Meet our Editors!
Rome Smaoui
Rome Smaoui is a Tunisian poet and writer born in 2003. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, SMOKE Magazine, Litbreak Magazine, Rejected Literature, and other places. She was recognized by Palette Poetry’s 2022 Emerging Poet Prize. In 2021, she was featured in Narrative Magazine’s 30 Under 30 List. She has recently received her English Literature with Creative Writing Degree at the University of Manchester. Upon graduating, the university awarded her the 2024 George Gissing Memorial Prize for her Fiction and the 2024 Alun Lewis Prize for her Poetry.
romesmaoui@gmail.com
@sometimesromeo
Ryan French
Ryan French is a queer writer from Colorado. Their work has been recognized by William Faulkner Short Story Competition, and their high school senior portfolio won an honorable mention from Scholastic Art & writing in 2020. Their main focus has been making their own zines and publishing them independently. Currently they are studying at St. John’s College in New Mexico.
ryanfrench987@gmail.com
@corcles
An Lin Hunt-Babcock
An Lin Hunt-Babcock is an Asian American writer whose work has been published in the 2023 Summer Issue of The Coachella Review, the 2021 Fall/Winter Edition of Élan Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. Her high school senior portfolio won a Regional Gold Key at the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and she was a finalist in the 2019 William Faulkner Short Story Writing Competition. She is currently an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley.