Editor-in-Chief
RACHEL LU
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Rachel Lu currently resides in New York City. She has gained editorial experience editing Red Weather and working at Lantern Review, Folio Literary Agency, and McIntosh & Otis. She is a two-time recipient of the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Poetry and winner of the Kellogg Essay Prize. Rachel has received grants from the Levitt Public Affairs Center for her research on queer 19th-century Gothic fiction and Asian American history at universities. She graduated from Hamilton College with honors in English literature and Chinese language and literature.
Managing Editor
MARIA GRAY
Maria Gray is a poet from Portland, Oregon, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems are forthcoming from or published in Best New Poets, The Columbia Review, The Lumiere Review, and others. Her poem "Rhythm 0" was selected by Luther Hughes as the winner of The Lumiere Review's 2022 poetry contest, and in 2021, she was named as an Adroit Prizes semifinalist for her poem "Where Were You When Mac Miller Died," which was selected by Paula Bohince for inclusion in the 2022 edition of Best New Poets. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at NYU.
Prose Editor & ABCs of Poetry Director
SOPHIE ALLEN
Sophie Allen studies English and Spanish at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has been awarded by the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the Empire State Scholastic Press Association. She grew up on the beach and still prefers to read there.
Poetry Editor
ELIZA BROWNING
Eliza Browning studied English and art history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and will be studying for a master's degree in modernist literature at the University of Oxford in 2022-2023. Her work appears in The Adroit Journal, Salamander Magazine, Contrary Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly and the Oxford-Cambridge Mays Anthology, among others. An inaugural poetry fellow of the 2019 COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective, she has since helped to direct the program and is passionate about expanding artistic and literary opportunities to students and underserved populations.
Blog Editor & Poetry Reader
WOODY WOODGER
Woody lives in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, from DIAGRAM, Drunk Monkeys, RFD, Exposition Review, peculiar, Prairie Margins, Rock and Sling, and Mass Poetry Festival, among others, and her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net. Her first chapbook, “postcards from glasshouse drive” (Finishing Line Press) was nominated for the 2018 Massachusetts Book Awards. In addition, Woodger served as Poet in Residence with the Here and Now in Pittsfield MA.
Assistant Editor
ERNEST O. ÒGÚNYEMÍ
Ernest O. Ògúnyemí is an eighteen-year-old writer and spoken word artist from Nigeria. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Kalahari Review, Litro 'Comedy' Issue, Lucent Dreaming, Low Light Magazine, Canvas Lit Journal, Agbowó 'Limits' Issue, and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Adroit Summer Mentee. In 2018, he won the Association of Nigerian Authors NECO/Teen Prize for his manuscript of short stories, "Tomorrow Brings Beautiful Things: STORIES.” He is currently working on his first novel.
Poetry Reader
JANE ROSENBERG LAFORGE
Jane has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Story South Million Writers Award, and the Best of the Net. Her novel, "The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War" (Amberjack Publishing 2018) was a Montaigne Medal finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her memoir, "An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir" (Jaded Ibis Press 2014) received an honorable mention in HEEB's Best Books of the (Jewish) Year 5774. She has published four chapbooks of poetry and her full-length poetry collections are "With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women" (Aldrich Press 2012) and "Daphne and Her Discontents" (Ravenna Press 2017).
Prose Reader
MAHIKA GUPTA
Mahika Gupta is a freshman at Colby College. She is an aspiring English major and an avid reader and writer. Aside from fiction, she loves reading about philosophy and finding ways to incorporate it into her writing.
Poetry Reader
ALEXA THEOFANIDIS
Alexa attends St. John's School in Houston, Texas, where she is the Coeditor-in-Chief of the literary arts journal Imagination. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and was part of the Ellipsis Summer Poetry Studio's 2020 cohort. Her work can be found in Rising Phoenix Review, The Loud Journal, and elsewhere. She wishes you a merry, poetry-filled day.
Art Editor & Prose Reader
MIYE SUGINO
Miye Sugino is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles, CA. She is interested in distilling inexpressible topics—like memory, displacement, and loss—into an image. Her work has been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Applied Arts Awards, and Juniper Writing Institute, among others. She is an alumna of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop and Counterclock Arts Collective.
Poetry Reader
JAMIE WEIL
Jamie Weil is a writer, editor, and musician from Plantsville, Connecticut. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, where she majored in Creative Writing and History. Her work has been published in Catchwater Magazine, swim press, Acropolis Journal, and elsewhere.
Prose & Poetry Reader
WILL GARNER
Will Garner is a writer from Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde with joint honours in creative writing and Italian and has recently finished a master’s degree in creative writing. He works in both prose and poetry, editing for his university publication The Strathclyde Review. He was first published in 2022 with his piece Daydreaming of the Caribbean. He is most comfortable writing long form fantasy, but occasionally there are stories that don’t leave his head until they are written down. He once had a 354-day streak on Duolingo and mourns its loss to this day.
Poetry Reader
CHARISSA ZEIGLER
Charissa Xin Zeigler is an adoptee from Yunnan, China. She is studying philosophy and psychology at UC Santa Cruz. She was a poetry mentee in the 2022 TYWI mentorship under poet Will Fargason and is published in Blue Marble Review and Eunoia Review. When not reading or writing, you can find her swimming, defending U2’s latest albums and striking up conversations with people to learn more about a diversity of religious and spiritual practices. She is excited to read your poetry submissions.
