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colleagues. Outside of music, she loves to<br />

cook, watch psychological horror films, and<br />

play Sid Meier’s Civilization V.<br />

Divya Mehrish is a writer and student at<br />

Stanford University. Her work has been recognized<br />

by the National Poetry Competition,<br />

the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, the<br />

Scholastic Writing Awards, and the Columbia<br />

College Chicago’s Young Authors Writing<br />

Competition. Her writing has been published<br />

in or is forthcoming from Sojourners, PANK,<br />

Coastal Shelf, Prairie Margins, Broken Pencil,<br />

Roadrunner Review, Blue Marble Review,<br />

Polyphony Lit, Tulane Review, and Amtrak’s<br />

magazine The National, among others.<br />

Miranda Navarro is a 20-year-old artist<br />

from Argentina. She’s studying to be an ESL<br />

teacher, but in her free time she likes to draw<br />

and paint. Miranda is interested in different<br />

forms of art-making, such as drawing, making<br />

music, cooking, building, creating, writing,<br />

digital painting, etc. She had been working<br />

as a digital artist on Instagram during the<br />

pandemic until she decided to take a break.<br />

Besides studying, Miranda currently makes<br />

hand-made paintings on clothes with acrylics.<br />

Lauren Pan, from Dallas, TX, is a part of the<br />

class of 2024 at Johns Hopkins University,<br />

majoring in Biomedical Engineering and<br />

potential minoring in Applied Mathematics<br />

and Statistics. On campus, she’s involved in<br />

Hippocrates Med Review, Engineering without<br />

Borders, TEDxJHU, Phi Mu Sorority, and<br />

a few others organizations. In her free time,<br />

she loves to play ice hockey, waste time on<br />

TikTok, and play WordHunt on GamePigeon.<br />

Sebastian Petersen enjoys creating abstract<br />

sculptures and illustrations as a form<br />

of relaxation between working on highly<br />

symbolic illustrations about his culture, and<br />

family history. This piece is no exception and<br />

speaks to a place inhabited by strange fishlike<br />

beasts at the edge of consciousness. Sebastian<br />

lives in San Francisco with his dog<br />

and partner, where he beach combs and<br />

thrifts during his off hours to fire supplies for<br />

art projects.<br />

Philipp Schmitt (he/him; b. 1993, Germany)<br />

is an artist, designer, and researcher<br />

based in Brooklyn, USA. His creative practice<br />

engages with the philosophical, poetic,<br />

and political dimensions of computation.<br />

Philipp’s works include installations, artist<br />

books, websites, photography, and sound.<br />

His current work addresses opacity and<br />

imagination in artificial intelligence research<br />

and its history.<br />

Silvana Smith is a visual artist and writer<br />

born in Sicily and raised in Florida. She<br />

recently graduated from The University of<br />

North Florida with a degree in fine arts. She<br />

pursues sculpture, photography, illustration,<br />

printmaking and any other practice that can<br />

help convey ideas. Her creations typically<br />

focus on linework, longing and language.<br />

Her art and poetry have been published in<br />

Folio Weekly, Backslash Literary, Honeyfire<br />

Literary Magazine, The Giving Room Review,<br />

Baby Teeth Journal and The Luna Collective.<br />

You can find more of her baking , art making,<br />

poetry and quarantine activities through Instagram<br />

@eggexplorer.<br />

Kara Theart creates physical images of<br />

loneliness with the space itself having an effect<br />

on the subjects within.<br />

Ofem Ubi is a Poet, Photographer and Film<br />

maker from Nigeria. He was shortlisted for<br />

and also published in the Deep Dreams<br />

Anthology of the Nigerian Students Poetry<br />

Prize, 2018 and has been published in the<br />

Inkwell Journal. He seeks to fuse art genres<br />

into documentation. Presently using film,<br />

poetry, photography to tell time, archive the<br />

present and explore the nuance that exists<br />

in memory, the divine and Nigeria generally.<br />

His works are displayed in his social media<br />

handles as well as his YouTube channel.<br />

Hannah Villanueva is an emerging writer<br />

and photographer from Palmer, Alaska. Living<br />

with a mental illness for her whole life,<br />

her work is focused on observing the earth<br />

as a source of healing for the mind, body,<br />

and soul. She values the art of stillness as<br />

a daily cultivating practice. Currently she is<br />

pursuing a degree in film and media studies.<br />

In navigating her identity as a multiracial,<br />

Latinx, Asian-American woman, she hopes<br />

to portray wholeness in her creating.<br />

Heath Joseph Wooten (he/him) is an MFA<br />

candidate at Northern Michigan University.<br />

He is an associate poetry editor at Passages<br />

North, an upcoming guest reader at perhappened<br />

mag, and was recently nominated for<br />

inclusion in the Best New Poets 2021 Anthology.<br />

He is an avid collector of cassettes and<br />

other obsolescences, and you can find his<br />

work in or forthcoming from mutiny!, Dear,<br />

perhappened, and others.<br />

Kate Hayashi<br />

Editor<br />

Rukan Saif<br />

Editor<br />

Lea Wang-Tomic<br />

Editor<br />

Yumnaa Aboosally<br />

Design<br />

Esther Suyoung Moon<br />

Design<br />

Audrey Pham<br />

Design<br />

Jisoo Hope Yoon<br />

Poetry Reader

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