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THE ADROIT JOURNAL SUMMER MENTORSHIP 2018 BOOKLET LEARN : CO LL A B O R AT E : GROW
About the Program Application Details
In its sixth year, The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship The Writer’s Statement should detail each applicant’s specific
Program is an entirely free and entirely online program that interest in pursuing the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship
pairs experienced writers with high school and secondary Program. What is it about our program and mission that piques
students interested in learning more about the creative writing your interest? Why this workshop? How would you spend your
processes of drafting, redrafting and editing. The 2018 program time with us? We want to know. Aim for 1.5 pages double spaced,
will cater to the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. and don’t be afraid to be creative and original. We like that.
The aim of the mentorship program is not formalized instruction
as with other programs, but rather an individualized, flexible, and While we suggest mentioning experience and accomplishment
often informal correspondence. Poetry students will share weekly with writing and workshop, we evaluate applications looking
work with mentors and peers, while fiction and nonfiction students primarily for passion and interest. We’d also like to suggest that
will share biweekly work with mentors and peers. you review the mission, ambition, and content of the journal for
inspiration, if you find yourself stuck.
We are very proud of our alumni from this program. Alums have
subsequently been recognized through the National YoungArts Students may apply to multiple genres by utilizing both the First
Foundation & United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts Choice and Second Choice options in the mentorship application
designation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the form linked below. Important: If you wish to apply to more than
Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, among others. Click here to one genre, please include two complete writing samples, one for
view the mentorship alumni college list. each genre, with your second-choice genre following your first.
The program will last from June 24, 2018 until August 4, 2018, The Writing Sample should consist of between four and five poems
and will be capped at fifty students. Students must have access to or between eight and ten pages of fiction or nonfiction (excerpts
the Internet for the duration of the program, and must be able to acceptable). If you’d like, you may upload an Academic Transcript
complete all weekly writing and peer-reviewing activities. to supplement your application.
Please note that this opportunity will not offer academic credit Questions?
(this is a friendship, not a class!), and that participation in the work- Visit us online: www.theadroitjournal.org/mentorship
shop is not a route to publication in the journal. Say hello: editors@theadroitjournal.org
The Application Submission Details
The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program will evaluate As noted, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program will
mentee applications via our submission manager. Applications evaluate mentee applications via our submission manager.
for this year’s program will be accepted between March 15, 2018 Applications for this year’s program will be accepted between
and May 1, 2018. March 15, 2018 and May 1, 2018.
Applications for this year’s mentorship program consist of two Admissions decisions will be released in May, and successful
mandatory parts—a Writer’s Statement and a Writing Sample. applicants will be notified by the end of April.
MENTOR
INDEX
10 Gabrielle Bates : POETRY MENTOR 18 Stevie Edwards : POETRY MENTOR
11 Alyse Bensel : POETRY MENTOR 19 Aidan Forster : POETRY MENTOR
11 Garrett Biggs : FICTION MENTOR 19 Denice Frohman : POETRY MENTOR
12 John-Michael Bloomquist : POETRY MENTOR 20 Melissa Goodrich : FICTION MENTOR
12 Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello : POETRY MENTOR 20 Andrew Gretes : FICTION MENTOR
13 Sylvia Chan : NONFICTION MENTOR 21 Benjamin Gucciardi : POETRY MENTOR
13 Victoria Chang : POETRY MENTOR 21 Jacqueline He : STUDENT ASSISTANT
14 Mario Chard : POETRY MENTOR 22 Ben Hoffman : FICTION MENTOR
14 Chen Chen : POETRY MENTOR 22 Carlie Hoffman : POETRY MENTOR
15 Hannah Cohen : POETRY MENTOR 23 Christina Im : STUDENT ASSISTANT
15 S. Brook Corfman : POETRY MENTOR 23 Kasey Jueds : POETRY MENTOR
16 Kevin Coval : POETRY MENTOR 24 Peter Kispert : FICTION MENTOR
16 Caroline Crew : NONFICTION MENTOR 24 Dan Kraines : POETRY MENTOR
17 Meg Day : POETRY MENTOR 25 Peter LaBerge : FOUNDER & CO-DIRECTOR
17 Dana Diehl : FICTION MENTOR 25 Paige Lewis : POETRY MENTOR
18 Ryan Dzelzkalns : POETRY MENTOR 26 Ananda Lima : FICTION MENTOR
MENTOR
INDEX
26 Erinrose Mager : FICTION MENTOR 32 Claire Schwartz : POETRY MENTOR
27 Rachel Inez Marshall : POETRY MENTOR 32 Analicia Sotelo : POETRY MENTOR
27 Rachel Mennies : POETRY MENTOR 33 Glenn Stowell : FICTION MENTOR
28 Carly Joy Miller : CO-DIRECTOR 33 Eshani Surya : FICTION MENTOR
28 Matt W. Miller : POETRY MENTOR 34 John Taylor : POETRY MENTOR
29 Jason Myers : POETRY MENTOR 34 Noah Warren : POETRY MENTOR
29 Natasha Oladokun : POETRY MENTOR 35 Keith S. Wilson : POETRY MENTOR
30 Kwame Opuku-Duku : FICTION MENTOR 35 Jay G. Ying : FICTION MENTOR
30 Ben Purkert : POETRY MENTOR 36 Emily Jungmin Yoon : POETRY MENTOR
31 Doug Ramspeck : POETRY MENTOR 36 Charity Young : FICTION MENTOR
31 Brynne Rebele-Henry : FICTION MENTOR
WENDI YAN, “TRIPTYCH” (ISSUE TWENTY-FOUR)
2018 ALYSE BENSEL
MENTORS
Alyse Bensel is a PhD fellow in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at the
University of Kansas. Her recent poems have appeared in or are forth-
coming from Pleiades, New South, Puerto del Sol, South Dakota Review,
and elsewhere. The author of two chapbooks, Not of Their Own Making
(dancing girl press) and Shift (Plan B Press), she serves as the Book Reviews
Editor at the Los Angeles Review.
