2016 Director & Mentors 
of GKA's Summer Writing Studio

MARGARET ZHANG | Director

Margaret Zhang is a senior at Castilleja School (Palo Alto, CA), where she appreciates memes and serves as the Editor-in-Chief/Co-Founder of Glass Kite Anthology. She has attended writing workshops at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, among others. Read her other work in DIALOGIST, Gigantic Sequins, Words Dance, Cadaverine, the Foyle Young Poets Anthology, and other journals.
Favorite Writers: Ocean Vuong, Richard Siken, Kelly Link, C. D. Wright, Stuart Dybek, Karen Russell

 Brynne Rebele-Henry’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Fiction International, Rookie, and So to Speak, among other places. Her writing has won numerous awards, including the 2015 Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, the 2016 Adroit Prize for Prose, and a 2017 Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner. Her first book Fleshgraphs appeared with Nightboat Books in 2016. Her second book, Autobiography of a Wound, won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize and  is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2019. She’s working on her first novel, Orpheus Girl. 
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Favorite Writers: Danez Smith, Maggie Nelson, Ocean Vuong, Julia Elliott, Leslie Jamison

BRYNNE REBELE-HENRY | Prose & Poetry

​AIDAN FORSTER | Poetry

Aidan Forster is a junior in high school. He studies creative writing at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina, where he is the managing editor of Crashtest and the blog editor of The Adroit Journal. His work has been nationally recognized by the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and will appear in the 2015 ART.WRITE.NOW.DC exhibit. He is the recipient of the 2015 Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship, and the winner of the 2015 Say What Open Mic Fresh Out the Oven Poetry Slam. His work appears or is forthcoming from Assaracus, Best Teen Writing of 2015, DIALOGIST, Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Verse, among others.
Favorite Writers: Richard Siken, Michael Dickman, Ocean Vuong, Ada Limon, Ross Gay, Richie Hoffman, Banana Yoshimoto, Tarfia Faizullah, Jamaal May

Oriana Tang is a rising sophomore at Yale University.  Her prose and poetry have been published in The Best Teen Writing of 2014, PANK, Killing the Angel, The Sierra Nevada Review, Winter Tangerine Review, and The Adroit Journal, where she is currently a prose reader.  She is a 2015 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts - Writing (short story and poetry) and a Davidson Fellow in Literature.  You can usually find her asleep face-down on her desk.
Favorite Writers:  Yiyun Li, George Saunders, C.D. Wright, Jenny Zhang, Emma Cline, Junot Diaz

ORIANA TANG | Prose

DEVANSHI KHETARPAL | Poetry

Devanshi Khetarpal's poems have been published in Souvenir, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, HIV Here and Now, Alexandria Quarterly, and The Cadaverine among others. Her work has been recognised by Hollins University and Columbia College Chicago. Khetarpal has attended the Iowa Young Writers' Studio 2015 and the University of Virginia's Young Writers Workshop 2016. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Inklette Magazine, a Poetry Editor for Moledro Magazine and previously served as a Poetry Editor for Phosphene Literary Journal. Devanshi currently lives in Bhopal, India.
Favorite Writers:​ Agha Shahid Ali, Aleš Šteger, Rumi, Mani Rao, Arundhati Subramaniam.  

Sophie Govert is a prose reader at Glass Kite Anthology and an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and has appeared in journals like Sprout Magazine and Teenage Wasteland Review. Beyond writing, she enjoys yelling about hockey, appreciating trees, and listening to Carl Hiaasen audiobooks. You can find her on Twitter @sophgov.
Favorite Writers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Neil Gaiman, Sandra Cisneros, Sarah Vowell

SOPHIE GOVERT | Prose

TOPAZ WINTERS | Poetry

Topaz Winters is a poet in a raining city. She resides at topazwinters.com.
Favourite Writers: Richard Siken, e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Alvin Pang

Alyssa Mazzoli is a young writer from Greenville, South Carolina. She works or has worked for Crashtest magazine, Fissure magazine, and Polyphony H.S. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from GAMS, Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, Four Chambers, Juked, and The Kenyon Review. Right now, she is listening to You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore, and she will probably continue to listen to that song, on repeat, for a while.
Favorite Writers: Donald Barthelme, Lidia Yuknavitch, Z.Z. Packer​

ALYSSA MAZZOLI | Prose

KATHRYN HARGETT | Poetry

Kathryn Hargett is a senior at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where she has studied creative writing since the seventh grade. Her work has been regularly recognized by universities and organizations such as Princeton University, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Alabama Writers' Forum, the UK Poetry Society, Gannon University, Hollins University, and others. She is the editor-in-chief of Cadence. Her poetry has been published in or is forthcoming from the Adroit Journal, Gigantic Sequins, DIALOGIST, Sierra Nevada Review, the Interlochen Review, Cargoes, the Claremont Review, and elsewhere. She is a Chinese-American poet from the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama, where she is regularly harassed by small caravans of armadillos, deer, wild boars, and coyotes. 
Favorite writers: Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Junot Diaz, Tim O'Brien, Warsan Shire

Annalise Lozier is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studies creative writing. She is a Foyle Young Poet of the Year, and her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the Luminarts Cultural Foundation. Her work has been published in The Jackalope, The Adroit Journal, and The Kenyon Review.
Favorite Writers: Aimee Bender, Lorrie Moore, Josh Bell, Meg Day, Stuart Dybek, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Agatha Christie, Douglas Adams

ANNALISE LOZIER | Poetry

CHRISTINA IM | Poetry

Christina Im is a Korean-American writer and student from Portland, Oregon. Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in YARN: Young Adult Review Network, Words Dance, Strange Horizons, and The Adroit Journal, among others. In addition, her work has been recognized by Hollins University, the Adroit Prize for Poetry, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Her non-poetry interests (though admittedly few) include reading fairytales, watching foreign films, and coming up with punny names for her Pokémon.
Favorite Writers: Ocean Vuong, Franny Choi, Richard Siken, Sylvia Plath