on Creative Nonfiction and topics exploring concepts of feminine identity, change, growing up, and fascination with the natural world. She is based in Boston, MA and Austin, TX and you can contact her through LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200819426-QCGTIS5NSNAYNBABEZHC/Strub_Rachelle.jpg Our Contributors - Rachelle Claire Strub (she/her) Rachelle Claire Strub (she/her) is a Swiss and Dutch student born and raised in the surrounding villages of Basel, Switzerland. She is finishing her bachelor’s degree in English and Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. This is her first ever submission of a literary paper and she could not be more thrilled to be included in this current issue of the Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200432923-6LW66A1UP2MV7RDSLXUA/Kate%2BTapscott.jpg Our Contributors - Kate Tapscott (she/her) Kate Tapscott (she/her) is a current senior at Bowdoin College, where she is double-majoring in English and Hispanic Studies and minoring in German. She loves writing about gender in literature, and she aspires to be able to write for a living, either as a journalist or an academic. When she is not reading or writing, Kate enjoys long-distance running, rowing for Bowdoin’s crew team, and critiquing reality dating shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200641739-M6TK69SV9P5W08ALABCY/Vitiello_AJ.jpg Our Contributors - A.J. Vitiello (he/him) A.J. Vitiello (he/him) is an emerging fiction writer and a recent graduate from The New School. He is currently Assistant to the Publisher of Street Noise Books. Fresh off a solo trek across the Trans-Siberian railway, his hobbies include wandering, Dostoevsky, queer B-movies on Netflix, and Catholic guilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200642559-6IS225F4OEKB86YK6WCQ/Woodford_Caitlin.jpeg Our Contributors - Caitlin Woodford (she/her) Caitlin Woodford (she/her) is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, studying English with a concentration in literary prose, and minoring in Russian Language & Literature. Based in the Blue Ridge, she uses her writing to explore the boundaries between humanity and nature, and the stories that connect them. When not writing, she can be found working on short film projects, reading excessively, and wreaking havoc on Charlottesville’s local coffee supply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072122720-IVK3FHH2DJ18PTV62C3J/Sarah%2BAng.jpg Our Contributors - Sarah Ang (she/her) Sarah Ang (she/her) grew up in Singapore and is currently a final-year BA English student at University College London. She has won multiple international awards for her scholarly and creative work, including first place in the Wilbur Smith Author of Tomorrow Award, first place in the iYeats International Poetry Competition (Emerging Category), third place in the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize and third place in the Ledbury Poetry Competition for Young People. Her work has also been featured in publications such as Idle Ink, Mithila Review, Alexandria Quarterly, Medusa’s Laugh Press, the Claremont Review, and the Forest for the Trees Journal, among others. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072051145-LLYXWWYE9FQUFD7ALJ1V/Sophie+Archambault.png Our Contributors - Sophie Archambault (she/her) Sophie Archambault (she/her) is a junior at the University of Connecticut. She is majoring in English and is excited to be a part of this issue of The Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052045-PP8W8YWKK7SJALKQV0V6/Linnea+Backvall.png Our Contributors - Linnéa Backvall (she/her) Linnéa Backvall (she/her) was born and raised in Sweden but stubbornly pursued her dream of studying abroad and is graduating with a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Edinburgh in June 2021. Interested in literature and linguistics on the academic side of things, Linnéa also harbors a deep love for fantasy and speculative fiction, and nothing fires her imagination more than world- and character-building. She has not written actively since her early teenage years but is now hoping to take up the craft once more, to one day fulfil her dream of publishing a novel. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072584111-MDCQWGDALA7XHJJS5BMZ/MADDIE+CHIU.png Our Contributors - Maddie Chiu (she/her) Maddie Chiu (she/her) is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis studying English and East Asian Studies. She lives in Pasadena, CA with her family and shih tzu Mocha. She is always happy to hear from others, so feel free to connect with Maddie through her LinkedIn! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072005290-39KOYSB9N53AMX4TCLHJ/Kelsey+Day.png Our Contributors - Kelsey Day (she/they) Kelsey Day (she/they) is a writer and environmental activist from southern Appalachia. They are most well known for their poetry collections "The Last Four Years" and "Rootlines." Kelsey is a contributing writer for Two Story Melody and the Head Poetry Editor for the Emerson Review. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Expositions Magazine, Stork Magazine, Astral Waters, Atlas Magazine, and Blindcorner Literary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052464-9D0X00G5ZQISZX2DRMW2/Sophia+Dienstag.png Our Contributors - Sophia Dienstag (she/her) Sophia Dienstag (she/her) is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, where she majored in film and English and minored in German. As a senior, she served as editor-in-chief of Intercut, Wesleyan's only literary magazine dedicated to publishing writing on TV and film. She now plans to return to Los Angeles, where she grew up, to pursue a career in television writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072700033-UBYPWZKU8J73V6QRWGJ5/Joseph%2BDonato.jpg Our Contributors - Joseph Donato (he/him) Joseph Donato (he/him) is a third-year student at the University of Toronto studying anthropology and creative writing. Aside from writing, Joseph enjoys escape rooms, Taylor Swift, and lottery tickets. He can be found @josephdonato13 on Instagram and @newartform on Tik Tok. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624071993892-HXRG1O922SZTZW9BAADI/Amanda+Hall.jpg Our Contributors - Amanda Hall (she/her) Amanda Hall (she/her) is an English major with a CW minor. She loves beautiful people with deep voices, and worked as Editor-in-Chief of New Forum during UCI’s 2020-21 school year. After rediscovering her bisexuality last summer, she made the executive decision to be as obnoxious about it as possible. You can find her at https://twitter.com/sampaguitasound! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624071993584-9V0E6F92X6FNVEU9AGV2/Emma+Karnes.jpeg Our Contributors - Emma Karnes (she/her) Emma Karnes (she/her) recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and Poetry Writing, and is currently pursuing her Masters of Public Policy. She has been writing poetry ever since her second-grade teacher introduced her to acrostics and diamantes and has had her work published in Rattle Young Poets Anthology, BreakBread Magazine, Tilde, and elsewhere. In addition to writing, Emma enjoys dancing and hanging out with her pups, and she's spending the current summer working on agricultural cooperative stewardship in Wisconsin. She is thrilled and humbled to have her work included in this issue of The Foundationalist! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072019192-5TORBC1FW6CGYO95CRT9/Clara+Kjelsberg.jpg Our Contributors - Clara Kjelsberg (she/her) Clara Kjelsberg (she/her) is a graduating senior from University of Rochester, majoring in psychology and planning on attending Boston College for her Masters in Counseling. She enjoys and writing and reading pieces about fairy tales, romance gone wrong, and the connection between perceptions of reality and reality itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072785023-KU9OVR13UC0RD2AHONS0/Kate%2BKwok.jpg Our Contributors - Kate Kwok (she/her) Kate Kwok (she/her) is a writer, translator and singer-songwriter born and raised in Hong Kong. She studies English Literature and Translation. A day in her ideal life would be sipping boba milk tea and playing her favorite songs on a Steinway grand piano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072051676-K6PB290RAY2MYH3F4DHV/Ashley+Little.png Our Contributors - Ashley Little (she/her) Ashley Little (she/her) is a recent graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. She studied English Literature and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies with a focus on feminist literary criticism and feminist philosophy. She is especially interested in the intersections between food culture and feminism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052158-ZKBGZVF7PSKLU5ZHKP5Y/Shirley+Liu.png Our Contributors - Shirley Liu Shirley Liu is a writer from Lafayette College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624073333465-WW5J83OGFISP67TFK5OA/Sharon+Mai.png Our Contributors - Sharon Mai (she/her) As a recent graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sharon Mai (she/her) majored in Biochemistry and minored in English. After college, Sharon plans to attend medical school. Despite her interests in the sciences, she finds writing and reading to be an escape and a way to express her creativity. Her main inspiration comes from her family, such as by understanding what it means to be a child of immigrant parents, her Asian American identity, and cherishing relationships in the past, present, and future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072049540-2YSE6WDC6NM3Y3Y4Y9SN/Thomas+McLeod.png Our Contributors - Thomas McLeod (he/him) Thomas McLeod (he/him) is an undergraduate in Honors English at the University of British Columbia. Thomas is currently the editor of both the blog and opinion sections of UBC’s student newspaper, The Ubyssey. You can find him on Twitter (@thomasmcleodtm) if you’d like to to subject yourself to some of the most generally senseless thoughts you’ve ever encountered. Thomas is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052949-1YC9ENOB0YW72GZ6MZUA/Neily+Raymond.png Our Contributors - Neily Raymond (she/her) Neily Raymond (she/her) is a native Mainer of Acadian descent. She studies English and Philosophy at the University of Maine and will be a Visiting Student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052562-6KWCJU49YNPJI2ZLKXE8/Michael+Trautmann+Rodriguez.png Our Contributors - Michael Trautmann Rodriguez (he/him) Michael Trautmann Rodriguez (he/him) is a Puerto Rican poet and recent graduate from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in English and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072053242-COUASDJ337AZDINTU616/Samantha+Rowling.png Our Contributors - Samantha Rowling (she/her) Samantha Rowling (she/her) is an English student at Arizona State University. She lives with her husband and son and is expecting a second child this September. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072056501-MDD93QJ48T3YOE160FJZ/Anne+Savage.png Our Contributors - Anne Savage (she/her) Anne Savage (she/her) is a senior at Tufts University, where she studies English, French, and Film & Media Studies. She is also Head of Writing for Tufts’ only gender minority comedy group, TFL Comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072034428-BZ67MVDU37PKILBPFNRN/Ruth+Scheiber.jpg Our Contributors - Ruth Schreiber (she/her) Ruth Schreiber (she/her) was born outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She is a rising senior at Smith College studying English with a Creative Writing Focus. Ruth has taken a variety of creative nonfiction and fiction courses and loves to explore the intimate and complex emotions around everyday life. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072051493-BAWHXZ1WL2FET5M0CZUX/Walton%2C+Julia+Headshot.jpg Our Contributors - Julia M. Walton (she/her) Julia M. Walton (she/her) is a recent graduate from Princeton University, where she concentrated in English and earned certificates in Creative Writing, Humanistic Studies, and East Asian Studies. Her scholarly and creative work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Philosophy World Democracy, COUNTERCLOCK, The Foundationalist, The Paper Shell Review, Tortoise: A Journal of Writing Pedagogy, Figments, The Nassau Literary Review, Questions: Philosophy for Young People, and The Best Teen Writing of 2016. Her senior thesis, entitled "The New Global Canon of Japanese Women Authors: Yōko Tawada, Minae Mizumura, Mieko Kawakami, and the Writing of a Heterogeneous Japan," was granted the Earl R. Miner Thesis Prize by Princeton's English Department. She lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. You can contact her through LinkedIn and Facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072008534-AMCQM2FG5E40L2WA42MQ/Cicely+Williams.jpeg Our Contributors - Cicely Williams (she/her) Cicely Williams (she/her) is a 4th year English literature honours student at the University of British Columbia. Her academic research is principally concerned with gender, sexuality, and intersectionality in modernist and postmodernist texts, with a particular emphasis on extreme or alternate modes of femininity. Her creative work often explores surrealism, introspection, and femininity, and was featured in Issue #10 of The Garden Statuary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072059944-0M5GDAYZ3EQBAKKKNKRD/Cecilia+Wright.png Our Contributors - Cecilia Wright (she/her) Cecilia Wright (she/her) is a rising Junior attending Washington University in St. Louis where she is double majoring in English and History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072054640-RSA5QRISIS2DPIVM95O2/Andrew+Yang.png Our Contributors - Andrew Yang (he/his) Andrew Yang (he/his) is a senior finishing his degree in Liberal Arts at McGill University. His poetry and poetry reviews have appeared in the Scrivener Creative Review and the Ormsby Review. Formerly the editor of Radix Magazine, his poems on environmental justice and climate change won the Mona Elaine Adilman Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072015882-AAJZFAFFA2JT2WGSI57F/Jess+Yang.jpeg Our Contributors - Jess Yang (she/her) Jess Yang (she/her) was born and raised in Orange County, California to a Korean mother and a Korean-American father. For high school, Jess attended Cate School, a private boarding institution in Carpinteria, California, and she now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is currently a rising sophomore at Bowdoin College, and she plans to major in Asian Studies with a minor in English. Jess plays for the Bowdoin Women’s Rugby Team and spends her