Poetry Reader
MADDIE CAVALLINO
Maddie Cavallino is a writer and editor from Upstate New York. She graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in Creative Writing and Classics. Her editorial experience includes the Haley Classical Journal, an undergraduate research journal. She strives to prove that genre is fake and that humanities degrees are worthwhile.
Poetry Reader
BELLA ROTKER
Bella Rotker (they/she) is a sophomore at the Interlochen Arts Academy where they major in creative writing. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up in Miami. They have received recognition from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and was a finalist in the Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest. She won the Haley Naughton Memorial Scholarship to Iowa Young Writers Studio. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Red Wheelbarrow, Crashtest, Hyacinth Review, Lumiere Review, Full Mood Mag, and Healthline Zine, among others. Bella can usually be found trying (and failing) to pet bunnies, pressing flowers, or staring wistfully at bodies of water.
Poetry Reader
HEATHER QIN
Heather Qin (she/her) is a high school student from New Jersey. She is an alumnus of the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference and the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. Her work has been recognized by The New York Times, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Breakbread Literary Magazine, Columbia College Chicago, among others. Heather loves classical music, watching anime, and playing gacha games. Find her @_greenbubbles on Twitter.
Poetry Reader
LUCY CURTIS
Lucy Curtis is from Beverly, MA, but is happy to call Oberlin College home as well, where she is a rising senior creative writing major. She has work that will soon be published in Oberlin’s literary magazine, The Plum Creek Review, and is an arts & culture staff writer for the Oberlin newspaper, The Oberlin Review. At this point, Lucy is mainly a poet but appreciates and has worked within other genres of writing. Outside of writing, she loves nature walks, bright colors, cats, art, and playing guitar. She is excited to be working with COUNTERCLOCK, as she values interdisciplinary art and believes in the power of art and writing to uplift herself and those around her.
Poetry Reader
SATURN BROWNE
Saturn Browne (she/they) is an Asian writer. She lives at the mouth of 2 rivers in New England. Their work appears in SoFloPoJo, Gone Lawn, Eunoia Review, and more. Browne was an alumna of the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop and a 2023 Adroit mentee in Poetry. Her debut chapbook, BLOODPATHS, came out in April with Kith Books. You can find her often on a train and her writing at https://saturnbrowne.carrd.co.
PATCHWORK
PATCHWORK Co-Director
CAROLINE CHAFFIOTTE
Caroline is a senior at Wheaton College, MA, studying Film and English. She primarily works as a cinematographer and photographer, but as of recently, finds herself exploring the world of mixed media and collage. Much of her work centers on themes of family, mental health, addiction, sexuality, and loneliness, with inspiration taken from both literary and visual sources. Her most recent film, Clementine Skin was accepted into the Woods Hole Film Festival. In her free time, she enjoys working as the Art Editor of Babe Lincoln, learning how to surf (alternatively: trying not to drown), and watching movies. Paris is Burning is her favorite, and even though she’s seen it seven times she still cries at the same part. If you've seen it, you know the scene.
PATCHWORK Co-Director
Boatemma Adoawaa Agyeman-Mensah
Editors Emeritus
SARAH FENG (Executive Director, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Arts Collective Director, 2019-22)
Sarah Feng is from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her creative writing has been awarded by the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the Adroit Prizes in Prose & Poetry, NCTE, the Critical Pass Review, American High School Poets, and the Leyla Beban Young Author’s Foundation. She was a 2018 Teen Vogue Underwriting Scholarship Recipient, and her work has been published or forthcoming in The Offing, the Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, DIALOGIST, Indianapolis Review, KQED, the Los Angeles Times, and more. She loves charcoals, guitar, dark chocolate, picnics, and naps. She studies English and Neuroscience at Yale. While at CC, she founded the Arts Collective, began PATCHWORK, oversaw the creation of the CC Writer’s Awards and ABCs of Poetry, expanded social media and outreach, and continued to publish themed quarterly issues, with multimedia and interdisciplinary elements. She has so much love in her heart for the interdisciplinary arts and is always with CC in spirit.
Claire S. Lee, Editor-in-Chief (2018–2019), is a college student from Southern California. Her writing has been recognized by Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Ringling College of Art and Design, the National YoungArts Foundation, and the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and appears/is forthcoming in THRUSH Poetry Journal, Inklette, The Indianapolis Review, Rising Phoenix Review, *82 Review, Noble/Gas Qtrly, Alexandria Quarterly, and Blue Marble Review, among others. She is a California Arts Scholar and a poetry reader for Winter Tangerine Review. Her editing work has been recognized by the NCTE and the Del Mar Fair.
Rachel Evelyn Sucher, Founder of COUNTERCLOCK Journal & Editor-in-Chief (2017-2018), is a queer-identified Vermont writer, activist, performer, horsewoman, and intersectional feminist. Her poems have been shortlisted for the International Literary Award (Rita Dove Award in Poetry) and the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets, and longlisted for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. Rachel is also a founding member and editor of Mandatory Assembly literary journal. A mentee in the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program and the Glass Kite Anthology Summer Writing Studio, she has also attended the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf and the Champlain College Young Writers' Conference. Her work is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Luna Luna Magazine, Dream Pop Journal, Yes Poetry, Channillo, and Rising Phoenix Review, as well as the anthology Destigmatized from Madness Muse Press. When she isn’t wrestling writer’s block or the patriarchy, Rachel can be found snuggling puppies, making music, and overthinking in her nerdy poet's notebook. Connect with Rachel on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and her website, Rachel Sucher Writes.
Past staff members: Esther Sun, Simone Gulliver, Vivien Song, Patrick Tong, Zineb Laadioui, Leah Chase, Mayu Alten.