Favorite Writers:
GABRIELLE
Elizabeth Bishop, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plath
BATES
Gabrielle Bates works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and serves on GARRETT
BIGGS
the editorial boards of the Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Broadsided
Press, and Bull City Press. Her poems and poetry comics appear in Poetry,
New England Review, the Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Best of the Net, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of support from
the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Artist Trust, and the University of
Washington, where she received her MFA in Poetry. Originally from
Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle. Garrett Biggs grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His most recent
prose has appeared in a wide array of literary journals, including CutBank,
Nashville Review, the Offing, SmokeLong Quarterly, New South, and
Favorite Writers: elsewhere. He is pursuing his MFA in Fiction at the University of Colorado,
Zora Neale Hurston, Shane McCrae, Toni Morrison Boulder, as the recipient of the John F. Barker Memorial Fellowship, and
serves as the Managing Editor of the Adroit Journal.
Favorite Writers:
Anne Carson, Shane Jones, Selah Saterstrom
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JOHN-MICHAEL
BLOOMQUIST SYLVIA CHAN
John-Michael Bloomquist is a poet living in Poland as an English teacher Formerly a jazz pianist in the San Francisco East Bay, Sylvia Chan lives
with his wife Victoria Miluch, a writer and translator. He has volunteer in Tucson, where she teaches at the Writing Program at the University of
taught poetry at the Monroe County Jail, and he co-edited Poems from Arizona and serves as nonfiction editor for Entropy and court advocate
the Jail Dorm, a collection of poetry by incarcerated men published by for foster kids in Pima County. Her first poetry collection, We Remain
Monster House Press. His poetry has been recently published in COG, the Traditional, was released from the Center for Literary Publishing in
Superstition Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and many more. He has work February 2018.
forthcoming from Painted Bride Quarterly, Atticus Review, and Tilde. He is
a gift economist at poetryfortrash.com.
Favorite Writers:
Paul Celan, Alice Notley, Jesmyn Ward
Favorite Writers:
Sherwin Bitsui, Walt Whitman, Eleanor Wilner
MARCI VICTORIA
CALABRETTA CHANG
CANCIO-BELLO
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University Victoria Chang’s fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, was published
of Pittsburgh, 2016), which received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s) won the PEN
Poetry and the 2016 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal for Poetry. She has Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Her poems have
received poetry fellowships from Kundiman, the Knight Foundation, and been published in Best American Poetry, Poetry, American Poetry Review,
the American Literary Translators Association. Her work has appeared in the Nation, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and many other
Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, the New York Times, and more. places. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts
Foundation Fellowship in 2017. She serves on the National Book Critics
Circle Board and as Teaching Faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles.
Favorite Writers: You can find her at victoriachangpoet.com.
Ross Gay, Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes
Favorite Books:
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw, Brigit Pegeen
Kelly’s Song
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HANNAH
MARIO CHARD COHEN
Mario Chard is the author of Land of Fire, selected by Robert Pinsky for Hannah Cohen lives in Virginia. She is the author of the poetry chapbook
the 2016 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. Recent poems have appeared Bad Anatomy (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). She’s a contributing editor for
in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Winner of the Platypus Press and founding co-editor of Cotton Xenomorph. Recent and
“Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a former Wallace Stegner forthcoming publications include Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Yes Poetry,
Fellow at Stanford University, Maario currently teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, Gravel, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.
where he lives with his wife and sons.
Favorite Writers:
Favorite Writers: Louise Glück, Sylvia Plath, WB Yeats
Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Alice Oswald
S. BROOK
CHEN CHEN CORFMAN
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further S. Brook Corfman is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard
Possibilities, which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and a chapbook,
Writers Award, and was longlisted for a National Book Award. His work has Meteorites, forthcoming from DoubleCross Press, as well as a small-press
appeared in Poetry, Tin House, the New York Times Magazine, the Best poetry reviewer for Publishers Weekly and the recipient of fellowships from
American Poetry, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading. Recently, Lambda Literary and the University of Pittsburgh. Recent work appears
Poets & Writers Magazine featured him as one of “Ten Poets Who Will (or will appear soon) in DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Muzzle, Territory, and
Change the World.” He lives in Rochester, New York with his partner and Quarterly West (Best of the Net Nomination), among other places.
their pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles.
Favorite Writers:
Favorite Writers: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Renee Gladman, Paul Celan
Lucille Clifton, Bhanu Kapil, Solmaz Sharif
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KEVIN COVAL MEG DAY
Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. Through his roles as the Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling
artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the
Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), finalist for the
of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University.
thousands of young writers, artists, and musicians. Selected for Best New Poets 2013 and winner of the 2012 AWP Intro
Journals Award, Day received her Ph.D. in Poetry & Disability Poetics from
the University of Utah, where she was a Steffensen-Cannon Fellow and
Favorite Writers: a United States Point Foundation Scholar. Day is Assistant Professor of
Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O’Hara, Willie Perdomo English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College.