free time skateboarding, playing any video game with a narrative arc, and writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072060090-7YRNPTMU3GC8SULVVPK9/Christian+Yeo.png Our Contributors - Christian Yeo (he/him) Christian Yeo (he/him) is an outgoing finalist reading law at Magdalene College. He won the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize in 2019, has performed at the Singapore and Lancaster Poetry Festivals, reached the semi-finals of UniSlam 2021 with the Cambridge team, and has poems published or forthcoming in The Mays, Anthropocene, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Ekstasis Magazine, and The Tiger Moth Review, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072006961-A3ODB1AVVEQYML0GDHQS/Yoela+Zimberoff.jpeg Our Contributors - Yoela Zimberoff (they/them) Yoela Zimberoff (they/them) is a rising senior at Reed College where they study Religion. They write best with a deadline and can be found scribbling into a worn composition notebook in between daily tasks. Currently working on the Hudson River, Yoela is looking forward to another fall of writing on the horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118676129-NPO10ALLQYELW4VG3Q76/Almujahid.png Our Contributors - TAHANI ALMUJAHID (she/her) TAHANI ALMUJAHID (she/her) is a Yemeni-American writer from Dearborn, Michigan. She is an undergraduate student studying English and International Studies at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She currently works with Michigan Quarterly Review as an Editorial and Marketing Assistant. She has written for the Michigan Journal of International Affairs, Michigan Daily, Writer to Writer, Spellbinder, Oakland Arts Review, and is forthcoming in other journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118676128-VEVGC8WMPSV8B1FJPTI9/Betzer.png Our Contributors - AVIVA BETZER (she/her) AVIVA BETZER (she/her) is a writer in both Hebrew and English. She majored with honors in the studies of Theory of Literature in Tel Aviv University where she presently resides, and wrote her thesis on the representations of the Freudian body in the fiction of David Vogel. Her work has been published in Caesura, Arc 26, Chambers Anthology. Her collection of poetry, Noise, published in Hebrew, came out in 2011.She is currently in her graduate studies in English Literature and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118678356-3GG92L7BWXB4CFWIHNK0/Bishop.png Our Contributors - DANIEL BISHOP (he/him) DANIEL BISHOP (he/him) grew up in London and currently studies at Cambridge University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118691156-3ADY98UQPN63WG70N1K0/broekema.png Our Contributors - KASEY BROEKEMA (she/her) KASEY BROEKEMA (she/her) born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a graduating senior at Columbia University (CC '21) majoring in English. Having been a resident of New York City for five years, you can often find her scheming up story plots in coffee shops, goggling in awe at her favorite dancers at Lincoln Center, and geeking out over Ancient Egyptian art at The Met Museum. Broekema began writing in the summer of 2020 and is thrilled to have her first story published in this issue of The Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118682894-E46BX29JX41OWBGDAHJE/Burke.png Our Contributors - DOMINIC BURKE (he/him) DOMINIC BURKE (he/him) is an undergraduate at the University of Sydney majoring in English and Philosophy. His favourite books are Moby Dick and Sometimes a Great Notion. Dominic wants to one day live in the countryside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118690354-R9LGV9MTDFIOF2S0RPYH/cabrera.png Our Contributors - FABIO CABRERA (he/him) FABIO CABRERA (he/him) Fabio Cabrera is currently a sophomore at Cornell University studying Philosophy and Biology & Society. He is from Bogotá, Colombia, and he is currently working on a project that seeks to explore the image of the Nautilus as a symbol of the complexities of his own sexual maturation as a gay man and the intricacies of human desire and loneliness in general. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118692048-KNFNNOXRCQ1Y1BEPUFZN/chan_j.jpg Our Contributors - JONATHAN CHAN (he/him) JONATHAN CHAN (he/him) graduated with a BA in English from the University of Cambridge in 2020. He will begin an MA in East Asian Studies at Yale University in 2021. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore, where he is presently based. This essay was prepared for Part I of the English Tripos under the supervision of Dr Mary Newbould. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118693358-BAWULSDGDLDKP67X26SM/Chan_s.png Our Contributors - SHANSHAN CHAN (they/them) SHANSHAN CHAN (they/them) is a writer, learner who attends the New School and works as a farmer at Brooklyn Grange. They are dedicated to pursuing ways of decolonizing through through caring, loving, and listening to our selves. They are in gratitude always to their queerness and heritage, the community these identities put them in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118693719-4F2JVSHSDSVFAHWVBJ89/Creahan.png Our Contributors - DANICA CREAHAN (she/her DANICA CREAHAN (she/her) is an LMU alum who has lived in Los Angeles (almost) her entire life. She was unschooled until high school, when she attended a performing arts charter school and majored in creative writing. She is now pursuing a career in audio storytelling and journalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118694763-XZTEX7LPW6CYU2Z4DDL8/Ewing.png Our Contributors - SOPHIA EWING (she/her) SOPHIA EWING (she/her) grew up in Washington, DC with her parents, her sister, and her cat. Currently a junior at Amherst College, she is majoring in English and Asian Languages and Civilizations. She spends her free time writing, drawing cartoons, and watching TV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118723163-RLL1NR4JWJ0KQ64K5ZUX/farris.jpg Our Contributors - BEAU FARRIS (he/him) BEAU FARRIS (he/him) is a junior at University of Colorado Boulder, where he is majoring in History and Creative Writing with an emphasis on poetry. He plans to obtain an MFA in creative writing after his undergraduate degree. He firmly believes that poetry can change the world, as it keeps influencing him every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118696988-KPXEPYZL4CA3JS6CFQ6F/gabbertas.jpeg Our Contributors - ROSE GABBERTAS (she/her) ROSE GABBERTAS (she/her) is a final year Latin and English student at UCL. She is an editor and writer for SAVAGE Journal at UCL, and is looking to pursue a postgraduate degree in journalism, with a particular interest in food writing. As well as her interest in both modern and classical literature, she is a keen cook and baker and runs a food blog, forkandfooder.