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Editor-in-Chief: Pooja Muthuraj

Pooja is a current Master’s in Business Analytics candidate ('26) at the College of William and Mary and incoming Master's in Theological Studies candidate at Harvard University who has let poetry write her for as long as she can remember.  Her recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Last Leaves Magazine (2025), Hedge Apple Magazine (2025), Furrow Magazine (2025), Rainy Weather Days (2025), The Shallot (2025), Noetica (2025), The Gallery (2024), Amethyst Review (2026), and Intervals (2026).  She was a finalist for the 2025 Goronwy Owen Prize in Poetry and placed in the top five of the 2024 Historic Triangle Grand Slam, and her first chapbook, "18, Whatever that Means," was published in 2023 by BookLeaf Publishing.  You can follow her on Threads @paadi_padutthuraval, where she occasionally shares work.

Managing Editor: Salma Amrou

Salma Amrou is an Egyptian-American writer and poet. She was awarded the 2021 Frank Keegan “Take No Prisoners” Award for News by Youth Journalism International, titled the 2022 Youth Poet Laureate of Southeastern Virginia, and awarded the 2025 Academy of American Poets Prize at the College of William & Mary. She is also a Research Writer for the Palestine Diaspora Movement. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Poets.org, Rattle, A Long House, Poetry Is Currency, and elsewhere.