CAROLINE
CREW DANA DIEHL
Caroline Crew is the author of PINK MUSEUM (Big Lucks, 2015), as well Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align, 2nd edition coming
as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays appear in Conjunctions, from Splice UK. Her work has appeared in the Adroit Journal, North
DIAGRAM, and Gulf Coast, among others. She is pursuing a PhD at American Review, Necessary Fiction, Passages North, and elsewhere. She
Georgia State University, after earning an MA at the University of Oxford earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University, where she served as
and an MFA at UMass-Amherst. She’s online here: caroline-crew.com. editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. She currently teaches and lives in Tucson.
Favorite Writers: Favorite Writers:
Kathy Acker, Maggie Nelson, Safiya Sinclair Ramona Ausubel, George Saunders, Claire Vaye Watkins
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RYAN AIDAN
DZELZKALNS FORSTER
Ryan Dzelzkalns has work appearing with Assaracus, DIAGRAM, the Aidan Forster is a senior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for
Offing, Rattle, Tin House, and others. He completed an MFA at New York the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. His work has been
University and a BA at Macalester College, where he received the Wendy honored by the National YoungArts Foundation, the National Scholastic
Parrish Poetry Award. He works for the Academy of American Poets, and is Art & Writing Awards, and the Poetry Society of America, among others.
the tallest man in New York. Find him online at RyanDz.com. His work appears in or is forthcoming from the Adroit Journal, Best New
Poets 2017, BOAAT, Columbia Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades,
and Tin House, among others. His debut chapbook of poems, Exit
Favorite Writers: Pastoral, is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2018.
Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson, Catie Rosemurgy
Favorite Writers:
Bruce Snider, Carl Phillips, D. A. Powell
STEVIE DENICE
EDWARDS FROHMAN
Stevie Edwards is the founder and editor-in-chief of Muzzle Magazine Denice Frohman is a poet, performer, and educator from NYC. She is a
and senior editor in book development at YesYes Books. Her first book, CantoMundo Fellow, Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, and
Good Grief (Write Bloody, 2012), received the Independent Publisher Book Leeway Transformation Award recipient. Her work has appeared in or is
Awards Bronze in Poetry and the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from SIU forthcoming from the Acentos Review, Winter Tangerine, Nepantla: An
Carbondale. Her second book, Humanly, was released in 2015 by Small Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books), Women
Doggies Press, and her chapbook, Sadness Workshop, was published by of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (OR Books), and elsewhere.
Button Poetry in January 2018. She has an MFA in Poetry from Cornell Her poems have also garnered over 7.5 million views online, and she has
University, and is a PhD candidate in creative writing at University of North featured at over 200 colleges; hundreds of high schools, non-profits, and
Texas. Her writing is published in and forthcoming from Indiana Review, cultural arts spaces; and at the White House in 2016. She has a Master’s in
Crazyhorse, TriQuarterly, Redivider, 32 Poems, West Branch, the Journal, Education and currently tours the country.
Rattle, Verse Daily, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.
Favorite Writers:
Favorite Writers: Aracelis Girmay, Cherrie Moraga, Willie Perdomo
Terrance Hayes, Lynda Hull, Rachel McKibbens
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MELISSA BENJAMIN
GOODRICH GUCCIARDI
Melissa Goodrich is a writer and educator based in Tucson, Arizona. She Benjamin Gucciardi’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from
received her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and Berkeley Poetry Review, Forklift Ohio, Indiana Review, Orion Magazine,
her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. Her work has appeared upstreet, and other journals. He is a winner of the Milton Kessler Memorial
in American Short Fiction, Artful Dodge, the Kenyon Review Online, Prize from Harpur Palate, a Dorothy Rosenberg Prize and contests from
Passages North, PANK, Word Riot, Gigantic Sequins, and others. She is the Maine Review and the Santa Ana River Review. In addition to writing,
the author of the fiction collection Daughters of Monsters and the poetry he works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland, California through
chapbook IF YOU WHAT. Soccer Without Borders, an organization he founded in 2006.
Favorite Writers:
Jack GIlbert, Aracelis Girmay, Li-Young Lee
ANDREW JACQUELINE
GRETES HE
Andrew Gretes is the author of How to Dispose of Dead Elephants Jacqueline He is a writer from San Jose, California. Her work has been
(Sandstone Press, 2014), a novel which explores epilepsy through fables. recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, Bennington College,
His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Booth, Beloit Fiction Journal, Princeton University, Columbia College Chicago, John Hopkins University,
Fugue, Passages North, Witness, and other journals. Currently, he is a the Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, the Alliance for Young Artists &
fourth year doctoral student in the Center for Writers at the University of Writers, the Claremont Review, Gigantic Sequins, and Radar Poetry. She
Southern Mississippi. has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Favorite Writers: Favorite Writers:
Jorge Luis Borges, Kelly Link, Kurt Vonnegut Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Donna Tartt
20 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 21BEN
HOFFMAN CHRISTINA IM
Ben Hoffman’s stories have won the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Christina Im is a Korean-American writer and high school student from
Award and been been named among the Notable/Distinguished Stories Portland, Oregon. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in YARN, Words
of the Year in the Pushcart Prize, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Dance, Strange Horizons, the Blueshift Journal, and the Adroit Journal,
and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy anthologies. He has received among others. In addition, she has been recognized for her work by
fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and Stanford Bennington College, Hollins University, Princeton University, the Alliance
University, where he was a 2015-2017 Wallace Stegner Fellow. Originally for Young Artists & Writers, the National YoungArts Foundation, and the
from Pennsylvania, he lives in Chicago. U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Her poem “Meanwhile in America” was
selected by Natalie Diaz for inclusion in Best New Poets 2017.
Favorite Writers:
Aimee Bender, Steven Milhauser, Flannery O’Connor Favorite Writers:
Anne Carson, Ada Limón, Ocean Vuong
CARLIE
HOFFMAN KASEY JUEDS
Carlie Hoffman is a recipient of the 2016 92Y/Discovery Poetry Prize. Her Kasey Jueds’s first book of poems, Keeper, won the 2012 Agnes Lynch
poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her recent poems
Best of the Net, and appear in or are forthcoming from the New England have appeared in or are forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Beloit
Review, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Cortland Review, Narrative Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Salamander, Provincetown Arts, and
Magazine, Nashville Review, Nimrod International Journal, and elsewhere. Crazyhorse, and her reviews have been published in Salamander and
Jacket2. She lives in Philadelphia.
Favorite Writers:
Lucille Clifton, Louise Glück, Marie Howe, Ilya Kaminsky, Li-Young Lee Favorite Writers:
Jane Hirshfield, Joanna Klink, Jean Valentine
22 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 23PETER PETER
KISPERT LABERGE
Peter Kispert has worked in editorial at Penguin Random House and Peter LaBerge is author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes
Indiana Review, where he was editor-in-chief and where he founded the Books, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). His work appears in
annual Blue Light Books Prize with IU Press. He has also worked at Electric Best New Poets, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review Online, Iowa
Literature’s Recommended Reading and Folio Literary Management. His Review, Pleiades, Tin House, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from
work has appeared in OUT Magazine, Salon, the Carolina Quarterly, Tin the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry, and is a recent graduate
House Online, and elsewhere, and has been recommended by the New of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of
Yorker, the Paris Review, and Urban Outfitters. the Adroit Journal, and the founder and co-director of the Adroit Journal
Summer Mentorship Program.
Favorite Writers:
Jennifer Egan, Amy Hempel, Rebecca Makkai Favorite Writers:
Tarfia Faizullah, Li-Young Lee, Ocean Vuong
DAN KRAINES PAIGE LEWIS
Dan Kraines teaches at City Tech and the Fashion Institute of Technology Paige Lewis is the author of the chapbook Reasons to Wake You (Tupelo
in New York City. You can find his recent poems in the Adroit Journal, the Press, 2018). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry
Carolina Quarterly, Salmagundi, and in many other publications. He is a Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets 2017, and
PhD candidate in Poetry from the University of Rochester. Last year, he was elsewhere.
a resident at the Betsy Writer’s Room in Miami.
Favorite Writers:
Favorite Writers: Heather Christle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tim Seibles
Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Audre Lorde
24 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 25ANANDA RACHEL INEZ
LIMA MARSHALL
Ananda Lima’s work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Rattle, Rachel Inez Marshall‘s work has appeared in the Adroit Journal, the Los
the Offing, Sugar House Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She has an MA Angeles Review, Ploughshares, Rattle, Mississippi Review, Quarterly West,
in Linguistics from UCLA, and is pursuing her MFA in Fiction at Rutgers- Best New Poets, and the Normal School. She received her MFA in Poetry
Newark. Ananda is working on a full-length poetry collection centered on from Florida State University, and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
immigration and motherhood and a novel set in Brasília, where she grew
up as the daughter of migrants from Northeast Brazil.
Favorite Writers:
Federico García Lorca, Louise Glück, Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds
Favorite Writers:
Natalie Diaz, Ben Lerner, Clarice Lispector
ERINROSE RACHEL
MAGER MENNIES
Erinrose Mager’s fiction appears in or will appear in the Adroit Journal, Rachel Mennies is the author of The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards,
the Collagist, Passages North, Hyphen, DIAGRAM, New South, and others. winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a
Erinrose is a co-editor of the Official Catalog of the Library of Potential National Jewish Book Award, and the chapbook No Silence in the Fields.
Literature (Lit Pub Books), as well as a Creative Writing/Literature PhD Recent work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Black Warrior
candidate at the University of Denver. She received her MFA and Senior Review, Drunken Boat, Poet Lore, and elsewhere, and have been reprinted
Fiction Fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis. on Poetry Daily. Beginning with 2016’s selection, Mennies serves as the
series editor of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech
University Press, and is a member of AGNI’s editorial staff.
Favorite Writers:
Yasunari Kawabata, Clarice Lispector, Grace Paley
Favorite Writers:
Li-Young Lee, Maggie Nelson, Sharon Olds
26 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 27CARLY JOY MILLER JASON MYERS Carly Joy Miller is the author of Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018), chosen Jason Myers is poetry editor of the EcoTheo Review. A National Poetry by Carl Phillips for the 2017 Orison Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Like a Series finalist, his work has appeared in the Paris Review, West Branch, and Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he works in hospice. Prize. Her work has appeared in the Adroit Journal, Blackbird, the Boston Review, Gulf Coast, West Branch, and others. She is a contributing editor for Poetry International and a founding editor of Locked Horn Press, as Favorite Writers: well as a co-director of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Walt Whitman Favorite Writers: Katie Ford, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Gary Young MATT W. NATASHA MILLER OLADOKUN Matt W. Miller is author of the collections The Wounded for the Water, Natasha Oladokun is a Cave Canem fellow, a poet, and an essayist. Her Club Icarus (winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize) and Cameo work has appeared in the Adroit Journal, the American Poetry Review, Diner: Poems. He has published poems and essays in the Adroit Journal, Bearings Online, Harvard Review Online, Image, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Harvard Review, Narrative, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, and She is Assistant Poetry Editor at storySouth, and is currently a Visiting Crazyhorse, among others. He was winner of the River Styx Microbrew/ Assistant Professor of English at Hollins University, her MFA alma mater. Microfiction Prize and Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He Favorite Writers: teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy. Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Bill Watterson Favorite Writers: Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Derek Walcott 28 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 29
KWAME DOUG
OPUKU-DUKU RAMSPECK
Kwame Opoku-Duku is a poet, fiction writer, and filmmaker. His work has Doug Ramspeck is the author of six poetry collections and one collection
been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and is featured or forthcoming in of short stories. His most recent book, Black Flowers, is forthcoming by
the Massachusetts Review, Gigantic Sequins, Booth, Glass: A Journal of LSU Press. His story collection, The Owl That Carries Us Away (2018), is
Poetry, Perigee, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City, and, along with published by BkMk Press. Individual poems have appeared in journals that
Karisma Price, is a founding member of the Unbnd Collective. include the Kenyon Review, Slate, the Georgia Review, and the Southern
Review. He teaches creative writing at the Ohio State University at Lima.
Favorite Writers:
James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison Favorite Writers:
Louise Glück, Larry Levis, Brigit Pegeen Kelly
BRYNNE
BEN PURKERT REBELE-HENRY
Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, Brynne Rebele-Henry’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in
2018). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Boston Review, the American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Prairie Schooner,
the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Tin House Online, Best New Poets, and and elsewhere. She has received the Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Poetry
elsewhere. A former New York Times Fellow at New York University, Ben Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Adroit Prize for Prose,
teaches creative writing at Rutgers - New Brunswick. and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner. She is the author of
Fleshgraphs (Nightboat Books, 2016), and Autobiography of a Wound
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), recipient of the Donald Hall Prize.
Favorite Writers:
Renee Gladman, Maggie Nelson, Mary Ruefle
Favorite Writers:
Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Donna Tartt
30 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 31CLAIRE GLENN SCHWARTZ STOWELL Claire Schwartz is the author of bound (Button Poetry, 2018). Her poetry Glenn Stowell is twenty-seven years old, lives in Boston, and manages has appeared in Apogee, Bennington Review, the Massachusetts Review, financial investments by day. He translated and edited You Jump to and Prairie Schooner, and her essays, reviews, and interviews in Georgia Another Dream, a collection of poems by Beijing-based sound artist Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly and underground organizer Yan Jun. The collection was published by Review, and elsewhere. Vagabond Press. Favorite Writers: Favorite Writers: Aracelis Girmay, June Jordan, Wislawa Szymborska Thom Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, William Lychack ANALICIA SOTELO ESHANI SURYA Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Eshani Surya is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Arizona in Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay (Milkweed Editions, 2018). She is Tucson, where she also teaches undergraduates. Her writing has appeared also the author of Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto González in or is forthcoming from Ninth Letter Online, New Delta Review, Lunch for a 2016 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. Ticket, and Flyway: A Journal of Writing & Environment. She has received Her poems appear in or are forthcoming from the Kenyon Review, New the Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Flash Fiction from New Delta Review. Eshani England Review, the New Yorker, the Boston Review, and Best New Poets. also serves as the Flash Prose/Web Editor at Sonora Review. Find her on She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston. Twitter @__eshani, or at eshani-surya.com. Favorite Writers: Favorite Writers: Chen Chen, Vievee Francis, Jane Wong Kij Johnson, Carmen Maria Machado, Lidia Yuknavitch 32 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 33
JOHN ALLEN KEITH S.
TAYLOR WILSON
John Allen Taylor’s first chapbook, Unmonstrous, is forthcoming from Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem Fellow, and graduate
YesYes Books in 2019. His poems appear in RHINO, Nashville Review, of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He has received scholarships
Muzzle Magazine, and other places, and new poems wil appear from the from Bread Loaf three times, as well as scholarships from MacDowell,
Journal, the Common, and Pleiades. He serves as Ploughshares’s senior UCross, Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others.
poetry reader, coordinates the writing center at the University of Michigan Keith serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Four Way Review and Digital
– Dearborn, and brews very strong kombucha. Say hello @johna_taylor. Media Editor for Obsidian Journal. Keith’s first book, Fieldnotes on
Ordinary Love, will be published by Copper Canyon in 2019.
Favorite Writers:
Carl Phillips, Naomi Shihab Nye, James Wright Favorite Writers:
Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, Claudia Rankine
NOAH
WARREN JAY G. YING
Noah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass, winner of the Jay G. Ying currently studies in Edinburgh. His work has appeared in the
Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Adroit Journal, where he now serves as a prose reader. In the past, he has
Stanford University, Noah lives in San Francisco. received awards from the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom and the
National Galleries of Scotland, as well as selected for the Oxford Tower
Poetry School. He was chosen to be part of Umbrellas of Edinburgh:
Favorite Writers: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the Scotland’s Capital City in 2016. He has
Henry James, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf previously lived in Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Favorite Writers:
Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Gabriel García Marquez
34 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 35EMILY
JUNGMIN YOON
Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENTS
2017), recipient of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize, and A Cruelty
Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018). She has received awards and
fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, the Aspen
Institute, Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and elsewhere. In 2017,
she received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship
from the Poetry Foundation. She currently serves as the Poetry Editor
for the Margins, and is a PhD student studying Korean literature at the
University of Chicago.