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118702929-QEP2GA843ORUJL6DDAML/Galdamez.png Our Contributors - ALEX GALDAMEZ (he/they) ALEX GALDAMEZ (he/they) an inquisitive person by nature, uses their writing to critique many aspects of society and inquire about their social impacts. Their sympathy brings them to prioritize justice and representation. Their poetry reflects that and is only the first step on a long road of social work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118721620-4U5TCCOMS615MNUJHFLI/harrison.png Our Contributors - GENIE HARRISON (she/her) GENIE HARRISON (she/her) is currently a student on the American Literature MPhil at the University of Cambridge. Her avid interest in the interanimation of poetry and song inspired both her undergraduate dissertation featured in this edition, and has motivated her MPhil research, which explores the role of jazz music in the late poetry of Langston Hughes. When estranged from books, she can usually be found singing and writing herself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118723324-QQSLTG3QUEEIGI67FU80/Hollander.png Our Contributors - MAYA HOLLANDER (she/her) MAYA HOLLANDER (she/her) studies English and Film at Tel Aviv University, and works as a video editor. She likes to explore how stories - like people - tend to wander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118724838-LNK32P0U1YTK2KKT6JHT/Jousse.jpg Our Contributors - ELSASOA JOUSSE (she/they) ELSASOA JOUSSE (she/they) is a multimedia artist from France and Madagascar based in Montreal, Canada. Their main interests are poetry, spoken word, music production, and DJing under the name NGL Flounce. She has researched the politics of Afro-Asian literature during the Cold War at McGill University, the results of which are shared in this issue of The Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118725288-C4WTTYE9VPU5EC65FXYT/Lendor.png Our Contributors - CAMILLE LENDOR (she/her) CAMILLE LENDOR (she/her) is an emerging black queer poet based in Toronto, Ontario. She is a fourth-year student at the University of Toronto, graduating in June 2021 with a specialist degree in English. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118726533-Z5F5Z4D4HTLLPW2O36LX/Mahler.png Our Contributors - HARRISON MAHLER (he/him) HARRISON MAHLER (he/him) is a recent graduate of the George Washington University's undergraduate creative writing program. He writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118732664-QXVH3Y7CKZ0RLG3C1XW5/Mayer.png Our Contributors - MIRIAM MAYER (she/her) MIRIAM MAYER (she/her) is a college senior from Seattle who writes in two and a half languages. She prefers to think of herself as an idea instead of a person. When not writing, Miriam is reading, playing with her dog, or reading to her dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612300084940-5NR2EPTQTKW5VQB3BDD6/Meek.png Our Contributors - CAROLINE MEEK (she/her) CAROLINE MEEK (she/her) is a queer, environmentally-concerned poet from Kansas City, Kansas. She’s currently in her last semester at the University of Iowa, and she’ll graduate with an English & Creative Writing major and seventy-five houseplants. She also edits poetry at earthwords: the undergraduate literary magazine. You can find her at your local hardware store buying bags of soil – or on Twitter @carolinedmeek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118771137-N116O8UK3W2M053YKYJN/Moore.JPG Our Contributors - MALLORY MOORE (she/her) MALLORY MOORE (she/her) studies English Literature and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her short fiction has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she is an alumna of the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118770296-MNLMEJDJFRVSKWYKCT67/Piette.jpg Our Contributors - LOUIS PIETTE (he/him) LOUIS PIETTE (he/him) is a queer writer from Québec City, Canada. He is currently studying at McGill University, pursuing a major in English literature and a minor in philosophy. A Culprit’s Death is his first publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118775414-DUNUYVUL425X1L81YL2W/swanson.jpg Our Contributors - LILY SWANSON (she/her) LILY SWANSON (she/her) is a fiction writer at the University of Kansas. She enjoys sipping tea and eating breakfast foods while she waits for the singularity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118805115-T2HH29SJCCSY6O6E76IK/Walton%2C+Julia+Headshot.jpg Our Contributors - JULIA M. WALTON (she/her) JULIA M. WALTON (she/her) is a senior at Princeton University, where she is concentrating in English and pursuing certificates in Creative Writing, Humanistic Studies, and East Asian Studies. Her scholarly and creative work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in COUNTERCLOCK, The Paper Shell Review, Tortoise: A Journal of Writing Pedagogy, The Nassau Literary Review, Questions: Philosophy for Young People, and The Best Teen Writing of 2016. She has also been awarded the Emily Ebert Junior Prize and the Francis Biddle Sophomore Prize by Princeton's English Department. A native of the Philadelphia suburbs, she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief Emerita of The Nassau Literary Review and is pursuing two thesis projects, a novella and a long-length critical work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118831262-I8A3ZNDS00SMIX1OV61R/weber+headshot.jpeg Our Contributors - AMANDA WEBER (she/her) AMANDA WEBER (she/her) is a fourth-year English/computer science major at Grinnell College. Like most aspiring writers, she is passionate about stories and the words used to tell them. 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Her works of satire have been published in The Rib of Brown, Humor Darling, and The Belladonna. You can find out more at aribrown.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655004029337-C5WXGDJL1BIK83VQQPMY/Talia+Protos.jpg Honorable Mentions - Talia Protos Talia Protos is a recent graduate of New York University with a major in English and a minor in creative writing. She is a listener, learner, noticer, and doer of things, and continues to live in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655004257572-A1P339AR6LN1HZJ4A0M6/Tori+Ingram.jpg Honorable Mentions - Tori Ingram (she/they) Tori Ingram (she/they) is an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Foundationalist features her first poetry publication. 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Her poetry has been featured in Spectrum Literary Arts Magazine, and her research on the premed community on Reddit has been featured in Queen City Writer’s undergraduate journal. In her free time, she writes and edits for NU Sci, Northeastern’s student-run and student-written science magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1655004956631-KFLPXIFB5CAO6L9SXY06/I_Brewer.jpg Honorable Mentions - Isabella Brewer (she/her) Isabella Brewer (she/her) is a bi-racial British-American undergraduate student at Rutgers University studying English Literature. Her writing centers around the often inscrutable experiences of isolated people: from social pariahs, to the elderly, to existential time-travelers, and everything in between. She believes that through her stories, her true self will be gradually revealed. 