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Editor-in-Chief
Talan Tee
Talan Tee is a Taipei-based poet born in Phoenix, Arizona. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Chestnut Review, Cleaver Magazine, West Trade Review, and CutBank, among others. He is a National YoungArts Winner in Writing/Poetry, a Scholastic Gold Medalist, and a Best New Poets nominee. A 2026 Djanikian Scholar and an Anthony Quinn Scholar, he edits for Polyphony Lit and is Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal. Talan is a sophomore at Taipei American School.
Founder & EIC, Afterbodies
Senior Editors
Kaitlyn Bai
Kaitlyn Bai is a writer and student from Seattle, Washington. She is a YoungArts Winner with Distinction in Fiction, a Scholastic Gold Medalist and Best-in-Grade Award recipient, and a Seattle Youth Poetry Fellow. She reads prose for Eucalyptus Lit. When not writing, Kaitlyn is drawing, debating, or listening to the Seattle rain.
Senior Prose Editor, Afterbodies
Genevieve Watson
Genevieve Watson is a high school student based in Los Angeles, California. She is a 2026 Scholastic Gold Medalist, as well as a 2025 finalist for both the Adroit Prizes in Poetry and Prose and Best New Poets. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Wildness, The Adroit Journal, The Incandescent Review, and more. When she is not writing, she enjoys playing with her dog and spending time at the beach.
Senior Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Editors
Juliana Pan
Juliana Pan is a poet, writer, and visual artist from Bellevue, Washington. She has received the Foyle Young Poets Award from the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom and a Silver Medal for Poetry from the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and her recent work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins, Roanoke Review, the minnesota review, and grist poetry. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and loves her grandma’s cooking.
Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Ema Bekic
Ema Bekic is a student at Interlochen Arts Academy, studying creative writing. Her work has been featured in Blue Marble Review, Eunoia Review, and DePaul Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, and is forthcoming in Albion Review. She is the editor-in-chief of Etymos Review, a literary magazine for young writers. She will be attending Yale University in the fall.
Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Kaviya Dhir
Kaviya Dhir is the 2025-2026 Houston Youth Poet Laureate and a proud Houstonian. True to her namesake, Kaviya originates from the Sanskrit word for poetry. Her work reflects her family’s rich background and experiences—spanning the regions of South America to South Asia—as well as her passion for community service and the commonality of human emotion. She is a 2025 commended Foyle Poet and her work has appeared in Columbia Journal, the Oxonian Review, Wildness, and elsewhere.
Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Lasya Hota
Lasya Hota is a high school student based in New York. Her writing has been recognized nationally by the YoungArts Foundation, where she was named a 2026 Winner with Distinction in Fiction, as well as by the Scholastic Writing Awards and the Adroit Journal’s Prizes for Poetry and Prose. Her work also appears in Blue Marble Review and Incandescent Review. In her writing, she is interested in how prose and poetry can engage questions of identity, memory, and social change, and is particularly drawn to work that moves between realism and more speculative forms.
Prose Editor, Afterbodies
Jocelyn Hayes
Jocelyn Hayes is a junior at Northeastern University studying Business Administration and Experience Design. She serves as Art & Literature Section Designer for Artistry Magazine and co-hosts I Found You A Poem on WRBB 104.9FM, a radio show dedicated to discussing poetry and pairing it with good tunes. A Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key recipient, her work has also appeared in The Spectacle at Washington University in St. Louis. Outside of writing, she has modeled and styled for Artistry Magazine and The Avenue, and most recently walked in The Fashion Society’s SYNESTHESIA show. She is currently launching an independent magazine with friends as an experiment in creative direction and getting more comfortable with failure.
Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Riana Pliskin
Riana Pliskin is a high school student from Houston, Texas. She has been published in Falcon Wings, Falcon Quill, iWRITE, iWRITER Magazine, and the Young Pegasus Anthology. Riana has won six Gold Keys and one National Silver and Gold Medal for Poetry from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and was named a 2023 iWRITE Star Poet. Last summer, she studied Creative Writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, where she earned the Fine Arts Scholarship Award and the Promising Young Artist Award. Recently, she was a finalist for the Virginia B. Ball Scholarship, a full-tuition scholarship for Interlochen Arts Academy. This summer, she will be studying at Kenyon’s Young Writers Workshop as well as participating in the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program.
Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Tanvee Tirthapura
Tanvee Tirthapura is a student-writer from California. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Aside from writing, she enjoys making soup and playing with her cats.
