Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Grace Zhang (she/her) is a ​poet and student from the United States. Her work has been nationally recognized by the Alliance of Young Artists & Writers and the Live Poets Society of New Jersey. Her work is published in Paper Crane Journal, Blue Marble Review, and Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine. Besides writing, she enjoys making new playlists on Spotify, grape hi-chews, and mystery novels.

Poetry Editor
Claire Pinkston is a seventeen-year-old biracial Black poet and writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has previously been recognized at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and is forthcoming in Ice Lolly Review and the B’K. She is growing with her poetry.

Prose Editor
​Terra Ungson is a Filipina scribbler of poems and small stories. She is currently studying Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and is known for her warm hugs and crocheting during meetings. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Ampersand, Girl Up Philippines, Southchild Lit, and Northern Otter Press. You can find her rambles on her twitter, @_antukingpato.​

Prose Editor
L.H. (she/her) is a 17-year-old student in her last year of high school, and has always enjoyed the art of creative writing. Having won first place prose for one literary magazine and served as assistant editor of another, she spends much of her time immersed in the very craft she hopes to hone. If not writing the long-procrastinated second draft of her novel or reading thrifted books, she is fantasising new plot twists and stylistically ignoring Google Docs’ grammar suggestions.

Poetry Editor
Nicole Verbitsky (she/her) is a 20 year-old writer from Northeast PA. Between her day job and evenings of experimental poetry sessions, she listens to the occasional fiction podcast and one of her many themed music playlists. If she isn't reading or writing, she is attempting to build a website for her current project, "the bee jar."​​

​Prose Editor
Ilnaz Faizal is a South-East Asian woman who's been in love with reading and writing since she can remember. She loves delving into the worlds of fantasy and thriller through her works of poetry, prose, and screenplays. When she's not practicing her craft and convincing herself that she is a good writer, she can usually be founding sleeping, sewing, or procrastinating.​

​Prose Editor
Shunmei (Sophia) Zheng's favorite activity is writing in her own travel blog/photo-album. During the summer, she spends around a month traveling to various national parks- whether it be hiking, mountain biking, or kayaking. She has collected photos from all her journals, and is planning on reupdating my travel-photo blog on my journey. She has two parakeets in my house, and when she grows up she would like to own a parrot. She can play the piano and violin, but have gotten rusty on those skills and am working towards redeveloping her musical talents. Her favorite genres of books include mystery and Young Adult Fiction, with her favorite author being Agatha Christie. She has several comfort TV shows, including Manifest, Stranger Things, and Lost. She also wishes to major in Biology on a pre-health track.

Graphic Designer
Nicolei is a Filipino creative who cannot call herself an artist. She's a university student by the day, aspiring to be a public servant in the future. Meanwhile, at night (and mostly during her free time), she lives as a frustrated illustrator, literary writer, and imaginary dreamer. While the world revolves normally, she likes defying a rhythm by creating her own path. She aspires to be as free as the stars and as happy as the sun someday. She loves preserving life in photographs and reliving moments through journaling. She believes in the revolutionary ground of life, dreams, and love.

​Graphic Designer
Fiona Jin is a writer and artist in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Her work is in or forthcoming at Kissing Dynamite, Rust + Moth, & recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She is an alumna of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship.

​Poetry Editor
Pragnya Haralur (she/her) is a South Asian teen writer. Her work has been published in A Velvet Giant, VIBE, Farside Review and elsewhere. She is a finalist for Best of The Net 2023. She likes chess, nonlinear narratives and Mitski amongst other things and hopes you are having a good day.

Graphic Designer
Valerie Drew [they/them] has been worming out of the Earth for a while. She is a young, queer, fat, and autistic writer and designer based in Eastern Massachusetts. Their poetry has been or upcoming in Fifth Wheel Press, Stone of Madness Press, Delicate Friend and Exist Otherwise, among others. She has a special interest in western animation despite not being able to illustrate.

Poetry Editor
​Nandini Rabindra Maharana (she/her) is a STEM student & writer based in Delhi, India. She was born in the year 2004. Her work has previously appeared in Aurora Journal, Ice Lolly Review, etc. In her spare time, she reads novels and often outlines some. She's a big fan of a good playlist and would appreciate if send some on her twitter handle. You can find more about her on: https://nandini.carrd.co.

Poetry Editor
Laura Wang is a poet, musician, and student based in Massachusetts whose work has previously been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. When dragged away from her laptop, however, she enjoys spending her time playing chamber music with her friends and rereading her favorite books for the 10th time.

Poetry Editor
Caitlin Villacrusis is a Filipina-American poet, a passionate photojournalist, and a self-confessed pessimist. A communications major and junior at a South Florida arts school, she is a Miami Book Fair “Speak Up” Student Ambassador and Poetry Mentee, and she edits poetry at Hot Pot Magazine. Her work has been recognized by Gigantic Sequins and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and is published or forthcoming in Seeds in the Black Earth Literary & Arts Magazine and Sophon Lit. She can be found screaming about Victoria Chang on Instagram at @catrose2022 or Twitter at @caitlinvwrites.

​Poetry Editor
Taylor Calonzo (she/her) is a student from Southern California. Her work has been published in Asians in the Arts, The Weight Journal, Babbles Magazine, and more. She is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Iris Youth Magazine, and she currently edits at Cathartic Literary Magazine, Youth4Arts, and Seaglass Literary Magazine. Aside from poetry, she considers herself an enthusiast of iced lattes, Wong Kar-wai films, and Mitski.

