UCLA's Journal of the Arts
UCLA's Journal of the Arts
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Gwendolyn Lopez (she/her)
Managing Editor
Gwendolyn Lopez is a fourth-year English and communication double major with a creative writing minor. A fiction writer and occasional poet, she is drawn to the intersection between the speculative and the literary. She enjoys reading well-worn library books and drinking all forms of tea.
Issy McKellar (she/her)
Managing Editor
Issy McKellar is a fourth year English and sociology major hoping to minor in creative writing and disability studies. She spent most of her childhood swimming in the Pacific Ocean and lakes of Oklahoma, and now enjoys reading, writing, and crocheting silly animals.
Jessica Li (she/her)
Executive Poetry Editor
Jessica Li is a third year English student from the Bay Area. When she’s not writing sapphic horror, working toward her yearly 100-book reading goal, or playing hit mobile game Identity V, she likes listening to Taiwanese rock and making noodle soups. You can find her writing in Writers for the Future, NESFA, and recent Westwind journals.
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Jessica Meeker (she/her)
Executive Poetry Editor
Jessica is a third-year English major and creative writing minor at UCLA. She loves poetry, writing, and her people. You can find her @jessica_rose_author on Instagram.
Maya Allen (she/her)
Executive Fiction Editor
Maya is a fourth year English major with a minor in Professional Writing and African American Studies. She is a writer with an interest in magical realism and creative nonfiction. Maya enjoys puzzles, crafting, and hopes to find a career in publishing as a developmental editor.
Roman Bieliaieva (he/she/they)
Executive Fiction Editor
Roman Bieliaieva is a fourth-year English and Psychology double major from the Bay. When they’re not busy researching bizarre historical details for their novels, they can be found reading, crocheting to modern rock, and binging vaguely queer crime procedurals.
Logan Shobe (he/him)
Executive Fiction Editor
Logan Shobe is a fourth-year English major from the Central Valley. While writing is his first and foremost passion, his many other interests include: wine-tasting, clothes that smell like tobacco, and old, thrifted books.
Alexandrah Naranjo (she/her)
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Alexandrah Naranjo is a third-year Political Science major with a strong passion for analysis, visual art, and writing. She loves listening to music, especially classic rock, and enjoys experimenting with fashion and makeup.
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Hyerim Yoon (she/they)
Blog Editor
Hyerim Yoon is a fourth-year/second-year transfer student double majoring in English and history. She has previously edited for FEM Newsmagazine and Quaestio, UCLA’s undergraduate history journal. Outside of her extracurriculars that revolve around writing and editing, she serves as the Undergraduate Students Association Council Transfer Student Representative. In her free time, she enjoys tinkering with fountain pens and preserving vintage books for her personal collection.
Hannah Park (she/her)
Art Editor
Hannah Park is a second-year English major and novelist who enjoys writing fiction in experimental settings. Her work centers on kinship with nature, the experience of the bittersweet, and ancient societies. Hannah also finds joy in running, drawing, and nurturing California native plants.
Mia Dowdell (she/her)
Design Editor
Mia Dowdell is a fourth-year English and Sociology double major from Redondo Beach. In her free time, she likes collecting funky keychains and taking personality quizzes.
Julie Wong (she/her)
Outreach Director
Julie Wong is a third-year English and Psychology major (with a prospective Creative Writing minor) at UCLA, where she won the 2026 Olfet Agrama Prize for Creative Writing. She likes rain, persimmons, and mythology. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Blue Earth Review, Lunch Ticket, Sierra Nevada Review, and elsewhere.
Jack Stebbins (he/him)
Social Chair
Jack Walker Stebbins is a Philosophy Student at UCLA who has been interested in writing and more specifically short stories and poetry since he was very young. He has experience writing for his high school's newspaper, as well as writing short stories and poems recreationally for friends and family. Jack is passionate about fiction and literature, and hopes to pursue a legal career in the field of art law.