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Michelle Sijian Ma
Leland Quarterly | Winter 2022
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Contributing Artists & Writers
Hannah Cha (visual art) is an artist and humanitarian, dedicated to innovating with her creativity. Being a freshman new to Stanford, she explores the overlap between social justice and art through stickers, art prints, and paintings. Matcha latte in hand, she hopes to make a positive, social impact in the world.
Leah Arima Chase (poetry, visual art) is a junior majoring in English. Their work attempts to uncover the historical processes of race and gender through visual and textual mediums. Their poetry also features a focus on the body as a site of violence, trauma, and healing. In their spare time, they like to hike, read children’s fiction, and tend to their plants.
Adam Chin (Prose) was born in Toronto and grew up in Vancouver, BC with his Chinese-Jamaican single mother with visits to his hippy father in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After dropping out of a professional acting program to travel the world making films, he now finds himself studying screenwriting at Stanford.
Jennifer Co (she/her) (poetry) is a Chinese Filipina writer and sensitive eldest daughter from Brisbane, California. She recently graduated from UC Berkeley’s Chemistry and Creative Writing departments, where she was literary editor for {m}aganda magazine for two years. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Biology, and is continuing to try to find the words.
Cole Dill-De Sa (prose) is from Hawai’i.
Isabelle Edgar (poetry) is a sophomore who calls Woods Hole and many people home.
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Alice Fang (visual art) is obsessed with stories. She reads, doodles, stares at moving pictures, and writes frantically with her mental typewriter on a daily basis. She enjoys good food, dog-watching, and amusement parks. Her short-term goal is to start a comic strip.
Caroline Gao (visual art) earned her symbolic systems bachelor’s degree June 2020 and is now finishing up her master’s in computer science. Though her degrees show otherwise, Caroline loves the arts – writing, drawing, painting – anything creative, really. Outside of academics and art, Caroline enjoys cycling, Chipotle, and a good prank / pun (which to her, is also considered an art).
Elizabeth Grant (poetry) is a senior at Stanford, where she studies English and the Creative Writing Poetry. She is from Southern California, and loves caring for her many plants.
Surya Hendry (poetry) is a junior studying Political Science. She is from Seattle. She writes, occasionally.
Anna Kiesewetter (poetry) is a freshman at Stanford University from Issaquah, Washington. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards and Skipping Stones, and can be found in Polyphony Lit, Blue Marble Review, Prometheus Dreaming, and Rising Phoenix Review. A firm believer in the psychological nature of literature, she writes to explore the complexities of human experience, identity, and perception.
Yasi Khan (poetry) is a senior majoring in Symbolic Systems and minoring in Creative Writing (Poetry). She is from San Francisco.
Connor Lane (poetry) is a 5th year Senior from Raleigh, North Carolina, and he has had the honor of being rejected from all sorts of esteemed literary publications in the past (including LQ). He will show you pictures of his dog, Cody, both prompted and unprompted.
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Contributing Artists & Writers
Sijia Ma (visual Art) (b. 2001 in Shenyang, China), is a visual artist based in Shanghai and Massachusetts. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in Studio Arts and Quantitative Economics at Smith College, MA. She also studied Photography at Amherst College in 2020. Sijia has worked to develop image-based projects and used the language of photography to explore the complexity of today’s Chinese identity in a subtler way.
Aden McCracken (he/him) (poetry, visual art) is a freshman studying Psychology with a concentration in Health and Development, while also minoring in Creative Writing. His passion for advocacy and awareness bleeds over into his art through his external reflections of his identity as a COSA (child of substance abusers), recovering alcoholic, and low-income, first-generation student.
Chaidie Petris (poetry) is a Greek-American poet and a sophomore at Stanford University. Their work has recently been published in Stanford’s Leland Quarterly and the Eunoia Review, and will appear in The Blue Route this coming spring. In the tradition of the Beats, their work is often inspired by their travels and conversations with members of oppressed classes in America.
Danny Ritz (prose) is a junior from Rydal, Pennsylvania. He isstudying English (Creative Writing) and Music.
Isabella Sarraco (poetry) is a junior studying History and Creative Writing. Born and raised in Chicago, she is interested in folklore, gender and sexuality, and chinchillas. She wants to get a PhD to become a history professor. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her friends.
Nur Shelton (visual art) is a Junior from Ashland, Oregon. He spends his time at Stanford climbing at the rock wall, tap dancing, exploring the Santa Cruz Mountains, and studying English.
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Anna Zheng (prose) is a freshman originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she enjoys writing bad poetry and marginally less bad short fiction. She has previously been published in Sandpiper. She is not sure what she’s doing.
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