Staff Contributor
Ian Monchesky (he/him) is a 17 year old writer and former competitive swimmer based in Halifax, N.S. He is the Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Wild Thyme Literary, a literary journal targeted at young, developing artists. He is currently in the editing phase of his novel, Reflections. When he's not writing, he can be found getting hopelessly lost while hiking through the woods.​

Marketing Manager
Quinn Huang (they/them) is still in their California era even after coming home from an exchange student scholarship program to UC Davis. When they're not writing stories about queer Asians, they're doing their best surviving the trenches of social media work. Either or, they always have a large iced coffee that makes them walk twice as fast as everyone else.

​Poetry Editor
Thanisha Chowdhury is a high school student from Virginia. When she is not reading, writing, or editing, Thanisha can be found learning various languages or crocheting small sweaters for her friends' cats.

Poetry Editor
Vivian Huang is a young poet from Irvine, California. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Eunoia Review, Polyphony Lit, The Ice Lolly Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and Princeton University, among others, and she is the founder of The Cloudscent Journal. You can find her on Twitter @viviannhg_.​

​Marketing Manager
Leanne Ubaldo (she/her) is a Filipina ICT student with an interest in creative writing and design. She is the founder & editor-in-chief of Angelique Zine. Besides creating, she can be found on the internet coding her website, chatting with friends, & learning new things. She is online on Twitter and Instagram @leanneubaldo.

Prose Editor
Phylicia Walker (she/her) is a black writer, playwright, self-proclaimed pen snob, and Washington D.C. native. Drawn to the absurdity of the mundane, she finds a deep fascination and love for twisting and romanticizing the trivial aspects of day to day life. When she's not haunting the stationary section of her local bookstore, she can be found curled up with her Nintendo Switch.

Poetry Editor
Shannon Bazir (she/her) is a high school senior and lover of all things creative from Massachusetts. She also edits for Cathartic Literary Magazine.

Poetry Editor
​Hannah Cole Orsag loves discussing narrative and storytelling in all forms, from illuminated manuscripts to stage plays to poetry. Her writing centres on themes of memory and home and has appeared onstage and in journals such as Speaking of Marvels, Emerge Literary Journal, and Dust Poetry Magazine. Find her on Twitter @hannahorsag.

Staff Contributor
Shreya Senthilkumar (she/her) is currently a high school student living in North Carolina. She is a staff writer for her school’s newspaper and a columnist for Ice Lolly Review. When she is not writing, she can be found wandering around Barnes and Noble or managing her school’s calligraphy club. You can follow her on Twitter @http_shreya.​

Poetry Editor
Janice Lin is a student from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is published or forthcoming in Tigers Zine and the National Poetry Quarterly, and she also edits for some literary magazines. In her free time, she enjoys worldbuilding, theorizing about TV shows, and trying new boba shops with her friends.

​Prose Editor
Phoebe Bennett (she/her) is a full-time media student hailing from the Northwest of England. She spends the majority of her free time reading and writing, and particularly likes works of fiction that centre female or otherwise marginalised identities. If you would like to contact her directly, her twitter username is @capyhorror- a combination of her love for horror and her love for the strange and mysterious kiwi-bodied capybara.

Poetry Editor
Megan Ridgway is a British poet, writer and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is currently studying an MLitt in Creative Writing. Her poems can be found in Storyteller's Refrain (Issue 2) and Alchemy (2022 Issue).

Poetry Editor
Abby Gemechu is a high school junior in Ohio. She currently works as a prose and poetry editor for Polyphony Lit and The Lunar Journal, in addition to serving on the board of the online publications Fade into Hue and the Catalyst magazine. Ever since she can remember, she has always been fascinated by the intricacies of language and a tiny bit in love with the word "intricacy" itself. She likes to think she's a reader, though her TBR list is stretching well past its limit, despite many of the titles remaining, as the name suggests, unread. You can probably find her searching for a new podcast, lamenting the lack of a skip option on Spotify playlists (but still using the app to listen to a somewhat excessive amount of music regardless), or switching the theme of her Gmail home page nearly every other week.​

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Graphic Designer
Hello. It’s nice to meet you, my name is Maya Encarnacion and I’m a 17 year old Filipina-American. My pronouns are she/her and I really like spaghetti and earthworms. Any experience and award I’ve ever received is from my school or myself (lol), and I’m actively trying to expand my horizons. :)​

Poetry Editor
Aren (they/them) is a self-taught writer who loves long walks, plants and drawing silly little faces on papers. Their daily activities are getting lost among books, drinking chai tea with milk and thinking a while in the afternoons, working on their poems and petting cats they see on the road. They also like soup a lot.

Graphic Designer
Hi, my name is Andy Tang (he/him), I am the graphic designer of The Lunar Journal. I have experience in Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and several other programs. Currently, I am a high school student and I have a job at a sushi restaurant as an informal assistant manager. In my free time, I enjoy making YouTube videos and drive around town to find exciting new places.

Previous Staff Members:
Michelle Rochniak - Poetry Editor
Rosalind Kong - Staff Contributor
​Maggie Wang - Poetry Editor
​Kaydance Rice - Staff Contributor
Ann De Leon - Poetry Editor