It is incredibly difficult (read: impossible) to quantify any given
Favorite Writers: student’s writing skill in the greater context of other students.
Li-Young Lee, John Murillo, Sharon Olds
More than anything else, we view the existing competitive nature
of opportunities for emerging writers (such as this mentorship
program, for example) as a necessary evil. Just as is the case with
CHARITY
adult writers, we view writing as a collaborative, connection-based
activity, rather than a competitive one, and like to stress the former
throughout the duration of the mentorship.
YOUNG That said, we recognize the unique and meaningful doors that the
following awards programs (and many others!) unlock for students
who—through a combination of aesthetic luck and, yes, substantial
talent, promise, and potential—are fortunate to be recognized at
the highest level.
Charity Young is a rising junior at Princeton University concentrating in
English with double certificates in creative writing and visual arts. She is We are grateful for the existence of such opportunities for those
the recipient of the 2017 Adroit Prize for Prose, selected by Allegra Hyde. whom they are able to recognize, and encourage our students
to view rejection as more frequent than yet equally inevitable as
acceptance, as a force (albeit perhaps a frustrating one) that all
Favorite Writers: writers face in early careers, and that the worst case of submission
Joan Didion, Vladimir Nabokov, Donna Tartt is the same as no submission at all.
With this mindset, we are incredibly proud to cheer from the
sidelines for all of our mentorship students, whether they choose to
participate in and/or are eligible for such awards programs or not.
36 37Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
Each year, the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers partners with more than 100 visual The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is sponsored by the Poetry Society of the
arts and literary arts organizations across the country to bring the Awards to local United Kingdom, and recognizes poems written by any young poet aged 11-17. Each
communities. Each year, teens in grades 7 through 12 apply in 29 categories of art and year 100 winners (85 Commendations and 15 Overall Winners) are selected by a team
writing. Panelists look for works that best exemplify originality, technical skill, and the of high profile judges. The winners receive their awards at an annual prize-giving
emergence of a personal voice or vision. event on National Poetry Day, and are published in The Guardian as well as an inter-
nationally distributed anthology released by the Awards.
Last year, students submitted 340,000 works of art and writing to the Awards; 20,000
works of art and writing were recognized with Gold Keys [the top regional award] and — The Poetry Society Website
celebrated in local exhibitions and ceremonies. From this batch, the top 2,500 works
in the country earned National Medals and were later celebrated at a ceremony at The Adroit Journal has been fortunate enough to mentor nine
Carnegie Hall. Selections from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are published in students recognized as Overall Winners of the Foyle Young Poets
the National Catalog and the Best Teen Writing, which are distributed to schools and of the Year Award:
libraries nationwide.
Emily Burns (2012 — New York, USA)
— Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Website Flora de Falbe (2012 — London, UK)
Caroline Harris (2013 — California, USA)
Since its inception in 2013, the mentorship program has educated Emma Lister (2013 — Devon, UK)
students who have received more than two hundred National Rebecca Alifimoff (2014 — Indiana, USA)
Scholastic Gold and Silver Medals for Poetry, Flash Fiction, Audrey Spensley (2014 — Ohio, USA)
Short Story, Personal Essay/Memoir, Dramatic Script, and Ben Read (2015 — Washington, USA)
Senior Writing Portfolio, among others, as well as a host of Letitia Chan (2016 — Hong Kong)
American Voices Medals, bestowed to work selected as the best Margot Armbruster (2017 — Wisconsin, USA)
of its geographical region. Enshia Li (2017 — Canada)
Click here to see a full list of National Scholastic Awards received The journal has also worked with students who have received more
by Adroit students. than 40 Commendations from the Awards since 2012.
Click here to watch an interview with mentorship student Rebecca
Alifimoff on BBC.
Click here to see a full list of Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards
received by Adroit students.
ADROIT STUDENTS CELEBRATING THE 2016 NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC AWARDS
38 39YoungArts Awards & U.S. Presidential Scholar
The National YoungArts Foundation identifies and nurtures the most accomplished
young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts and assists them at
critical junctures in their educational and professional development. Each year, students
between the ages of 15 and 18 are recognized as Finalists, Honorable Mentions, or
Merit Award Recipients.
YoungArts serves as the exclusive nominating agency for the U.S. Presidential Scholars
in the Arts, the country’s highest honor for young artists. Presidential Scholars in the
Arts receive a Presidential Medal at the White House and perform at the Kennedy
Center and exhibit at the Smithsonian.
YoungArts alumni who have become leading professionals in their fields include Vanes-
sa Williams, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Nicki Minaj, Desmond Richardson, and Ricky
Ubeda, as well as acclaimed writers Sam Lipsyte, Allegra Goodman, and Naomi Wolf,
among others.
YoungArts creates a community of alumni that provides a lifetime of encouragement,
opportunity and support.
— YoungArts Website
The Adroit Journal has supported 67 high school writers who
have been recognized with a total of 100 YoungArts Awards
for Poetry, Short Story, Creative Nonfiction, Dramatic Script, Novel,
and Spoken Word, as well as Music — Piano and Cinematic Arts.
Many of these students have been subsequently recognized as U.S.
Presidential Scholars in the Arts.
