Volume 2 Team

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    Lena Kraus

    Founder, Editor-in-Chief

    Favourite Book: The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

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    Zala Jambrovic Hatic

    Executive Editor

    Favourite Worlds: Post-Shift Atlanta, Westeros, Middle-earth, the Starless Sea

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    Amos O'Connor

    Art Director

    Favourite Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy

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    Lauren N. Thurman

    Copy Editor

    Favourite Authors: Lauren Groff, N. K. Jemisin, Virginia Woolf

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  • Juliann Guerra

    Website Manager

    Favourite Books: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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  • Wren True

    Workshop Coordinator

    “All you have to do is to write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.“
    - Ernest Hemingway

  • Julia Guillermina

    Financial Coordinator

    Favourite Genres: Historical Novels, Romance Novels, Poetry

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  • Beverley Thornton

    Social Media Manager

    Favourite Books: Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

  • Nora Martinez

    Social Media Manager

    Favourite Books: Howards End by EM Forster, Emma by Jane Austen

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  • Michael Howrie

    Community Liaison, Events Officer, Editor

    “Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.”- Diana Wynne Jones

  • Anna Jones

    Outreach Officer, Editor

    Favourite Book: Stoner by John Williams

  • Alice Rogers

    Editor

    Favourite Authors: Joan Didion and Chuck Palahniuk

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  • Alyssa Osiecki

    Editor

    "Have no fear of perfection- you'll never reach it."
    - Salvador Dali

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  • Hanna-Maria Vester

    Editor

    "Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost." - Andrea Gibson

  • Hayley Bernier

    Editor

    "Though experience may resist or elude language, it is the task of the poet to circle what can't be said until something of its smell, sound, taste, and gesture appears on the page." - Lorna Crozier

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  • Katie Hay-Molopo

    Editor

    Favourite Books: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis, Calvin & Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson

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  • Miriam Huxley

    Editor

    Favourite Books: HotInstagramel World by Ali Smith, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

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  • Nicole Christine Caratas

    Editor

    Favourite Books: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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  • Tess Simpson

    Editor

    Favourite Books: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

  • Tom Carroll

    Editor

  • Anthi Cheimariou

    Editor, Proofreader

    Favourite Book: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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  • Elena Sims

    Editor, Proofreader

    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.” - The Little Prince