Our Readers
Our readers are more than an audience—they are part of the story,
turning poetry into a shared experience.
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Taskin Quagliani
Taskin Quagliani is a mixed-race South African writer with Italian and Asian lineage and it was her diverse upbringing which spawned a love of expression through writing.
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Nazia Kamali
Nazia is a reader, writer, dreamer, and Artificial Intelligence trainer based in Dehradun, who fell in love with writing at a young age.
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Keegan Thoranin
Keegan Thoranin (any/all) is a creature whose comforts lie in the uncomfortable, the unpalatable, the raw. Words have always eluded her as much as nourished her;
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Yvonne Aore
Yvonne Aore is a Kenyan fiction writer whose work explores intimacy, ritual, power, and the unseen forces that shape ordinary lives.
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Ann Varkey
Ann is a uni student studying biology that loves to read and write in her spare time
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Daniel Cloyd
Daniel Cloyd is a second-year student attending Howard University, majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing.
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Ayòdéji Israel
Ayòdéjì Israel is a Pushcart Prize and BotN nominee. He is a finalist for the 2025 Rhysling Award.
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Alicia Chen
Alicia Chen is a writer and student from Shanghai, China, currently living in Atlanta, USA.
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Amy Lemuz-Gurra
Having grown up in a Spanish-speaking household, Amy Lemuz-Guerra credits her English fluency to reading the Junie B. Jones series on the school bus.
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Brittany Thorpe
Brittany holds a Master’s in Design with a focus on design research, specialising in inclusive design practices. Her interest in storytelling informs both her research and design work.
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Laura Tate
Laura is a poet, retired elementary school teacher and grandmother who lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Claire Guo
Claire Guo is a writer based in San Jose, California. Her work has been recognized by the Adroit Prizes in Prose and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and is published or forthcoming in The New York Times,
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Dominic Anthony
Dominic Anthony (He/They) is a Black, queer poet with roots in Missouri and Arkansas. They learned the power of words through their grandmother who often said, “you have to be able to name a demon to cast them out”.
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Johannah Simon
Johannah Simon is a corporate learning strategist by day and (sometime) creative by night. A Midwest GenX multi-genre writer,
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Lily Sadighmehr
Lily Sadighmehr is a substitute teacher with a love of poetry and bookstores. Her work appears in Miniskirt Magazine, Nowruz Journal, Stone Pacific Zine.
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Drew Payne
Drew Payne (she/her) has a BA in Creative Writing with a minor in journalism from the University of North Texas, where she still resides.
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Wisdom Adediji, NGP xi
Wisdom Adediji, NGP xi, is a Nigerian genre-bending writer. His works have appeared on Icefloe press, Blue press, Weganda review, NND poetrycolumn and elsewhere.
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N. Sehar
Sehar is a poet, writer, and design student currently residing in Kolkata, India. Her work has been featured in The Hooghly Review, Gulmohur Quarterly, Broken Antler Magazine, Livewire (The Wire), Poems India
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Yasmin Tehrani
Yasmin Tehrani is a NYC based writer currently finishing her M.A. in Literature, Language, and Theory at CUNY Hunter College where she focuses on modernist studies.
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Abu Ibrahim
Abu Ibrahim popularly known as IB is a Nigerian poet whose work has caused tremendous influence and change.
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Eleanor Graydon
Eleanor Graydon (She/They) is a part-time university student at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, with an avid love for writing poetry and her work as a freelance editor.
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Dr Sara Louise Wheeler
Dr Sara Louise Wheeler writes the columns ‘O’r Gororau’ (from the borders) for Barddas Welsh poetry magazine and ‘Troi cerrig’ (turning stones) for Golwg360 Welsh news platform, for which she also undertakes freelance reporting.
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Zarish Khalid
Zarish Khalid is a professional content writer, researcher and mentor from Pakistan. In 2021, she completed her undergraduate studies in English Literature,
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Emily Bryant
Emily Bryant is a recent graduate of English Literature with a passion for writing, editing and research.
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Aaliyah André
Aaliyah André is a student at University of Galway pursuing a degree in English and Creative Writing with Classics. Originally from the island of Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, she is an active member of the society life at UG.