Bury Your Gods
Jada Leung is a high school senior who loves poetry, theater, and bagels with cream cheese. She is a slam poet in the Los Angeles-based Get Lit Players, a youth poetry troupe that performs for schools and events across the state. Her poetry has also been published in numerous online literary magazines.
Lord Licorice
Tricia Lim Castro (she & they) is a storyteller and dancer. She is currently pursuing a Narrative Studies BA at the University of Southern California. They are also a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow whose work has been featured in Nobody Knows: Voices Unmuted at the Grammy Museum. Tricia is grateful for the support of their friends and family near and far – her stories are for them and all the other balikbayans out there, finding their way back home.
Forest Walker
Paige Cook grew up in Chicago, IL, before moving to Los Angeles to study English Creative Writing and Psychology at USC. When not reading or writing, she spends her free time exploring the food scene of LA and watching horror movies.