CHARM Editorial Intern Bios

Nakiya B. is currently attending CRJ High School and will be a senior starting this fall. She is new at CHARM, and her hobbies include drawing, painting, journaling, watching anime, reading, and creative writing. Recently, she received a Grad at Grad award from her school for asking questions when needed and keeping up with her schoolwork. She had been inducted into the National Honors Society for her high GPA. Through this internship, she intends to practice her writing and editing skills while presenting creative ideas and stepping out of her shell.

Shubhan B. is a sophomore at UMBC. In 8th grade, he won a poetry competition which led him to have a poem for a CHARM publication in 2018 finally. By 2019, he joined as an editor and made poems for publications such as Filters and Love, also doing the cover art for Love. He has a passion for writing poems, stories, producing music, drawing, and painting.

Stephanie Jeghede is a sophomore at Towson University. She is new to CHARM. She received several awards while in JROTC in highschool. Her hobbies include reading, crocheting, and she hopes to learn a lot more at CHARM and contribute however she can.

Ju’wonte Jenkins is a rising freshman at Connexions: A Community-Based Arts High School. This is his first time working with CHARM. Ju’wonte loves dressing up, watching movies or You Tube, and his favorite day is Halloween. He also loves school and his favorite subject is in fact math. He’s 14 years old and his birthday is June 9.

Jenna Nesky is a poet and a senior at Carver Center for Arts and Technology. She was a finalist in the Narrative High School Contest, and is published in journals including Eunoia Review. As she enters college, she hopes to study creative writing and poetry.

Sarah Pobee recently graduated middle school (Mount Royal EMS) and is excited to attend Baltimore City College in the fall. Due to her interest in writing, she participated in CHARM’s virtual writers workshops and won 3rd place in a citywide writing contest with the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Other than writing, Sarah enjoys reading, dancing, baking, writing, cooking and spending time with her cats, Mu and Rho.

Devon Reown is a senior history major and studio arts minor at McDaniel College. When they were in elementary school, a poem that they wrote was published in CHARM Magazine. Their interests include art, creative writing, acting, and they’re slowly getting into graphic design. Devon hopes that, through working with CHARM, they will be able to continue improving their skills as a writer and as an artist.

Maya Walker is an incoming freshman at Chatham University who plans to study creative writing and Spanish. From Towson, she is fascinated by the intersections of language and writing, particularly poetry. She is the founder and editor in chief of Fulminare Review as well as an executive editor at Spiritus Mundi Review and a staff writer for Immortal Journal. Over the past year, Maya interned at Mason Jar Press and wrote a poetry book which she is currently trying to find a home for. She is excited to continue working with literature through CHARM’s internship sites.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Thanks to OZ Sanders for leading the graphic design process and for sharing your expertise with our student editors.

Thanks to editors Shubhan Bhat and Devon Reown for creating the cover art for this volume.

Thanks to Lynn Hade for the back cover photograph.

Thanks to Rob Dickerson at Work Printing and Graphics for another beautifully printed publication.