Brynne Rebele-Henry's poetry, fiction, and visual art have appeared in such journals as The Volta, Revolver, Souvenir, Pine Hills Review, Open House, Powder Keg, So to Speak, Ping Pong, The Offending Adam and other magazines, and her work is forthcoming in Adroit, Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, Dusie, Poetry Crush, and Prairie Schooner among other publications. Her book Fleshgraphs is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She was born in 1999 and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Aidan Forster is a sophomore in the creative writing program at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the managing editor, assistant poetry editor, and co-design editor of Crashtest, the Fine Art Center’s online magazine for high school writers, and the blog editor of The Adroit Journal. He participated in The Adroit Journal’s 2015 online summer mentorship program, and went on to create Young Queer Writers, an online community for LGBTQ+ writers in high school and college, with a fellow mentee. He is a 2015 recipient of the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship and the 2015 winner of the Say What Open Mic: Fresh Out the Oven Slam. He is the 2016 winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Louise Louis / Emily F. Bourne Student Award and made the editors’ list for the 2016 Adroit Prizes in Poetry. His work appears in or is forthcoming from The Adroit Journal, Alexandria Quarterly, Assaracus, The Best Teen Writing of 2015, DIALOGIST, Hermeneutic Chaos, HIV Here and Now, Menacing Hedge, Polyphony H.S., Souvenir Lit Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Verse.
Alyssa Mazzoli's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from GAMS, Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, Four Chambers, and The Kenyon Review. She has held editorial positions at Crashtest magazine, and now Fissure magazine.
Carissa Chen's artwork was selected for exhibition at the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Carnegie Hall, Times Square Billboards, and the Warhol Museum. She was awarded first place in the Artist Magazine's International Competition in the student portraiture and received a national finalist award from the YoungArts foundation for her photojournalism. Carissa's poetry is featured or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, and JuxtaProse among others and she is honored to have been recognized by the National YoungArts foundation, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Lewis Sibley Poetry Prize, and the Bennington College Awards. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of her school's literary arts journal, Pendulum, and co-founder of her school's arts festival We All Bleed Red. This summer, Carissa will be in New York as an intern at the Academy of American Poets and will spend the majority of her free time in the art studio or at Genspace, an open biology lab.
Aidan Forster is a sophomore in the creative writing program at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the managing editor, assistant poetry editor, and co-design editor of Crashtest, the Fine Art Center’s online magazine for high school writers, and the blog editor of The Adroit Journal. He participated in The Adroit Journal’s 2015 online summer mentorship program, and went on to create Young Queer Writers, an online community for LGBTQ+ writers in high school and college, with a fellow mentee. He is a 2015 recipient of the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship and the 2015 winner of the Say What Open Mic: Fresh Out the Oven Slam. He is the 2016 winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Louise Louis / Emily F. Bourne Student Award and made the editors’ list for the 2016 Adroit Prizes in Poetry. His work appears in or is forthcoming from The Adroit Journal, Alexandria Quarterly, Assaracus, The Best Teen Writing of 2015, DIALOGIST, Hermeneutic Chaos, HIV Here and Now, Menacing Hedge, Polyphony H.S., Souvenir Lit Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Verse.
Alyssa Mazzoli's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from GAMS, Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, Four Chambers, and The Kenyon Review. She has held editorial positions at Crashtest magazine, and now Fissure magazine.
Carissa Chen's artwork was selected for exhibition at the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Carnegie Hall, Times Square Billboards, and the Warhol Museum. She was awarded first place in the Artist Magazine's International Competition in the student portraiture and received a national finalist award from the YoungArts foundation for her photojournalism. Carissa's poetry is featured or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, and JuxtaProse among others and she is honored to have been recognized by the National YoungArts foundation, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Lewis Sibley Poetry Prize, and the Bennington College Awards. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of her school's literary arts journal, Pendulum, and co-founder of her school's arts festival We All Bleed Red. This summer, Carissa will be in New York as an intern at the Academy of American Poets and will spend the majority of her free time in the art studio or at Genspace, an open biology lab.