Furthermore, our seniors received a total of seven nominations
for 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the following categories:
Aidan Forster (Greenville, SC) — Writing: Poetry
Jacqueline He (San Jose, CA) — Academics
Jacqueline He (San Jose, CA) — Writing: Short Story
Christina Im (Portland, OR) — Academics
Christina Im (Portland, OR) — Writing: Poetry
Alisha Yi (Las Vegas, NV) — Academics
Alisha Yi (Las Vegas, NV) — Writing: Poetry
Click here to see a full list of YoungArts Awards & U.S. Presidential
Scholar designations received by Adroit students.
40Graduation Matriculation Mentorship Student Testimonials
Each year, The Adroit Journal hosts passionate, creatively driven, “Having seen the mentorship program from both sides, as both mentee
and talented high school students from around the world. Here is and mentor, I can honestly say it’s a profoundly beautiful and affirming
the compelte list of institutions where graduates have landed: experience for all parties. Not only did the program improve the quality of
my writing, but it also introduced me to an incredible community of writers
that has been a critical support network as I and my writing have grown.”
Barnard College Stanford University (4)
Oriana Tang, Mentee, ‘14 and Mentor, ‘16
Brown University (3) Swarthmore College United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts (Poetry & Short Story)
Davidson Fellow in Literature
Colgate University The College of New Jersey National YoungArts Finalist in Writing (Poetry & Short Story)
Columbia University (5) The New School
Cornell University (2) University of Alabama (Honors Program) “The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship was one of the most amazing
things I’ve ever experienced. There, I found a community of young writers
Deep Springs College University of Cambridge (UK) (2) who were interested in engaging with poetry in an exciting way and in
growing as people and writers. The mentorship helped me find/develop
Emory University (3) University of Chicago my poetic voice, explore my poetry and stretch the limits of what poetry
could be for me, and make lasting friendships with like-minded artists.
Harvard University (8) University of California - Berkeley I recommend the mentorship to anyone who wants to strengthen their
understanding of their work and build long-lasting, wonderful friendships
Indiana University University of California - Los Angeles with other young writers.”
Ithaca College University of Massachusetts - Amherst Aidan Forster, Mentee, ‘15 and Mentor, ‘18
Author of Exit Pastoral (Poetry - YesYes Books, 2018)
Kenyon College University of North Carolina - Thomas Wolfe Scholar National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold & Best in Grade Medalist
National YoungArts Finalist in Writing (Creative Nonfiction)
New York University (3) University of Oxford (UK) Publication in Best New Poets, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Tin House, and elsewhere
New York University - Abu Dhabi University of Pennsylvania (15)
Pomona College University of Southern California “The Adroit Journal’s mentorship program helped me find a steady poetic
voice and learn how to intensively edit poems. I made lasting friendships
Princeton University (8) University of Texas - Austin (Honors Program) with other mentees and mentors ... The Adroit Journal, never mind its
network of emerging and established writers, never ceases to astound me.”
Reed College University of Washington
Brynne Rebele-Henry, Mentee, ‘15 and Mentor, ‘18
Rice University University of Wisconsin - Madison Author, Fleshgraphs (Nightboat Books, 2016)
Author, Autography of a Wound (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Sarah Lawrence College Virginia Commonwealth University Recipient, AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Recipient, Adroit Prize for Prose
Smith College Yale University (8) Publication in APR, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere
42 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 43Jimin Kang (’16) Rebecca Oet (‘17)
Mentorship Alumni Alexandra Karaim (’16) Erin O’Malley (‘17)
Masfi Khan (‘17) Noel Peng (’16)
The Adroit Journal is proud to present the following list of high Audrey Kim (‘17) Taylor Petty (‘15)
school mentorship program alumni. Students enter the program Elizabeth Kim (’16) Amanda Prager (‘13)
with varying levels of workshop and writing experience, and come Heather Yenna Kim (‘17) Anika Prakash (’16)
from schools of all sorts. In this list, over half of the United States Katy Kim (‘17) Christina Qiu (‘13)
is represented, as well as Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Madeline Kim (‘14) Ben Read (‘15)
India, Iraq, Latvia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Tomas Kontakevich (’16) Brynne Rebele-Henry (‘15)
