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Jua Kim

Jua Kim is a writer from Southern California. An alumna of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, Kelly Writers' House, and the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, she has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and the Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation. She also edits for Polyphony Lit and her school's literary magazine. When she's not writing prose, she's trying to finish her graphic novel.

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Haeun (Regina) Kim

​​Haeun (Regina) Kim is writer from South Korea. An alumna of the Iowa Young Writers Studio, Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, SUNHOUSE Summer Writing Mentorship, and the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, she has been recognized by Bennington College, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Bow Seat, and more. Her works have been published in Diode Poetry Journal, Rust & Moth, and The Apprentice Writer, among others. 

Poetry Reader

Eleanor Kang

Eleanor Kang is a high school senior located in San Jose, CA. She believes that writing is the most powerful medicine, and hopes to bring healing to the table in all that she does. She is the editing director of the Creative Writing Club at her school, has attended the California State Summer School of the Arts as a 2024 CA Art Scholar with a focus in prose, written a short film at the New York Times Summer Academy, and dabbled in poetry with creatives at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference.

Poetry Reader

Leah An

Leah is a teenage poet living in San Diego. She likes to make poetry out of word magnets and enjoys devouring Trader Joe’s green tea infused mints. Leah previously attended several creative writing programs, and she wants to share her love for words!

Prose and Poetry Reader

Nadyne Sattar

Nadyne Sattar is a Bangladeshi writer from the Twin Cities and the 2025 National Student Poet of the Midwest. A two-time YoungArts winner with multiple national Scholastic Writing Awards, her work appears in the Minnesota English Journal, Blue Marble Review, and elsewhere. She also edits for Pollux Journal, Cathartic Lit, and JADE&COMPASS. When not writing, she can be found rereading R. F. Kuang and Donna Tartt novels. Find her on Instagram @nadyneish.

Prose Reader

Isaac Harder

Isaac Harder is a writer from Washington, DC. An alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth’s Fiction and Poetry program, he serves as a managing editor of his school’s nationally recognized Literary and Visual Arts Magazine and leads Creative Writing Club. Outside of writing, he’s passionate about politics and art.