ISSUE III

ic with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits
include eleven Pushcart nominations, ten
chapbooks and appearances in the Best
Canadian Poetry & BestNewPoemsOnline,
among others across 46 countries. Recently,
Yuan served on the Jury for Canada’s 44th
National Magazine Awards (poetry category)
and published a Chinese poetry collection.
Andrea Chow (she/her) is a Chicana/Central
American writer from Southern California
and a student at Yale. Her work has
been honored by the Ventura County Poetry
Project. In her free time, you can find her
performing slam poetry at her local library
or going for long hikes in the Santa Monica
Mountains. She also has her own blog, andreasarea.weebly.com.
You can find more of
her poetry in Changing Womxn Collective,
MixedLife Media, Periphery Journal, and antifragile
zine. Reach her on Instagram @andrea.chow
or by email andrea.nicole.chow@
gmail.com
Jaina Cipriano is a Boston based artist
working with photography, film and installation.
Her work explores the emotional toll of
religious and romantic entrapment through
immersive sets and emotional performances
that mirror the subconscious.
Eoin O’Dowd is an artist from Dublin, living
and working in Helsinki. The following two
works submitted to Sienna Solstice, are from
an ongoing body of work titled Emotional Illiteracy.
Each hand cut collage is an image of
itself re-imagined. Thematically, Eoin’s work
references violent personal experiences and
employs a volatile and frenetic kind of energy.
The work concerns that emotional illiteracy
, taught, and ubiquitous in a masculinity
that is aggressive and reactionary.
Ricardo General is a photographer, documentary
maker, who began his career in
2010, recording social movements in Chile.
In his career he has explored areas of registration
in performing arts, cultural heritage
and diverse cultures around the world with
publications in various Chilean and Latin
American magazines such as National Geographic
in Spanish. In 2018, he held the exhibition
Shades de Thailand, which would
later be transformed into a book produced
by the Royal Thai Embassy describing the
most important aspects of Thai culture. His
photography has always been linked to unraveling
the intimate aspects of each cultural
manifestation as well as the environment
within the daily life in the places he visits.
Photography must be a journey.
Christian Leon Guerrero is an Asian American/Pacific
Islander freelance illustrator
and fine artist based in San Francisco, California.
Born and raised in the Bay Area and
Los Angeles, Christian earned his Bachelor
of Arts degree from California College of the
Arts. His choice of medium is a diverse range
of traditional materials. He strives to depict
dreamy and nostalgic imagery through color,
shape, and form. He currently creates work
for editorial magazines as well as galleries
throughout the U.S.
Amelia Horney (b. 2001) is a New York and
Los Angeles based composer whose work
has always been very emotionally and visually
driven. She is deeply inspired by collaboration,
other art-forms, the human condition
and subconscious, and her natural
surroundings. Recently, she has been specifically
fascinated by expansive and surreal
imagery, from both paintings and from her
own dreams. Through her music, Horney
seeks to share her inner emotional experience
and create spaces that spark curiosity
and reflection within the listener. Horney
has participated in summer festivals such as
Curtis Summerfest Young Artist’s Summer
Program for Composition, Boston University’s
Tanglewood Institute Young Artist Composition
Program, and the Lake George Music
Festival Composer Institute, where she
has had several works premiered by faculty
and peers. Horney is currently pursuing
a Bachelor of Music in Composition at the
University of Southern California, Thornton
School of Music, and has studied privately
with notable composers such as Saad
Haddad, Alyssa Weinberg, Andrew Norman,
Veronika Krausas, and Ted Hearne. When
she is not composing, you can find Amelia
creating light installations and playing with
her adorable Labrador Retriever, Percy.
Jisu “Jisutice” Kim is a painter based in
Seoul, South Korea. She finds it very unusual
to write about herself in the third person,
but will give it her best effort. She graduated
from the college of Fine Arts at Kyunghee
University, but has since developed her own
painting style by purposefully un-learning
what she learned in school. She would say
that what really taught her the most about
art was a moment when she found little wild
flowers which look very fragile, but have an
instinctual tenacity and passion for life. She
believes that such qualities are necessary
for a healthy society to exist, and so those
flowers, without saying a word, provided her
with the realization of what she wants to do
with her painting.She is making a conscious
effort to do her part in inspiring others to feel
passionately grateful for being alive by creating
paintings and sharing her everyday life
on social media, and existing quietly, similarly
to the wild, natural world. You can always
feel free reach out, connect, and get inspired
by finding her on instagram; @Jisutice
Makino Kinjo grew up in a small island of
Japan, Okinawa. She majored in American
Literature in Bunkyo university. While she
was in Canada as an exchange student, she
became interested in photography by borrowing
her friend’s camera. Then she started
talking photos as her hobby. Her photography
has no specific genre, but mainly focuses
on realistic and well composed moment
happens in ordinal life. She respects Japanese
photographer Kishin Shinoyama.
Sol Paz Kistler is interested in exploring
how the culture of military imperialism specific
to the U.S. infuses and informs civilian
life, values, identities and desires through
their writing. While they are primarily a visual
artist, they write short stories to supplement
and expand on an image. They have
not lived long, but they have lived in all four
corners of the continental United States and
currently reside in Kealakekua, HI.
J.I. Kleinberg, in the unrelenting battle
against doggerel and sloth, wields recycle-bin
magazines, x-acto knife, and glue.
Her visual poems, which explore the accidental
syntax of unintentional phrases, have
been published in print and online journals
worldwide. An artist, poet, freelance writer,
and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net
nominee, she lives in Bellingham, Washington,
USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Aliza Li is a freshman at Johns Hopkins University,
studying writing and cognitive science.
Her work has been recognized by Aerie
International, Canvas Teen Literary, and
the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She
spends most of her free time glued to a computer
screen or hanging out with friends at
her local boba shop. Her favorite album to
listen to while writing is Takatoshi Naitoh’s
“In The Forest”.
Sophie Mathieu has won numerous awards
for her work writing music for diverse mediums.
Her music explores concepts of vastness,
timelessness, and ethereality. Collaboration
is a key facet of her artistic practice.
Sophie is a first year masters student at the
University of Texas at Austin. She completed
her undergraduate at the University of
Southern California, earning the distinction
of “Outstanding Graduate in Composition”
when she finished her studies. In addition
to composing, Sophie plays cello, frequently
performing her own works and those of her