Africa, Taiwan, and the UK. Year of participation is noted. Anthony Lagana (’16) Joey Reisberg (’16)
Alicia Lai (‘13) Andrew Rickert (‘17)
POETRY Ezra Lebovitz (‘17) Josh Schlachter (’16)
Shereen Lee (‘17) Emily Schultz (‘17)
Rebecca Alifimoff (‘14) Helli Fang (’16) Julia Lee-Papastavros (‘17) Abigail Schott-Rosenfield (‘13)
Julia Allen (‘13) Taylor Fang (‘17) Michal Leibowitz (‘15) Nicole Seah (’16)
Sophie Allen (’16) Griffin Blue Fay (‘15) Morgan Levine (‘17) Elena Sénéchal-Becker (‘15)
Fareena Arefeen (‘17) Joseph Felkers (’16) Rachel Litchman (’16) Vidhima Shetty (‘17)
Margot Armbruster (’16) Sarah Feng (‘17) Erica Lin (‘14) Tarik Shwaish (‘17)
Nikita Bastin (’16) Lauren Finkle (‘13) Serena Lin (‘17) Amanda Silberling (‘13)
Tess Becket (‘17) Aidan Forster (‘15) Emma Lister (‘14) Jasmine Simms (‘14)
Yasmin Belkhyr (‘13) Kindall Gant (’16) Katherine Liu (’16) Scott Stevens (’16)
Matilda Berke (‘17) Michel Ge (’16) Patricia Liu (’16) Rachel Sucher (‘17)
Stella Binion (‘17) Samuel Gee (’16) Vivian Lu (‘17) Eliana Swerdlow (’16)
Margaret Blackburn (‘17) Reuben Gelley Newman (’16) Emily Mack (‘14) Talin Tahajian (‘13)
Nathan Blansett (‘15) Farah Ghafoor (’16) Rhiannon McGavin (’16) Oriana Tang (‘14)
Gabriel Braunstein (‘15) Andrea Giugni (‘15) Molly McGinnis (‘13) Emily Tian (‘17)
Annabel Brazaitis (’16) Ava Goga (‘15) Abigail Minard (‘15) Stephanie Tom (‘17)
Emily Burns (‘13) Lily Goldberg (‘17) Alyssa Mulé (‘14) Caroline Tsai (‘15)
Emma Camp (’16) Eden Gordon (‘14) Meghana Mysore (‘15) Selin Turkyilmaz (’16)
Annie Castillo (’16) Erica Guo (‘14) Jacob Oet (‘13)
Adelina Ceretto (‘14) Alex Greenberg (‘15)
Yiwei Chai (‘17) Justin Han (‘17)
Letitia Chan (’16) Yuri Han (‘17)
Carissa Chen (‘15) Vincent Hao (‘17)
Michelle Chen (’16) Kathryn Hargett (‘15)
Emma Choi (’16) Caroline Harris (‘14)
Jisoo Choi (’16) Rachana Hegde (’16)
Steven Chung (‘17) Miles Hewitt (‘13)
Lyrik Courtney (‘17) Mai Hoang (‘17)
Annabelle Crowe (’16) Cassandra Hsiao (’16)
Flora de Falbe (‘13) Eileen Huang (’16)
Uma Dwivedi (‘17) Christina Im (‘15)
Maya Eashwaran (‘15) Kara Jackson (‘17)
Lindsay Emi (‘14) Heather Jensen (‘17)
Sophie Evans (‘15) Isabella Jiang (‘17)
Annie Fan (‘17) Nadia Jo (‘17)
CAROL SHILLIBEER, “BIRD ON INDUSTRIAL” (ISSUE EIGHT)
44 THE 2018 ADROIT SUMMER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM | 45Mentorship Alumni (Cont.) About the Journal
FICTION The Adroit Journal was founded in November 2010 by poet and
editor Peter LaBerge. At its foundation, The Adroit Journal is a
Olivia Alger (’16) Enshia Li (‘17)
quarterly publication that has its eyes focused ahead, seeking
Isabella Alvarez (‘17) Isabella Li (‘17)
to showcase what its global staff of emerging writers sees as the
Ethan Aronson (‘14) Jessica Li (‘14)
future of poetry, prose, and art.
Anjali Berdia (’16) Helene Lovett (‘14)
Caroline Bernstein (’16) Kaley Mamo (’16)
Recognized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prizes: Best of
Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee (‘17) Alyssa Mazzoli (’16)
the Small Presses, Poetry Daily, Best of the Net, Best New
Bronwen Brenner (‘17) Brianna McNish (‘15)
Poets, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Verse Daily, Teen
Anna Butcher (‘17) Christina Qiu (‘14)
Vogue, and NPR, among others, The Adroit Journal has featured
Walker Caplan (‘15) Jae Haeng Rhee (’16)
the voices of Terrance Hayes, Franny Choi, D. A. Powell, NoViolet
Katie Chen (‘17) Tessa Rudolph (‘17)
Bulawayo, Alex Dimitrov, Lydia Millet, Ocean Vuong, Ned Vizzini,
Catherine Cheng (‘15) Lucy Silbaugh (‘14)
Fatimah Asghar, Danez Smith, and beyond.
Grace Coberly (‘17) Ashira Shirali (‘17)
Maeve Flaherty (‘15) Polina Solovyeva (’16)
Between 2013 and 2017, The Adroit Journal was based at the Kelly
Talia Flores (‘15) Griffin Somaratne (‘17)
Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently
Robert Esposito (‘14) Shannon Sommers (‘15)
based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Charlotte Goddu (‘14) Jane Song (‘15)
Julia Gourary (’16) Audrey Spensley (‘14)
Jaclyn Grimm (’16) Lily Spiro (‘14)
Alexandra Gulden (’16) Kwan Ann Tan (’16)
Jordan Harper (’16) Sarah Tran (‘14)
Jacqueline He (‘17) Smriti Verma (‘15)
Angelo Hernandez-Sias (’16) Jordan Villegas (’16)
Caldwell Gregg Holden (‘17) Alisa Wadsworth (’16)
Lilly Hunt (‘17) Valerie Wu (‘17)
Lilly Keefe-Powers (’16) Charity Young (’16)
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee (‘17) AnQi Yu (‘17)
Anna Kramer (‘15) Emily Zhao (‘15)
Eunice Lee (‘17) Nicole Zhen (‘17)
Elizabeth Lemieux (’16)
NONFICTION
Daniel Blokh (‘16)
Margaret Lu (‘17)
Sahara Sidi (‘17)
Rona Wang (‘16)
DRAMATIC SCRIPT JOURNALISM
Anastasia Hutnick (‘15) Jordan Cutler-Tietjen (‘15)
Safwan Khatib (‘15) Jane Levy (‘15)
Eli Winter (‘15)
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