Prose Editor, Afterbodies
Yossi Eun-Chong Rosen
A passionate and omnivorous reader and writer, Yossi Eun-Chong Rosen is a 2026 YoungArts Winner with Distinction in Writing / Fiction and 2025 YoungArts Award Winner for Fiction and Non-Fiction, Gold Medalist in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition for Flash Fiction, Oxford Flash Fiction Prize New Voice Award Winner, and the William Wisdom-William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition Winner for Short Story by a High School Student. He is an alumni of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program and merit-scholarship recipient for Interlochen Arts Camp for Creative Writing. Multiracial and interfaith with a family background that spans Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Yossi’s pieces often touch on themes of identity and gender.
Prose Editor, Afterbodies
Hana Tsai
Hana Tsai is a poet, violinist, and student at The Spence School and Juilliard Pre-College. A recipient of multiple National Gold Medals from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Hana has also been appointed as the 2026 New York State Youth Poet Laureate. Her poems have been recognized by the Bennington Young Writers Awards, the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, and the Storm King Poetry Contest & Festival. Her works have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Roanoke Review, Cargos and elsewhere. Hana’s work explores themes of womanhood and cultural inheritance, which she will continue to develop at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and with the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program in the summer of 2026.
Poetry Editor, Afterbodies
Readers
Adina Miller
Adina Miller is a poet from the Tampa Bay area. An alum of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, she is a Scholastic Gold and Silver Medalist who writes mostly prose poetry, lyric essays, and free verse. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading literary fiction, rewatching Lord of the Rings, or drinking an iced chai.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Holden Ellis
Holden Ellis is an International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidate at Anderson High School in Austin, Texas. His poetry work has been recognized with awards from Scholastic, DePaul’s Blue Book, and the Chicago Young Writers Review. In addition to written verse, Holden is active in the local Slam Poetry community, where he’s in his second year of a poetry residency at the Vortex Theatre.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Polina Korobitsyna
Polina Korobitsyna is a student poet from San Jose, California. Her poetry explores intersections between gender, society, and family. When she isn’t writing poetry, she enjoys long walks with her friends and listening to music.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Khaliya Rajan
Khaliya Rajan is an undergraduate student and author residing in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2024 Amazon Canada / The Walrus Youth Short Story Award. Her work has been published in The Walrus, the featured column of The Greyhound Journal, and multiple anthologies.
Prose Reader, Afterbodies
Lorelle Lawson
Lorelle Lawson is a sophomore Literary Arts major at Appomattox Regional Governor’s School. She earned a Gold Key from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for her poetry. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting and meeting new people.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Indira Lakshmi Raparthi
Indira Raparthi is a student-writer based in New York City. Her poetry work has been recognized by Just Poetry, 1455 Books, and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In addition to writing, she enjoys math, the visual arts, music, volunteer work, and watching Jeopardy!
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Micaelan Rossnagel
Micaelan “Caelan” Rossnagel is a budding contemporary writer based in Greenville, South Carolina. She spends her time exploring new side quests, finding inspiration in the facets of the mundane and overlooked, and collecting rejections from various literary magazines as a reminder to never stop failing. Her work has won several regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, as well as a National Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Medal, and she hopes to publish her work in literary magazines and competitions.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Cecelia Tivey
Cecelia Tivey is a sixteen-year-old writer from Connecticut. Her work has been published by American High School Poets (2025) as well as recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She is currently a junior at Greens Farms Academy, where she is working on writing a book of poems exploring the beauty of human anatomy. When she isn’t writing, she’s tutoring, volunteering with students impacted by educational inequities, or reading her favorite author R. F. Kuang.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Ellison Peace
Ellison is a graduating senior from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. This fall, he will attend Washington College, where he plans on majoring in Environmental Science and minoring in Creative Writing. In his free time, he enjoys fishing, fiber arts, and horticulture.
Prose Reader, Afterbodies
Cam Joyce
Cam Joyce is a junior studying creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her writing has been recognized by committees like the National Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, Blank’s Young Playwrights Festival, DePaul’s Blue Book, and more. Most recently, her work appears or is forthcoming in Fiction on the Web, Flash Fiction Daily, Bubble Tea Literary. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading superhero comics and watching sitcoms.
Prose Reader, Afterbodies
Ananya Mandrekar
Ananya Mandrekar is a sophomore at Millburn High School in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in Blue Marble Review, The Milking Cat, and JUST POETRY!!!. She has received recognition from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, The New York Times, DePaul University’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, the Poetry Society of Virginia, and others. In her writing, she explores memory, language, and culture.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
Rex Tee
Rex Tee is a writer and debater based in Taipei, Taiwan. His writing is forthcoming in the Eunoia Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, and other publications. A top-ten finalist at national debate circuits such as the Berkeley Invitational, he can be found reading Tolstoy, or trying to chew Swedish fish. He is a rising freshman at Taipei American School.
Poetry Reader, Afterbodies
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