Faith Merino

Faith Merino

Faith Marino is the author of the novel Cormorant Lake which was long listed for the Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Award. She holds an MFA from UC Davis, and her short stories have appeared in the Indiana Review, Harper Pallette, the Carolina Quarterly, and more, in addition to inclusion among the Best American Short Stories Distinguished Stories. She is currently at work on a second novel, as well as a short story collection, and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford.

Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis is a coterminal master’s student at Stanford University in the English Department, having pursued a BA in English and Music. She was a recipient of a Stanford Major Grant for playwriting and a winner of Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Fresh Voices Competition. Her dramatic work has been performed at the All Together Now Festival in Waterford, Ireland, as well at Hartford Stage's Write On Festival in Connecticut, and at Stanford. She was the Editor in Chief of Mahberet Magazine at Brown University, an intern at the National Theatre School of Ireland (The Gaiety School of Acting), and one of the first two women to be accepted into Fleet Street, a 40-year-old musical comedy group at Stanford. In musical theater and opera, she has portrayed everything from a murderous pâtissière (Mrs. Lovett), a flying nanny (Mary Poppins) and a petulant Russian prince (Orlofsky).

Phoebe Oathout (UNBLEEPED)

Phoebe Oathout lives in Baltimore with her girlfriend and is a student at the Hopkins Writing Sems in Fiction. Before that, she worked as a financial aid assistant at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She holds a BA in English and an MA in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She's at work on a novel and collection of short stories.

Joseph Rios - UNBLEEPED

Joseph Rios was named Fresno's Poet Laureate in 2023. He is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn), winner of the American Book Award and was named one of the Notable Debut Poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. His poems can be found at Poem A Day, Huizache, The Rumpus, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on Metro buses and trains in Los Angeles. He lives in Fresno.

Jared Klegar

Jared Klegar is a current senior at Stanford University. His writing has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where he is an editorial assistant.