Volume 1 Team

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    Lena Kraus

    Founder, Editor-in-Chief

    Favourite Book: The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

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    Zala Jambrovic Hatic

    Executive Editor

    Favourite Worlds: Post-Shift Atlanta, Westeros, Middle-earth, the Starless Sea

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    Lauren Thurman

    Copy Editor

    Favourite Authors: N. K. Jemisin, Lauren Groff, Virginia Woolf

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    Amos O'Connor

    Art Director

    Favourite Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy

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    Marshea Makosa

    Digital Marketer

    Favourite Genre: Literary Fiction, Humour, Surrealism

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    Juliann Guerra

    Website Manager

    Favourite Books: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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    Wren True

    Workshop Coordinator

    “All you have to do is to write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.“
    - Ernest Hemingway

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    Alex Penland

    Community Liaison

    Favourite Books: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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    Julia Guillermina

    Financial Coordinator

    Favourite Genres: Historical Novels, Romance Novels, Poetry

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    Alice Rogers

    Editor

    Favourite Authors: Joan Didion and Chuck Palahniuk

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    Alyssa Osiecki

    Editor

    "Have no fear of perfection- you'll never reach it."
    - Salvador Dali

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    Claire O'Connor

    Editor

    Favourite Story Collections: “In the Country” by Mia Alvar, “Friday Black” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, “The Tsar of Love and Techno” by Anthony Marra

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    Eileen Vandergrift

    Editor

    Favourite Book: You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

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    Hanna-Maria Vester

    Editor

    "Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost."
    - Andrea Gibson

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    Hayley Bernier

    Editor

    "Though experience may resist or elude language, it is the task of the poet to circle what can't be said until something of its smell, sound, taste, and gesture appears on the page."
    - Lorna Crozier

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    Katie Hay-Molopo

    Editor

    Favourite Books: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis, Calvin & Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson

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    Lola Gaztañaga Baggen

    Editor

    “It is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.”
    - Diana Wynne Jones

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    Michael Howrie

    Editor

    “Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.”
    - Diana Wynne Jones

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    Miriam Huxley

    Editor

    Favourite Books: Hotel World by Ali Smith, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

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    Nicole Christine Caratas

    Editor

    Favourite Books: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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    Tess Simpson

    Editor

    Favourite Books: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

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    Anthi Cheimariou

    Editor

    Favourite Book: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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    Elena Sims

    Editor

    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.”
    - The Little Prince