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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