Writers

Aashna Agarwal

Aashna Agarwal is a first-year student at New York University, studying Journalism and Computer Science. She defines herself by her love for words and expression, striving to empower others every day.

Colette Bernheim

Cierra Bettens

Cierra Bettens is a word and lens-based creative making and feeling things in her homeland of the Canadian prairies. In between her creative endeavors, she studies politics and philosophy, hoping it will one day bring her toward the very lucrative profession of journalism. On most days, you’ll find her photographing old lovers on street corners, writing notes about people on public transit, and overusing the love-letter emoji.

Bella Bromberg

Meghan Chiew

Meghan Chiew is a 20-year-old writer from Sydney, Australia. She has recently moved into a sunny apartment by the beach and is pursuing her medical degree at the University of New South Wales. In her free time, Meghan can be found making brunch plans, applying for a million part-time jobs she doesn’t need, contemplating her role as part of the immigrant story, and writing on her blog.

Paige Chu

Paige is a 20-something-year-old and a recent graduate of the University of Toronto, where she studied health policy and human geography. Her hobbies include making bad art and Photoshopping her tiny white dog onto movie posters. She is an avid coffee drinker, a mosquito magnet, and a former dancer who can now barely touch her toes.

Haley Chung

Haley Chung is a writer from Vancouver, Canada. She’s currently a freshman at Columbia University, where she is pursuing a double major in Film Studies and Human Rights with a specialization in Middle Eastern Studies. In no particular order, she’s a huge fan of Sesame Street’s Abby Cadabby, the smell of pool chlorine, Michael Bublé, dreaming about hazy summers, and key changes in the Frozen soundtrack.

Angelica Crisostomo

Angelica Crisostomo is a 19-year-old creative based in New York. While currently a writer, she’s an aspiring journalist, non-profit business owner, and documentary filmmaker with plans to travel the world and tell as many stories as she can. She drinks a lot more coffee than her mother approves of, is constantly trying to remember French grammar rules, loves activism and people, and spends most of her time listening to Maggie Rogers and Lorde on loop, angry that she didn’t write their songs first.

Logan Cross

Logan Cross graduated from Long Beach State University with her degree in journalism and PR and a minor in dance. As a student, she also spent time as the Creative Director for PRSSA Long Beach and as a contributing writer for on-campus press outlets The Daily 49er and 22 West Magazine. When she isn’t writing and keeping up to date on all things news-related, she’s making magic as a dancer at Disneyland.

Sarah Mae Dizon

Sarah Mae Dizon studies Media Production and Criticism at George Mason University and dreams of the Blue Ridge Mountains in her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. As the child of Filipinx immigrants, she is deeply interested in her place in the diaspora. She loves pastels, poetry, and pistachio ice cream.

Simisola Fagbemi

Simisola Fagbemi is a Nigerian-American creative who calls too many countries home. A freshman at Yale University, she currently spends her time between New Haven and Toulouse, where she’s either crafting prose, advocating for racial justice, or trying to convince her friends she can sing.

Gabriella Ferrigine

Gabriella Ferrigine is a 22-year-old creative writer and thinker from New Jersey. She has a passion for New York City, tiny moments, her Doc Martens, pasta, and purple flowers. Gabriella graduated this year from Columbia University, receiving her B.A. in English. She will be attending graduate school for her M.A. in American Studies at Columbia as well. Looking to the future, she would like to use her degree to pursue a career in law or journalism, and work toward social justice/reform. Gabriella embraces her Pisces energy wholeheartedly, goes on runs to feel alive, and is always looking for the beautiful and the weird in the world. You can also find her work in Columbia’s The Blue and White.

Alice Garnett

Born and raised in northern England, Alice’s heart will always belong to the rolling hills of her rural hometown. But when she’s not enjoying the British countryside, she’s studying hard at the University of Oxford where she has the pleasure of reading English at Lady Margaret Hall—one of the few Oxford colleges where your “social background” simply doesn’t matter. Her extracurriculars include casual sex, photography, the color pink, and a weekly column she writes for a student newspaper. Like many Brits, she’s happiest down the pub with a pint, chips (proper chips), and her friends for company.

Natalie Geisel

Natalie Geisel is a 22-year-old freelance writer, digital strategist, and graduate of gender and sexuality studies. When she’s not writing, you can find her watching (and obsessing over) queer films, talking about mental health and astrology with everyone she meets, or crying to Phoebe Bridgers’ music. She is an avid wearer of sweater vests and consumer of iced oat milk lattes.

Ellie Greenberg

Ellie Greenberg is a 17-year-old writer, musician, and lover of all things Frank O’Hara hailing from Rockville, Maryland. When she’s not writing poems by the minute, you can find her worshipping Phoebe Waller-Bridge or playing the guitar. Forever an observer, she hopes to follow in her mother’s footsteps and somehow become involved in the literary industry. You can find her on instagram at @elliergreenberg.

