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Swallowtail

Zoe Hiemstra (she/her) is a graduating senior with a passion for nature, grief and love in her writing. She intends to pursue her MFA in creative nonfiction at UNCW starting in Fall 2025.

Driving through West Virginia, Listening to the Radio

Virginia Van de Riet is a junior from Indian Trail, North Carolina. Her favorite animals, in order, are octopuses, bears, and snakes.

Home on the Range

Tabitha Woolcott is a British student studying abroad at UNC for the year. She loves moto boots, Donald Fagen and Sex and the City.

Utterance

Kafira Adam is a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill from Asheville, NC. She is an English and Comparative Literature major with a concentration in poetry.

If I Were A Horse

Emma Monroe is a senior majoring in English and comparative literature. She is from Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and is a member of the UNC Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity.

Anthony Guerra Flores is a first-year student at Carolina and an aspiring poet. Much of his current work deals with directly evoking memory and fragmented memory, the relationship between phenological experiences and cultural memory allows him to create a tapestry of poetry that showcases his life.

Monster House

Ashley Denchfield (she/they) is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is pursuing a degree in English, studying creative non-fiction. Her writing explores an unconventional and painful childhood, and trying to find magic and connection through it.

Nazhat

Sadie Sawyer (she/her) is a sophomore at UNC studying computer science and information science with a creative writing minor. When she’s not hacking, she likes to write songs, play guitar and piano, and spend time outdoors.

Fowl

Karina Lazorchak reads and writes from her home in Arlington, Virginia and as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studies English Literature. When she’s not writing, she enjoys playing the bass guitar and listening to music, her other true love.

Niobe, Pity to Your Children

Dani Elliott is a creative writing English major with a studio art minor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her free time, she enjoys writing, embroidery, playing her flute, and baking.