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Editors-in-Chief
Co-founder & EIC, Eucalyptus Lit
Iris Cai
Iris Cai (she/her) is a freshman at Stanford University. Her writing has been recognized by YoungArts, the Adroit Prizes, Poetry Society of America, and the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and appears in COUNTERCLOCK, Rattle, Gone Lawn, 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.
Co-founder & EIC, Eucalyptus Lit
Felix Chen
Felix Chen (he/him) is a freshman at Harvard College. He served as editor of the National Junior Classical League's Torch: U.S., and is a editor of Tempus, Harvard's history journal, and Sententiae, Harvard's medieval studies 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.
Co-founder & EIC, Eucalyptus Lit
Jessica Wang
Jessica Wang (she/they) is a freshman at Northwestern University. She is a California Arts Scholar and has been recognized by the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. In her free time, she can be found working on a draft of her first novel while attempting to cajole her cat into loving her back.
Executive Staff
Executive Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Lara Chamoun
Lara Chamoun is a high school student from Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of the chapbook Bleeding Ghosts (Cathexis Northwest Press) and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, LIT Magazine, PRISM International, Queen's Quarterly and elsewhere. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and was a 2024 Adroit Summer Mentee in Fiction.
Executive Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Kyla Guimaraes
Kyla Guimaraes (she/her) is a freshman at Yale University. Her work has appeared in HAD, The Shore, Dishsoap Quarterly, SUNHOUSE Literary, and elsewhere. Kyla is an alum of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and a poetry reader at Okay Donkey. In addition to writing, Kyla likes bad puns and the rain.
Managing Editor, Evergreens
Rishi Janakiraman
Rishi Janakiraman is a poet and essayist who writes from Raleigh, NC. He has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Urban Word, Young Poets Network, Bow Seat, and Best of SNO. A Top 15 Foyle Young Poet of the Year, his work has been published in The New York Times, The Poetry Society, Rust + Moth, and Dishsoap Quarterly, among others. He serves as the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Polyphony Lit and as the NC Youth Poet Laureate.
Senior Editors
Managing Editor, Prose
Nina Stadermann
Nina Stadermann (she/her) is a Bay Area-based senior. She is a strong believer in experimental, abstract writing; she strives to take the silly seriously and the profound at face value. As a CSSSA and IYWS alum, Nina's talents include opening oranges in a single peel and thinking too hard. Her work is published or forthcoming in Ember, ETERNAL, Fleeting Daze, The Malu Zine, and elsewhere.
Senior Poetry Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Sophia Lee
Sophia Lee (she/her) is a senior from Dallas, Texas. A Pushcart Prize Nominee and national Scholastic Art & Writing medalist, her work is featured or forthcoming in Sunhouse Literary, Eunoia Review, The Expressionist, and more. Her poetry collection, Between Entrance Veins, is published by Bookleaf Publishing. She is also a IWYS, SoNYT, and Sunhouse Mentorship alum and edits for The Pollux Journal. In her free time, she likes dabbling in sketch art, spiraling over East Asian history, and plowing through Donna Tartt Novels.
Senior Poetry Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Julia Liu
Julia Liu is a writer based in New England. A Scholastic American Voices Awardee and Connecticut Youth Poet Laureate finalist, she has received recognition from the National YoungArts Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Interlochen Center for the Arts, among others. When not creating, she loves whisking matcha, analyzing films, and going on long walks.
Senior Poetry Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Ela Kini
Ela Kini (she/her) is a student based in New York. She has been recognized by YoungArts, the Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, as well as others. Her work appears in Palette Poetry, The Margins, Rust & Moth, and elsewhere. She loves good lattes.
Senior Poetry Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Madeleine Moon-Chun
Madeleine Moon-Chun is a high school student from Georgia. She is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incandescent Review and an alum of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. She likes birds, running, and summer.
Editors & Media Staff
Visual Arts Editor
Claire Jiang
Claire Jiang (she/her) is a junior from Atlanta, Georgia. She enjoys various forms of art, from painting and pottery to photography and mixed media. Her art has been featured in the High Museum Atlanta, recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and displayed at the Chinese American Museum in DC. She currently serves as the co-Editor for her school’s literary magazine, Knight Gallery, and the editor of A Taste of the Past, a bi-annual historical publication. She is a nap enthusiast, an avid philosophy reader, and a supporter of cereal without milk.
Guest Anthology Designer
Yueyao Li
Yueyao Li (she/her) is a freshman at UC Berkeley. Her artworks have been recognized and displayed by collectors from China, Canada, and US.
Prose Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Filiz Fish
Filiz Fish (she/her) is a high school senior from Los Angeles, California. Her work has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the National Poetry Quarterly, and the National Council of Teachers of English. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Adroit Journal, and more. In her free time, she enjoys reading, listening to Blood Orange, and searching for the best matcha in her area.
Prose Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Kaitlyn Bai
Kaitlyn Bai (she/her) is a sophomore from Seattle, WA. A Seattle Youth Poetry fellow, her work has been recognized by the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the John Locke Institute, among others. Outside of writing, she enjoys digital art, debate, and sunsets.
Staff Writer, Evergreens
Claire Yang
Claire Yang (she/her) is a junior from Westfield, New Jersey. She edits for Polyphony Lit and has been recognized nationally by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and the John Locke Institute. She is, as always, grateful to have her words take up space.
Poetry Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Rohan Mahapatra
Rohan Mahapatra (he/him) is a high school freshman based in the Bay Area, California. He is drawn to a myriad of forms of the written word, including academic writing, journalistic prose, and all things poetic. His work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and he is an alumnus of the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. Outside of writing, Rohan enjoys coding and travel.
Graphic Designer, Eucalyptus Lit
Joyce Zhang
Joyce Zhang (she/her) is a high school junior from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artwork has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and her favorite forms of visual art are photography, painting, and graphite. Outside of art, she loves movie marathons, classic rock music, and sleeping.
Staff Writer, Eucalyptus Lit
Talan Tee
Talan Tee (he/him) is a Taipei-based poet who writes to remember in an increasingly forgetful world. A purveyor of morning meditations, he reflects against the grain of noise and hurry. When not reading or writing, you can find him solving math problems, pursuing excellent matcha, or working out at the gym.
Staff Emerita
Managing Editor, Eucalyptus Lit
Akshita Krishnan
Social Media Manager, Eucalyptus Lit
Alison Yang
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