Sheena Holt

Sheena Holt is a nineteen-year-old writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She attends Emory University, where she studies Creative Writing and Political Science. She loves folk music, goat cheese, and anything written by Toni Morrison. A fiction-enthusiast at heart, she tends toward socially conscious writing, though she never shies away from the satirical. In addition to Lithium, you can find her work at The Emory Spoke.

Mya Ison

Mya is a lover of quiet mornings, Southern food, and “bad” 2000s movies. She is in her third year studying theatre at Boston University with a concentration in African-American studies and playwriting! Her current thought experiments include reading and processing all of Audre Lorde’s work, existential feminism, and redefining the period drama canon.

Jordinna Joaquin

Jordinna is a writer from Jakarta, Indonesia. When she’s not at a concert or on a motorcycle in the middle of hellish traffic, she’s curled up somewhere writing her next article (or arguing with someone on Twitter). She’s either going to major in journalism, take a gap year, or run away with her cat and disappear forever.

Sophie Johnson

Sophie Johnson is a 19-year-old writer from Portland, Oregon. Her love for problem-solving finds its roots both in computer science, her field of study at Barnard College, and her writing. In her free time, Sophie can be found crafting uber-specific Spotify playlists, searching the streets of New York for the best matcha latte, and exploring new trends in fashion and design.

Tamara Jones

Tamara Jones is a writer and freelance publicity/marketing gal for film and performance companies in Toronto, Canada. She usually writes about communities—digital and IRL—and the intersection of pop culture and politics. When she’s not working or jumping headfirst into a new passion project, she can be found “running errands” with an iced americano in hand and the same three albums on repeat.

Kenneth Kim

Kenneth Kim is an 18-year-old freshman attending the University of Southern California. He’s obsessed with activism and discourse surrounding the LGBTQ+ community, race relations, socialism, and what type of pasta is the best. (For the record, it’s rigatoni.) At any given moment, he can be found idolizing Matty Healy, playing yet another game of League of Legends at 5 A.M., reorganizing his Spotify playlists, and writing away his heartbreaks through poetry.

Eleanor Lee

Due to her love for words as well as her affinity for dissecting bullshit, Eleanor is currently pursuing a double major in English and Political Science at the University of Toronto. Born in Vancouver and raised both there and in Hong Kong, she strives to bridge cultural gaps with her writing and loves to vlog and impulsively overshare. When she isn’t working out ways to bend the rules, she loves to paint people, listen to Hans Zimmer, and try to write poetry the way A24 screenwriters write dialogue. She also periodically dabbles in making crying look pretty.

Esme Lee

Esme Lee is a film enthusiast and music lover. Her top five desert island records are as follows: Favourite Worst Nightmare, Is This It, The Velvet Underground, On the Beach, and When the Pawn. She’s become increasingly interested in furniture and knitting, which must be a sign of aging.

Jasmine Li

Jasmine Li spent her formative years in Hong Kong and now studies Journalism and Sociology at Boston University. She’s working toward a career in documentary filmmaking and loves discovering international and independent films. On her days off, she can be found playing with analog cameras or headbanging to The Strokes.

Jack Loney

Jack Loney is from what has to be the rainiest part of Oregon, but will be moving to Boston soon to study film at Emerson College. He does a little of everything, from writing to theatre to dance to making short films, but his greatest love will always be TV shows. His current favorite is Babylon Berlin! His dream job is whatever Amy Sherman-Palladino has going on, but he’ll always make time for writing articles and short stories.

Maya Page

Maya Page is an 18-year-old writer studying English and Women’s Studies at Vassar College. In addition to personal essays and culture pieces, she can often be found writing poetry and short fiction, usually about queer romance. She plays bass, listens to Phoebe Bridgers excessively, and is rarely seen outside without a blazer on.

Andrea Panaligan

18-year-old Andrea Panaligan is a writer and photographer from the Philippines. Currently a behavioral sciences student, her work usually revolves around coming of age and how adolescence is simultaneously nothing and everything. Her other passions include film, ideas of identity and the process of selfhood, feminism, mental health, and young adult literature.

Kelly Pau

Kelly is a 22-year-old writer from New York City with bylines in Salty Magazine, Mochi Magazine, and Elite Daily. She is passionate about the ways pop culture intersects with social justice and wearing crop tops in winter. You can typically find her headbanging to 100 Gecs, drinking iced coffee, or hanging upside down during aerial practice. She does not know Staten Island exists.

Audrey Pettit

Audrey is a student at Barnard College studying English and Political Science. She enjoys curating a personality that makes her seem more interesting than she is, writing lots of lists, and listening to a concerning amount of podcasts. Audrey has danced her entire life, and at this point, she’s not sure how to stop. In her writing, she enjoys thinking about identity, grief, and relationships, among other things.

