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| Strip Mall Magazine. | |
Editorial, production, project management.
Strip Mall Magazine is a literary publication from the MFA Creative Writing program at California Institute of the Arts.
I founded the magazine in 2023 as a first-year graduate student, building a diverse community of editors, writers, and artists from across the country. 
In my role as inaugural Editor-in-Chief, I led the editorial team in submissions review, designed interior layouts for poetry, prose, and visual arts spreads, and reviewed final proofs for each issue before sending them to print.
As a new publication, accessibility was critical in finding our audience. I used Squarespace’s CMS to build and maintain a website where we released each issue for free, in addition to our print releases.
In celebration of each issue’s launch, we collaborated with other L.A. literary groups to host readings highlighting our local contributors. 
At the end of my two years in the program, Strip Mall Magazine had published three full-color print and digital issues, featuring writers and artists from across the U.S, Canada, China, and Brazil. When I left my post as Editor-in-Chief, we had secured annual institutional funding, and were preparing for distribution with a small group of Los Angeles bookstores and art collectives.
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| Novel | |
Fiction writing.
A novel-in-stories, seeking publication. 55,000 words.
Nineteen-year-old Allan and his brother Jackie roam the country, sleeping in rest stops and surviving on odd jobs. Reeling from their father’s recent death, the tenuous balance they've found between cooperation and codependence is threatened when family secrets and questions about the future start bubbling up from the backseat. As they drive aimlessly into the strange America outside the suburbs, they weave through the lives of tourists, locals, and other transient workers—a young woman unravelling a murder, a teenage boy haunted by rabbits, a rodeo bull rider who might be carrying a baby. Across every state line, a central question remains: what does it mean to stay, and what does it mean to go? Read a sample. |
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| Lucky | |
Screenwriting, directing, film production.
Short film, 2025.
A teenage boy is haunted by strange visions after killing a rabbit outside his suburban neighborhood. |
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| May You Find What You're Looking For | |
Writing, production, project management. |
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| "The Dogs on Main Street Howl" zine | |
Writing, design. |
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| Prop Site Build | |
Writing, web design. |
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| Audio Descriptions | |
Writing. |
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| Homeschool Promotional Newsletter | |
Writing. |
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| Pyramidal, LLC | |
UI design, product proposal, project management. |