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She sails for the university and spends any free time that she has playing around in the ocean doing various wind and water sports or climbing up mountains. She is an English major doing pre-med, and she owes her love of reading and especially writing to her sixth grade English teacher, Mrs. Robinson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200482712-C5YHWD6TT7S2WMKIHS2X/Joshua%252BLee.jpg News (Copy) - Joshua Lee (he/him) (Copy) Joshua Lee (he/him) is a third-year student at the University of Washington studying journalism and public interest communication. Following a story writing assignment in the 8th grade, Lee has practiced creative writing ever since. He is also Arts + Culture Editor at the school newspaper, The Daily of the University of Washington. You can contact him through his LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200184774-JD18YYYYDXB9P3KJG40F/Nina+Merkofer.jpg News (Copy) - Nina Merkofer (she/her) (Copy) Nina Merkofer (she/her) grew up as the fourth of five vivid children. Merkofer enjoyed a turbulent and imaginative childhood. Moving around a lot, her family and her love of books have been a constant companion in an ever-changing environment. Her great passion for reading and writing have occupied many a waking hour, leading her to study English and Political Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Surrounded by many loved ones, Merkofer aspires to keep creating and sharing her writing with the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195970527-ZPAO43G473LL2LEO4BTW/VI.ii+Authors-No-Headshots.png News (Copy) - Natsumi Meyer (she/her) (Copy) Natsumi Meyer (she/her) is a junior at Bowdoin College, majoring in Psychology and English. She has always had an interest in family histories, storytelling, and multiracial/ Asian-American identity experiences. When she’s not writing she enjoys singing in an acapella group, playing the violin with her family, and dancing anywhere and everywhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195691118-E9UB8VSUHJMXTJ1NKKEG/Paddy+Qui.png News (Copy) - Paddy Qiu (they/he) (Copy) Paddy Qiu (they/he) is an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, studying behavioral neuroscience with a minor in creative writing. Their work primarily focuses upon the navigation of spaces, emphasizing the conduits of knowledge found in ancestral trauma and the nurture of interpersonal relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644195688573-ETX5YBRUPP6CU4MM28CT/Andrea+Rodriguez.png News (Copy) - Andrea Rodríguez (she o ella) (Copy) Andrea Rodríguez (she o ella) is an Education and Latin American, Caribbean, LatinX Studies double major at Bowdoin College. She is passionate about the outdoors and enjoys exploring the natural world around her homes in Maine and the Dominican Republic. During her breaks from the college, she travels home to Santo Domingo to work as an early childhood educator and to spend quality time with her family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644199803839-ATCGT500H7VU2BMR2K41/VI.ii+Authors-No-Headshots.png News (Copy) - Kira Santana (Copy) Kira Santana currently lives on the island of Oʻahu, where she is a student, poet and hula dancer. Her work is influenced by the natural beauty of Hawaiʻi, and her childhood growing up in Norway. Kira received the 2019 Myrle Clark Award for Creative Writing, and in 2020, she was honored for her work in Creative Writing at the University of Hawai’i’s undergraduate showcase “English Represents!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644196270224-I977TCTIGIXVOMCIUMHX/Greta+Schmitzer.png News (Copy) - Greta Schmitzer (she/her) (Copy) Greta Schmitzer (she/her) is a second-year student at the University of Florida studying psychology and telecommunications. Dedicated to storytelling in various forms, she enjoys literary fiction writing, screenwriting and film production. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644199910365-FUZ5IX3DERD5F2JJIMVZ/Basia+Siwek.jpeg News (Copy) - Basia Siwek (she/her) (Copy) Basia Siwek (she/her) is a freshman at Emerson College studying Writing, Literature, and Publishing. 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This is her first ever submission of a literary paper and she could not be more thrilled to be included in this current issue of the Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200432923-6LW66A1UP2MV7RDSLXUA/Kate%2BTapscott.jpg News (Copy) - Kate Tapscott (she/her) (Copy) Kate Tapscott (she/her) is a current senior at Bowdoin College, where she is double-majoring in English and Hispanic Studies and minoring in German. She loves writing about gender in literature, and she aspires to be able to write for a living, either as a journalist or an academic. When she is not reading or writing, Kate enjoys long-distance running, rowing for Bowdoin’s crew team, and critiquing reality dating shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200641739-M6TK69SV9P5W08ALABCY/Vitiello_AJ.jpg News (Copy) - A.J. Vitiello (he/him) (Copy) A.J. Vitiello (he/him) is an emerging fiction writer and a recent graduate from The New School. He is currently Assistant to the Publisher of Street Noise Books. Fresh off a solo trek across the Trans-Siberian railway, his hobbies include wandering, Dostoevsky, queer B-movies on Netflix, and Catholic guilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1644200642559-6IS225F4OEKB86YK6WCQ/Woodford_Caitlin.jpeg News (Copy) - Caitlin Woodford (she/her) (Copy) Caitlin Woodford (she/her) is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, studying English with a concentration in literary prose, and minoring in Russian Language & Literature. Based in the Blue Ridge, she uses her writing to explore the boundaries between humanity and nature, and the stories that connect them. When not writing, she can be found working on short film projects, reading excessively, and wreaking havoc on Charlottesville’s local coffee supply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072122720-IVK3FHH2DJ18PTV62C3J/Sarah%2BAng.jpg News (Copy) - Sarah Ang (she/her) (Copy) Sarah Ang (she/her) grew up in Singapore and is currently a final-year BA English student at University College London. She has won multiple international awards for her scholarly and creative work, including first place in the Wilbur Smith Author of Tomorrow Award, first place in the iYeats International Poetry Competition (Emerging Category), third place in the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize and third place in the Ledbury Poetry Competition for Young People. Her work has also been featured in publications such as Idle Ink, Mithila Review, Alexandria Quarterly, Medusa’s Laugh Press, the Claremont Review, and the Forest for the Trees Journal, among others. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072051145-LLYXWWYE9FQUFD7ALJ1V/Sophie+Archambault.png News (Copy) - Sophie Archambault (she/her) (Copy) Sophie Archambault (she/her) is a junior at the University of Connecticut. She is majoring in English and is excited to be a part of this issue of The Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052045-PP8W8YWKK7SJALKQV0V6/Linnea+Backvall.png News (Copy) - Linnéa Backvall (she/her) (Copy) Linnéa Backvall (she/her) was born and raised in Sweden but stubbornly pursued her dream of studying abroad and is graduating with a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Edinburgh in June 2021. Interested in literature and linguistics on the academic side of things, Linnéa also harbors a deep love for fantasy and speculative fiction, and nothing fires her imagination more than world- and character-building. She has not written actively since her early teenage years but is now hoping to take up the craft once more, to one day fulfil her dream of publishing a novel. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072584111-MDCQWGDALA7XHJJS5BMZ/MADDIE+CHIU.png News (Copy) - Maddie Chiu (she/her) (Copy) Maddie Chiu (she/her) is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis studying English and East Asian Studies. She lives in Pasadena, CA with her family and shih tzu Mocha. She is always happy to hear from others, so feel free to connect with Maddie through her LinkedIn! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072005290-39KOYSB9N53AMX4TCLHJ/Kelsey+Day.png News (Copy) - Kelsey Day (she/they) (Copy) Kelsey Day (she/they) is a writer and environmental activist from southern Appalachia. They are most well known for their poetry collections "The Last Four Years" and "Rootlines." Kelsey is a contributing writer for Two Story Melody and the Head Poetry Editor for the Emerson Review. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Expositions Magazine, Stork Magazine, Astral Waters, Atlas Magazine, and Blindcorner Literary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052464-9D0X00G5ZQISZX2DRMW2/Sophia+Dienstag.png News (Copy) - Sophia Dienstag (she/her) (Copy) Sophia Dienstag (she/her) is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, where she majored in film and English and minored in German. As a senior, she served as editor-in-chief of Intercut, Wesleyan's only literary magazine dedicated to publishing writing on TV and film. She now plans to return to Los Angeles, where she grew up, to pursue a career in television writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072700033-UBYPWZKU8J73V6QRWGJ5/Joseph%2BDonato.jpg News (Copy) - Joseph Donato (he/him) (Copy) Joseph Donato (he/him) is a third-year student at the University of Toronto studying anthropology and creative writing. Aside from writing, Joseph enjoys escape rooms, Taylor Swift, and lottery tickets. He can be found @josephdonato13 on Instagram and @newartform on Tik Tok. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624071993892-HXRG1O922SZTZW9BAADI/Amanda+Hall.jpg News (Copy) - Amanda Hall (she/her) (Copy) Amanda Hall (she/her) is an English major with a CW minor. She loves beautiful people with deep voices, and worked as Editor-in-Chief of New Forum during UCI’s 2020-21 school year. After rediscovering her bisexuality last summer, she made the executive decision to be as obnoxious about it as possible. You can find her at https://twitter.com/sampaguitasound! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624071993584-9V0E6F92X6FNVEU9AGV2/Emma+Karnes.jpeg News (Copy) - Emma Karnes (she/her) (Copy) Emma Karnes (she/her) recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and Poetry Writing, and is currently pursuing her Masters of Public Policy. She has been writing poetry ever since her second-grade teacher introduced her to acrostics and diamantes and has had her work published in Rattle Young Poets Anthology, BreakBread Magazine, Tilde, and elsewhere. In addition to writing, Emma enjoys dancing and hanging out with her pups, and she's spending the current summer working on agricultural cooperative stewardship in Wisconsin. She is thrilled and humbled to have her work included in this issue of The Foundationalist! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072019192-5TORBC1FW6CGYO95CRT9/Clara+Kjelsberg.jpg News (Copy) - Clara Kjelsberg (she/her) (Copy) Clara Kjelsberg (she/her) is a graduating senior from University of Rochester, majoring in psychology and planning on attending Boston College for her Masters in Counseling. She enjoys and writing and reading pieces about fairy tales, romance gone wrong, and the connection between perceptions of reality and reality itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072785023-KU9OVR13UC0RD2AHONS0/Kate%2BKwok.jpg News (Copy) - Kate Kwok (she/her) (Copy) Kate Kwok (she/her) is a writer, translator and singer-songwriter born and raised in Hong Kong. She studies English Literature and Translation. A day in her ideal life would be sipping boba milk tea and playing her favorite songs on a Steinway grand piano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072051676-K6PB290RAY2MYH3F4DHV/Ashley+Little.png News (Copy) - Ashley Little (she/her) (Copy) Ashley Little (she/her) is a recent graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. She studied English Literature and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies with a focus on feminist literary criticism and feminist philosophy. She is especially interested in the intersections between food culture and feminism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052158-ZKBGZVF7PSKLU5ZHKP5Y/Shirley+Liu.png News (Copy) - Shirley Liu (Copy) Shirley Liu is a writer from Lafayette College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624073333465-WW5J83OGFISP67TFK5OA/Sharon+Mai.png News (Copy) - Sharon Mai (she/her) (Copy) As a recent graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sharon Mai (she/her) majored in Biochemistry and minored in English. After college, Sharon plans to attend medical school. Despite her interests in the sciences, she finds writing and reading to be an escape and a way to express her creativity. Her main inspiration comes from her family, such as by understanding what it means to be a child of immigrant parents, her Asian American identity, and cherishing relationships in the past, present, and future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072049540-2YSE6WDC6NM3Y3Y4Y9SN/Thomas+McLeod.png News (Copy) - Thomas McLeod (he/him) (Copy) Thomas McLeod (he/him) is an undergraduate in Honors English at the University of British Columbia. Thomas is currently the editor of both the blog and opinion sections of UBC’s student newspaper, The Ubyssey. You can find him on Twitter (@thomasmcleodtm) if you’d like to to subject yourself to some of the most generally senseless thoughts you’ve ever encountered. Thomas is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052949-1YC9ENOB0YW72GZ6MZUA/Neily+Raymond.png News (Copy) - Neily Raymond (she/her) (Copy) Neily Raymond (she/her) is a native Mainer of Acadian descent. She studies English and Philosophy at the University of Maine and will be a Visiting Student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072052562-6KWCJU49YNPJI2ZLKXE8/Michael+Trautmann+Rodriguez.png News (Copy) - Michael Trautmann Rodriguez (he/him) (Copy) Michael Trautmann Rodriguez (he/him) is a Puerto Rican poet and recent graduate from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in English and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072053242-COUASDJ337AZDINTU616/Samantha+Rowling.png News (Copy) - Samantha Rowling (she/her) (Copy) Samantha Rowling (she/her) is an English student at Arizona State University. She lives with her husband and son and is expecting a second child this September. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072056501-MDD93QJ48T3YOE160FJZ/Anne+Savage.png News (Copy) - Anne Savage (she/her) (Copy) Anne Savage (she/her) is a senior at Tufts University, where she studies English, French, and Film & Media Studies. She is also Head of Writing for Tufts’ only gender minority comedy group, TFL Comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072034428-BZ67MVDU37PKILBPFNRN/Ruth+Scheiber.jpg News (Copy) - Ruth Schreiber (she/her) (Copy) Ruth Schreiber (she/her) was born outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She is a rising senior at Smith College studying English with a Creative Writing Focus. Ruth has taken a variety of creative nonfiction and fiction courses and loves to explore the intimate and complex emotions around everyday life. You can contact her through her LinkedIn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072051493-BAWHXZ1WL2FET5M0CZUX/Walton%2C+Julia+Headshot.jpg News (Copy) - Julia M. Walton (she/her) (Copy) Julia M. Walton (she/her) is a recent graduate from Princeton University, where she concentrated in English and earned certificates in Creative Writing, Humanistic Studies, and East Asian Studies. Her scholarly and creative work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Philosophy World Democracy, COUNTERCLOCK, The Foundationalist, The Paper Shell Review, Tortoise: A Journal of Writing Pedagogy, Figments, The Nassau Literary Review, Questions: Philosophy for Young People, and The Best Teen Writing of 2016. Her senior thesis, entitled "The New Global Canon of Japanese Women Authors: Yōko Tawada, Minae Mizumura, Mieko Kawakami, and the Writing of a Heterogeneous Japan," was granted the Earl R. Miner Thesis Prize by Princeton's English Department. She lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. You can contact her through LinkedIn and Facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072008534-AMCQM2FG5E40L2WA42MQ/Cicely+Williams.jpeg News (Copy) - Cicely Williams (she/her) (Copy) Cicely Williams (she/her) is a 4th year English literature honours student at the University of British Columbia. Her academic research is principally concerned with gender, sexuality, and intersectionality in modernist and postmodernist texts, with a particular emphasis on extreme or alternate modes of femininity. Her creative work often explores surrealism, introspection, and femininity, and was featured in Issue #10 of The Garden Statuary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072059944-0M5GDAYZ3EQBAKKKNKRD/Cecilia+Wright.png News (Copy) - Cecilia Wright (she/her) (Copy) Cecilia Wright (she/her) is a rising Junior attending Washington University in St. Louis where she is double majoring in English and History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072054640-RSA5QRISIS2DPIVM95O2/Andrew+Yang.png News (Copy) - Andrew Yang (he/his) (Copy) Andrew Yang (he/his) is a senior finishing his degree in Liberal Arts at McGill University. His poetry and poetry reviews have appeared in the Scrivener Creative Review and the Ormsby Review. Formerly the editor of Radix Magazine, his poems on environmental justice and climate change won the Mona Elaine Adilman Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072015882-AAJZFAFFA2JT2WGSI57F/Jess+Yang.jpeg News (Copy) - Jess Yang (she/her) (Copy) Jess Yang (she/her) was born and raised in Orange County, California to a Korean mother and a Korean-American father. For high school, Jess attended Cate School, a private boarding institution in Carpinteria, California, and she now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is currently a rising sophomore at Bowdoin College, and she plans to major in Asian Studies with a minor in English. Jess plays for the Bowdoin Women’s Rugby Team and spends her free time skateboarding, playing any video game with a narrative arc, and writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072060090-7YRNPTMU3GC8SULVVPK9/Christian+Yeo.png News (Copy) - Christian Yeo (he/him) (Copy) Christian Yeo (he/him) is an outgoing finalist reading law at Magdalene College. He won the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize in 2019, has performed at the Singapore and Lancaster Poetry Festivals, reached the semi-finals of UniSlam 2021 with the Cambridge team, and has poems published or forthcoming in The Mays, Anthropocene, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Ekstasis Magazine, and The Tiger Moth Review, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1624072006961-A3ODB1AVVEQYML0GDHQS/Yoela+Zimberoff.jpeg News (Copy) - Yoela Zimberoff (they/them) (Copy) Yoela Zimberoff (they/them) is a rising senior at Reed College where they study Religion. They write best with a deadline and can be found scribbling into a worn composition notebook in between daily tasks. Currently working on the Hudson River, Yoela is looking forward to another fall of writing on the horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118676129-NPO10ALLQYELW4VG3Q76/Almujahid.png News (Copy) - TAHANI ALMUJAHID (she/her) (Copy) TAHANI ALMUJAHID (she/her) is a Yemeni-American writer from Dearborn, Michigan. She is an undergraduate student studying English and International Studies at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She currently works with Michigan Quarterly Review as an Editorial and Marketing Assistant. She has written for the Michigan Journal of International Affairs, Michigan Daily, Writer to Writer, Spellbinder, Oakland Arts Review, and is forthcoming in other journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118676128-VEVGC8WMPSV8B1FJPTI9/Betzer.png News (Copy) - AVIVA BETZER (she/her) (Copy) AVIVA BETZER (she/her) is a writer in both Hebrew and English. She majored with honors in the studies of Theory of Literature in Tel Aviv University where she presently resides, and wrote her thesis on the representations of the Freudian body in the fiction of David Vogel. Her work has been published in Caesura, Arc 26, Chambers Anthology. Her collection of poetry, Noise, published in Hebrew, came out in 2011.She is currently in her graduate studies in English Literature and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118678356-3GG92L7BWXB4CFWIHNK0/Bishop.png News (Copy) - DANIEL BISHOP (he/him) (Copy) DANIEL BISHOP (he/him) grew up in London and currently studies at Cambridge University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118691156-3ADY98UQPN63WG70N1K0/broekema.png News (Copy) - KASEY BROEKEMA (she/her) (Copy) KASEY BROEKEMA (she/her) born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a graduating senior at Columbia University (CC '21) majoring in English. Having been a resident of New York City for five years, you can often find her scheming up story plots in coffee shops, goggling in awe at her favorite dancers at Lincoln Center, and geeking out over Ancient Egyptian art at The Met Museum. Broekema began writing in the summer of 2020 and is thrilled to have her first story published in this issue of The Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118682894-E46BX29JX41OWBGDAHJE/Burke.png News (Copy) - DOMINIC BURKE (he/him) (Copy) DOMINIC BURKE (he/him) is an undergraduate at the University of Sydney majoring in English and Philosophy. His favourite books are Moby Dick and Sometimes a Great Notion. Dominic wants to one day live in the countryside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118690354-R9LGV9MTDFIOF2S0RPYH/cabrera.png News (Copy) - FABIO CABRERA (he/him) (Copy) FABIO CABRERA (he/him) Fabio Cabrera is currently a sophomore at Cornell University studying Philosophy and Biology & Society. He is from Bogotá, Colombia, and he is currently working on a project that seeks to explore the image of the Nautilus as a symbol of the complexities of his own sexual maturation as a gay man and the intricacies of human desire and loneliness in general. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118692048-KNFNNOXRCQ1Y1BEPUFZN/chan_j.jpg News (Copy) - JONATHAN CHAN (he/him) (Copy) JONATHAN CHAN (he/him) graduated with a BA in English from the University of Cambridge in 2020. He will begin an MA in East Asian Studies at Yale University in 2021. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore, where he is presently based. This essay was prepared for Part I of the English Tripos under the supervision of Dr Mary Newbould. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118693358-BAWULSDGDLDKP67X26SM/Chan_s.png News (Copy) - SHANSHAN CHAN (they/them) (Copy) SHANSHAN CHAN (they/them) is a writer, learner who attends the New School and works as a farmer at Brooklyn Grange. They are dedicated to pursuing ways of decolonizing through through caring, loving, and listening to our selves. They are in gratitude always to their queerness and heritage, the community these identities put them in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118693719-4F2JVSHSDSVFAHWVBJ89/Creahan.png News (Copy) - DANICA CREAHAN (she/her (Copy) DANICA CREAHAN (she/her) is an LMU alum who has lived in Los Angeles (almost) her entire life. She was unschooled until high school, when she attended a performing arts charter school and majored in creative writing. She is now pursuing a career in audio storytelling and journalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118694763-XZTEX7LPW6CYU2Z4DDL8/Ewing.png News (Copy) - SOPHIA EWING (she/her) (Copy) SOPHIA EWING (she/her) grew up in Washington, DC with her parents, her sister, and her cat. Currently a junior at Amherst College, she is majoring in English and Asian Languages and Civilizations. She spends her free time writing, drawing cartoons, and watching TV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118723163-RLL1NR4JWJ0KQ64K5ZUX/farris.jpg News (Copy) - BEAU FARRIS (he/him) (Copy) BEAU FARRIS (he/him) is a junior at University of Colorado Boulder, where he is majoring in History and Creative Writing with an emphasis on poetry. He plans to obtain an MFA in creative writing after his undergraduate degree. He firmly believes that poetry can change the world, as it keeps influencing him every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118696988-KPXEPYZL4CA3JS6CFQ6F/gabbertas.jpeg News (Copy) - ROSE GABBERTAS (she/her) (Copy) ROSE GABBERTAS (she/her) is a final year Latin and English student at UCL. She is an editor and writer for SAVAGE Journal at UCL, and is looking to pursue a postgraduate degree in journalism, with a particular interest in food writing. As well as her interest in both modern and classical literature, she is a keen cook and baker and runs a food blog, forkandfooder.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118702929-QEP2GA843ORUJL6DDAML/Galdamez.png News (Copy) - ALEX GALDAMEZ (he/they) (Copy) ALEX GALDAMEZ (he/they) an inquisitive person by nature, uses their writing to critique many aspects of society and inquire about their social impacts. Their sympathy brings them to prioritize justice and representation. Their poetry reflects that and is only the first step on a long road of social work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118721620-4U5TCCOMS615MNUJHFLI/harrison.png News (Copy) - GENIE HARRISON (she/her) (Copy) GENIE HARRISON (she/her) is currently a student on the American Literature MPhil at the University of Cambridge. Her avid interest in the interanimation of poetry and song inspired both her undergraduate dissertation featured in this edition, and has motivated her MPhil research, which explores the role of jazz music in the late poetry of Langston Hughes. When estranged from books, she can usually be found singing and writing herself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118723324-QQSLTG3QUEEIGI67FU80/Hollander.png News (Copy) - MAYA HOLLANDER (she/her) (Copy) MAYA HOLLANDER (she/her) studies English and Film at Tel Aviv University, and works as a video editor. She likes to explore how stories - like people - tend to wander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118724838-LNK32P0U1YTK2KKT6JHT/Jousse.jpg News (Copy) - ELSASOA JOUSSE (she/they) (Copy) ELSASOA JOUSSE (she/they) is a multimedia artist from France and Madagascar based in Montreal, Canada. Their main interests are poetry, spoken word, music production, and DJing under the name NGL Flounce. She has researched the politics of Afro-Asian literature during the Cold War at McGill University, the results of which are shared in this issue of The Foundationalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118725288-C4WTTYE9VPU5EC65FXYT/Lendor.png News (Copy) - CAMILLE LENDOR (she/her) (Copy) CAMILLE LENDOR (she/her) is an emerging black queer poet based in Toronto, Ontario. She is a fourth-year student at the University of Toronto, graduating in June 2021 with a specialist degree in English. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118726533-Z5F5Z4D4HTLLPW2O36LX/Mahler.png News (Copy) - HARRISON MAHLER (he/him) (Copy) HARRISON MAHLER (he/him) is a recent graduate of the George Washington University's undergraduate creative writing program. He writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118732664-QXVH3Y7CKZ0RLG3C1XW5/Mayer.png News (Copy) - MIRIAM MAYER (she/her) (Copy) MIRIAM MAYER (she/her) is a college senior from Seattle who writes in two and a half languages. She prefers to think of herself as an idea instead of a person. When not writing, Miriam is reading, playing with her dog, or reading to her dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612300084940-5NR2EPTQTKW5VQB3BDD6/Meek.png News (Copy) - CAROLINE MEEK (she/her) (Copy) CAROLINE MEEK (she/her) is a queer, environmentally-concerned poet from Kansas City, Kansas. She’s currently in her last semester at the University of Iowa, and she’ll graduate with an English & Creative Writing major and seventy-five houseplants. She also edits poetry at earthwords: the undergraduate literary magazine. You can find her at your local hardware store buying bags of soil – or on Twitter @carolinedmeek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118771137-N116O8UK3W2M053YKYJN/Moore.JPG News (Copy) - MALLORY MOORE (she/her) (Copy) MALLORY MOORE (she/her) studies English Literature and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her short fiction has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she is an alumna of the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118770296-MNLMEJDJFRVSKWYKCT67/Piette.jpg News (Copy) - LOUIS PIETTE (he/him) (Copy) LOUIS PIETTE (he/him) is a queer writer from Québec City, Canada. He is currently studying at McGill University, pursuing a major in English literature and a minor in philosophy. 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She has also been awarded the Emily Ebert Junior Prize and the Francis Biddle Sophomore Prize by Princeton's English Department. A native of the Philadelphia suburbs, she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief Emerita of The Nassau Literary Review and is pursuing two thesis projects, a novella and a long-length critical work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab3b81d9772aeff2c7a6922/1612118831262-I8A3ZNDS00SMIX1OV61R/weber+headshot.jpeg News (Copy) - AMANDA WEBER (she/her) (Copy) AMANDA WEBER (she/her) is a fourth-year English/computer science major at Grinnell College. Like most aspiring writers, she is passionate about stories and the words used to tell them. 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