Sophia Peyser

Sophia Peyser is a 17-year-old avocado enthusiast who lives for reading on the subway and searching New York for the perfect iced coffee. When she’s not writing for her school newspaper, reading Donna Tartt novels, or running around taking yearbook photos, she’s usually writing movie reviews on Letterboxd or scouring the internet for Timothée Chalamet-related paraphernalia.

Emma Pirnay

Emma Pirnay is a 21-year-old freelance writer and psychology graduate based between the UK, France, and Luxembourg. She loves the little things in life, crême brulée, Bergman films, and cultural theory. In her spare time, she can be found playing the guitar, listening to ’70s folk, going for long cycles, and trying to get through her never-ending watchlist.

Jill Risberg

Jill Risberg is a writer currently studying Theatre and English at The University of Texas at Austin. She loves the color green, public transport, fresh air, and trips to the library.

Isabelle Robinson

Isabelle Robinson is a writer and aspiring Twitter fiend from Parkland, FL. She is currently a rising junior at Barnard College in NYC, pursuing a degree in English with concentrations in Creative Writing and Theatre. Outside of class, she can be found perfecting the quintessential nude lip, Facetiming her beloved cat, and clomping around campus in Doc Martens. For more shenanigans and links to previous bylines, including the New York Times and Business Insider, follow her on Twitter @isabellerobz.

Eliza Rudalevige

Eliza is a nineteen-year-old aspiring writer from various places, but most recently from Brunswick, Maine. She is a rising sophomore at Columbia University studying English and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is in long-term love affairs with T.S. Eliot, Bon Iver, and Saoirse Ronan and has recently begun one with the slightly-problematic-yet-charming Jack Kerouac. You can also find her work at the Columbia Blue and White and Maine Women’s Magazine.  

Marie Sanford

Marie Sanford is a writer from Atlanta, Georgia currently attending Yale University. Through her various musings, she aims to offer honest takes on the terrifying endeavor which is your late-teens/twenties from the perspective of a Black, queer, Southern woman. When she isn’t writing, you can find her avidly scrolling through Horoscope or Skincare twitter, auditioning songs for her many mood-based Spotify playlists, or visualizing her New York City Cool Girl post-college lifestyle.

Irène Schrader

Irène Schrader is a writer and musician from France and China, and is currently pursuing a BA in Arts, Culture, and Media in the Netherlands. When she isn’t writing articles and songs, you can most likely find her on her way to teach children English or exploring whichever city she currently lives in.

Kaiya Shunyata

Kaiya Shunyata is a film studies student and writer from Ontario, Canada. A staff writer for Obscur Magazine and Scratch Cinema, her work has also appeared in Screen Queens and FlipScreen. She loves reading sad 20th-century poetry, listening to ’60s music, and watching horror films. If she’s not on Twitter talking about the next genre hit, you can find her writing several screenplays in her room.

Kiddest Sinke

Kiddest Sinke is a 22-year-old journalist, creative writer, and visual artist with a passion for internet culture, music, and politics. Kiddest graduated this year from Yale University, receiving her B.A. in English Literature. Through her writing, she aims to explore the intersection of technology, race, and gender. In her free time, she runs an Instagram art account, makes TikTok videos, and is a songwriter and band member of the comedy-pop duo “cybergirlfriend.”

Jadie Stillwell

Jadie Stillwell is a native swamp dweller who recently moved back to the suburbs of D.C. after graduating from Barnard College with a B.A. in English. Her work has appeared in Barnard Echoes, Nearness, and Interview magazine. She aspires to aspire to aspirations. She lives in the James L. Brooks cinematic universe, not a society.

Sofia Voss

Sofia is a twenty-year-old filmmaker and writer pursuing a double major in Film Production and Art History at the University of Missouri. Her specialization is LGBTQIA+ representation in long-form media, and she has many opinions on why 10 Things I Hate About You is the highest form of rom-com in existence. She is currently establishing a Midwest-based film production company with her brother, while writing an academic research paper on Indigenous Two Spirit self-representation in short film. Sofia is a fan of Phoebe Bridgers’ sad, horny music, the Talking Heads, and Agnès Varda’s filmography.

Raven Yamamoto

Raven Yamamoto is a print and audio journalist whether it be for radio or podcast. They currently are balancing the worlds of journalism and political science at Loyola Marymount and are the founder of their university’s first independent and alternative news collective.

Derya Yildirim

Derya is a 21-year-old girl who has recently graduated with a BSc Business Administration degree from the University of Amsterdam. In her free time she enjoys people-watching, making uncalled-for, sarcastic comments, and writing satirical cultural commentaries to relieve bottled-up frustrations. In the future, she hopes to pursue a career in (digital) marketing, yet otherwise remain unchanged by the passage of time.

Leena Yumeen

Leena Yumeen is a 19-year-old writer studying Political Science. Born in Canada and raised in the U.S., she’s passionate about relearning American history through the lens of activists, artists, and organizers. She aims to investigate youth identity, culture, and politics through her writing.