Our Mentors

Iris Cai (she/her) is a freshman at Stanford University. Her poetry has been recognized by YoungArts, the Adroit Prizes, Poetry Society of America, and the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and appears in COUNTERCLOCK, Rattle, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop, and Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. When not writing, Iris plays piano and takes too many pictures of her cat.

Felix Chen (he/him) is a freshman at Harvard College. He serves as editor of the National Junior Classical League's Torch, and has experience as an editor of his school’s newspaper, the Winged Post. Dedicated to spreading the joy of reading and writing within his community, he also heads his school's library-affiliated organization and history journal. His work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. An alumnus of the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute, he is also three-time state champion of the National History Day competition. His work appears in The Concord Review.