Jacob Deason
Jacob Deason is a writer who lives in Long Beach, CA. He prefers spending his time watching horror movies, writing poetry, reading, lounging in nature, and listening to music.
Griffin Fay
Griffin Fay is a prose poet from Southern California. He has worked for law firms, children's hospitals, medical translation companies, and most recently, in the prison system, teaching poetry. He is currently serving as the poetry editor of Faultline.
Alexandra Geurts
most puntable 2nd year poet & los angeles public transit aficionado
Andie Klarin
Andie Klarin is a first year poetry student returning to Orange County after a brief stint making trouble in Indianapolis. You can find their work in miniskirt magazine, Harpur Palate, and the Chaotic Merge zine.
Vidhisha Mahesh
Vidhisha is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Marc Huerta Osborn
Marc Huerta Osborn is a writer, educator, and college admissions counselor from Alameda, California. His poetry can be found in Rust + Moth, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. His biggest creative inspirations are pelicans, pozole, and ghosts.
Lauryn Payne
Lauryn is a self-proclaimed suburbanite turned poet. She earned her BA in Sociology from Chapman University where she would discover her passion for lyricism. Her work focuses on familial dynamism, trauma and identity. Consequently, her work can be found in several keepsake boxes in her parent’s closet, brother’s birthday cards and half-full diaries.
Ray Reidenbaugh
Ray Reidenbaugh is a first-year poetry student currently based in Long Beach. She has a BA in creative writing and theatre from the University of Denver, as well as an MA in poetry from the University of Roehampton London. She’s always ready for a conversation about horror films, music, or her two (very lucky) black cats. If you can’t reach her, it’s likely she’s head-banging at a concert or getting lost in the desert.
Sara Son
Sara Son is a writer from Queens. She holds a BA from Johns Hopkins. She is working on some poems, essays, and a novel.
Mishal Syed
Mishal is a poet and fiction writer. She holds a BA from UCLA, where she received the Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the May Merrill Miller awards in both poetry and fiction, and the Clara Rusk Hastings scholarship. She is working on a poetry collection and a magical realism book.
Xuân Tran
Xuân is a curious poet from Santa Ana, California. She achieved her BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing from UCI. Currently, she's a testing clerk for the school district she grew up in. (You may consider her homegrown or a homebody--both are interchangeably appropriate.)
Camila Valle
Camila Valle is a writer, editor, translator, horticulturalist, and abortion doula. She loves crosswords, karaoke, and repurposing jars. Her translation of Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze by the Chilean feminist art collective LASTESIS is out from Verso Books.
marion eames white
marion is a queer trans poet from New York. They are a tattoo artist, a scholar of religion, and a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow. They hold a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Alexandria Brooke Williamson
Alexandria Brooke Williamson is a poet whose current endeavors include a poem about holding hands with Blue and a play about the mysterious fate of an unidentified substance caught between a forefinger and a thumb. Alexandria holds a degree in photography from the University of Notre Dame, and they once famously shoveled an entire ham off Dallas asphalt. Their favorite objects in poetry are Dorianne Laux’s old flames and dust and Rae Armnatrout’s pigeons - clean because of the morning. A special place in their heart is occupied by Andy Warhol’s drawings of feet and Agnes Varda’s spaghetti dinners.
