Affiliates
Dorothy Chan (she/they)
Founding Editor, Former Editor in Chief, Former Food and Beverage Editor
Things I love: a triple sonnet and a cocktail; poems about food and sex, drag shows, runway, mid-2000s fashion, dream dates, being a queer in a family of straights, Hong Kong, visual art, and snakes slithering away. I love a good afternoon fantasy with a side of sashimi.
Favorite writers: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ching-In Chen, Jenny Zhang, Evie Shockley, Nikki Finney, Lee Ann Roripaugh, John Murillo, Allison Joseph, Mona Eltahawy, Douglas Kearney, Kim Hyesoon, Sayaka Murata, Monica McClure, Xan Phillips, Keith S. Wilson, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Richard Siken
Photo Credit: Joshua David Watson
Christina Arbogast (she/her)
web formatting, former Animals editor
Things I love: fostering senior dogs, bioluminescence, orchids, desert roses, bromeliads, tarot, taro, banana hearts, pollinators, mythical creatures, osprey nests, BTS, ube, salt water, minimalist floral illustrations, manatees, and surprise.
Favorite writers: Gloria Anzaldúa, Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, Carmen Maria Machado, Barbara Jane Reyes, Robin Coste Lewis.
MicKenzie “Micki” Fasteland (she/her)
coding / web formatting
Things I Love: Ripping into ableist nonsense, queer videogame ships, rescuing poodles, cocktails with Dorothy, magic wands (real and otherwise).
Favorite Writers: Mariko Tamaki, N.K. Jemisin, Alison Bechdel, Tamora Pierce, Octavia Butler, Madeleine L’Engle, Seishi Yokomizo, Lynda Barry, Audre Lorde
Lauren Chen (she/her)
design
Things I Love: Sriracha sauce, anything Sci-Fi, teaching Pilates and making crafts! I love bringing ideas to life through design.
Interns
Abby Rickert is thrilled to be joining the Honey Literary team under the supervision of Dr. Rita Mookerjee! Abby is a senior at Worcester State University where she studies Urban Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. In addition to this, she is working towards her Masters Degree in Public Administration and Policy. In her free time, Abby plays bass guitar in an all-femme, indie-punk band called Evil Felipe.
Abby Rickert (she/her)
Former Editors and Affiliates
Zakiya Cowan (she/her)
Former Interviews Editor
Things I love: writing about the body, Black womanhood, trees, reconciling with loss, taking up space, confession, erasure, preserving family history, matriarchs, and food. I love questioning, learning, and reclamation.
Favorite writers: Safia Elhillo, Aja Monet, Eve Ewing, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tiana Clark, Aracelis Girmay, Nicole Sealey, Lucille Clifton, Su Hwang, Jaqueline Woodson, Camonghne Felix.
Claire Meuschke (she/her)
Former Hybrid Editor
Things I love: reviving the archive, ethnobotany, daily life as it intersects with time travel, dreams.
Favorite writers: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Anne Boyer, Gregory Cajete, CAConrad, Xue Di, Saidiya Hartman, Bhanu Kapil, Layli Long Soldier, Fred Moten, Alice Notley, Arthur Sze
Avni Vyas (she/her)
Former Essays Editor
Things I love: alligators, rage-crochet, social justice doilies, Ramayana, bourbon, distance running, syntax, Floridiana, banyan trees, one-liners, rejoinders, tiny mischief.
Favorite writers: Ai, Anne Carson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Arundhati Roy, Cheryl Strayed, Douglas Coupland, Audre Lorde, Rachel Carson, Leslie Jamison
Maria Clara Melo (she/her)
Former Valentines Editor
Things I love: writing about living in the hyphen between Brazilian and American, the ritual of trauma, and secrets. Enjoys dystopian fantasies that could come true, making doodles, and not translating when she writes in Portuguese. Loves investigating the intricacies of cross sections in identities, and the smell of onions and garlic cooking together.
Favorite writers: Edwidge Danticat, Carmen Maria Machado, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Gloria Anzaldua, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Haruki Murakami
Gaia Rajan (she/her)
Designer of our First Website
Things I love: sad girl indie music, enjambment, aquariums, queer Asian community, augmented reality, the myth of Thessalonike, Natalie Portman movies, climate rage, persona poems, Mitski, passionfruit tea.
Favorite writers: Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Siken, Franny Choi, Megan Fernandes, Ocean Vuong, Chen Chen, Yanyi, Laini Taylor, Danielle Evans, Nicole Sealey
Eugenia Leigh (she/her)
Former Valentines Editor
Things I love: people who cry in public, uni dishes, sapphic alt-pop, evangelical deconstruction, aggressive fashion, Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother, the sacred, the profane, prison abolition, songs with emotionally manipulative rhythmic piano, antiheros, The Rothko Chapel, theoretical physics, mental illness narratives, parentheticals, good tippers, lipstick. I love anything that can melt my miserable heart.
Favorite writers: Salvador Plascencia, Lidia Yuknavitch, Kim Yideum, Diane Seuss, Toi Derricotte, Marie Howe, Mahogany L. Browne, T Kira Madden, Roxane Gay, Tarfia Faizullah, Patrick Rosal, Natalie Diaz, Matthew Olzmann, Claudia Rankine, Min Jin Lee, Choi Seungja, Carlo Rovelli, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Allie Brosh
Angel Leyba (they/them)
Former Social Media Director
Things I love: Videos of baby animals, dirty gin martinis with an olive and a twist, silver hoop earrings, bisexual lighting, boyfriend jeans, breakfast food, swelling strings, dancing under a disco ball, the black chunky platform boot to Nike Cortez pipeline, Humberto’s on 25th and Broadway in San Diego, reality tv, Sanrio, the transition to the second half of Pyramids by Frank Ocean, soup all year long.
Favorite writers: Kim Hyesoon, Natalie Diaz, Terrance Hayes, John Murillo, Imani Davis, Keith S. Wilson, Anna Moschovakis, Lindsay Choi, Sylvia Plath, Claudia Rankine, Raymond Antrobus
Trinity Jones (she/her)
Former Hybrid Editor
Things I love: magic, superpowers, nature, Black and brown women existing, sisterhood, everyday objects/occurrences looked at differently, death, life, love, history retold, retellings
Favorite Writers: Laini Taylor, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Marissa Meyer, Elizabeth Acevedo, bell hooks
Jessica Q. Stark (she/her)
Former Hybrid Editor
Things I love: haunted boudoirs, anti-manifesto manifestoes, final girls, single-panel serial narratives, experimental infographics, femme monsters, radical dictums, poetry comics, comics poetry, sexy ghosts, (in)formal disobedience and/or instructions for survival, plastic palm trees, prison abolitionism, and big cats misbehaving. I love a good shit talking sesh and might make you cry with a can of spam, rice, and some bok choy.
Favorite writers/artists: Taro Gomi, Fiona Staples, Lorna Simpson, Bianca Stone, Phoebe Gloeckner, Sommer Browning, Tula Lotay, Mariko Tamaki, Thi Bui, Eleanor Davis, Lynda Barry, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Julie Doucet, Carrie Mae Weems, Olivia Jaimes
