rose quartz magazine
Kate Wilson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and attends Westminster College. They are the Editor in Chief of Issue 56 of ellipsis… Literature and Art, work as an interview correspondent with Half Mystic Press, and serve as a poetry editor for Rose Quartz Magazine. Three of their poems were selected for the Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize and their work can be found with Pressure Gauge Press, The Albion Review, and Parentheses Journal, among others.
POETRY EDITOR
KATE WILSON
Shay Hudson, 21, is a queer woman from Salt Lake. Industrial photography is her love. She loves to examine the ways humans change and influence their environment and try to find and document the beauty there. The more broken down the building, the better. Some day, hopefully soon, she'll graduate college as long as she actually writes her thesis instead of hiding with her camera.
VISUAL ART EDITOR
Shay Hudson
Caroljean Gavin writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in such places as Voicemail Poems, The Ampersand Review, Cease, Cows, the You Are Not Your R*pe Anthology, and The 2011 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology where she took second prize in the short story category as judged by Chris Offutt. She is currently working on a story collection, and novel, and lives in North Carolina with her family and their one-eyed Shih Tzu, Moxie.
CNF / FF editor
Caroljean Gavin
Bára Hladíková is a writer and artist based in Tiohtiá:ke, Montréal. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, Royal Rose, Seafoam Mag, Charcuterie, and elsewhere. She is the founder of Theta Wave and her book Behind the Curtain was recently published by Publication Studio. She tweets @_carodejnice
INTERVIEW EDITOR
Bára Hladíková
Cassidy Scanlon is a queer poet, Capricorn, and astrologer who received her BFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. Her work has been featured in L'Éphémère Review, Loaf Mag, and other self-publications. She writes about astrology on her blog Mercurial Musingshttps://mercurialastromusings.blogspot.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @sassidysucklon.
COLUMNIST
CASSIDY SCANLON
Caroline Butler is a writer living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is pursuing a degree in Creative Writing at Florida State University. Her work has been featured in Anti-Heroin Chic, Peculiars Magazine and Ink & Nebula. She is the social media manager for Rose Quartz Magazine and she tweets @car0linebutler.
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
CAROLINE BUTLER
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS
Maya-Elena Jackson is a female author and musician from the Sonoran Desert. She is a regular contributor at rose quartz magazine and has had scattered pieces published across many different formats of journals, lit mags, buildings, and radio frequencies. Her first curated collection of poetry ‘Heaving Numerals’ is available on Amazon. Maya-Elena writes frequently about the female experience, the magic of nature and connection, and surviving.
MAYA ELENA JACKSON
roman pace is a southern-based nonbinary lesbian artist exploring madness and queerness through collage, poetry and photography. their work touches on many issues, from exploring the divine feminine, to grappling with hyperobjects such as climate change. you can find their work on instagram (@roman.pace), and view their first zine, states of change, released through twiin flame art collective, co-founded with sara gregory, at saragregory.org.
roman pace
Jasmine Torres is a literature and writing student at University of California San Diego. It gives her great joy to read and create poetry as well as be part of a community that creates safe spaces for creators’ works. Her work has been published in Royal Rose Magazine and she looks forward to future publications. Jasmine likes to live her life as best she can with positive energy and love! You can follow her on twitter @relax_kiddo.
JASMINE TORRES
Jam Bridgett is a queer artist, writer and student living in Toronto. Their work focuses on gender, love and revolution. They are currently writing a very queer, very messy YA novel. Jam’s work can be found in publications like Tongue Tied Magazine, UC Gargoyle @ the University of Toronto and the Black Cabinet Magazine @ York University. Find them on Instagram @artbyjam_ or Twitter @yikesjamaica
JAM BRIDGETT
Keana Águila Labra (she/her) is the Editor-in-Chief of Marías at Sampaguitas. Her work may be found in the Aoi Kuma Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, Peculiars Magazine, Peeking Cat Poetry, Reclaim Anthology, and La Scrittrice. She penned articles as the co-editor of Chopsticks Alley Pinoy. She is a regular contributor for Royal Rose Magazine and Rose Quartz Magazine. She is a Poetry Reader for Homology Lit. Knowing the importance of representation, her work is evidence that Filipino Americans are present in the literary world. She is on Twitter as @KeanaLabra.
Keana Águila Labra
Prithiva Sharma is a twenty year old student from India (going on 21 now!). Her hobbies are -procrastinating, whining about how she is not ready for adulthood, and yelling at people who
think ‘moderate’ is a political leaning. She writes to exorcize herself, and to help someone,anyone, possibly even one person in the whole realm to reach their catharsis.
PRITHIVA SHARMA
Léna is a twenty-year-old kid from the Paris suburbs. They make art inspired by their experience as a child of the West African diaspora living in French suburbia grappling with their gender and sexuality. Their main medium is digital and film photography as well as collage. They also dabble in videography, poetry, and writing tiny think pieces about pop culture in tumblr tags. They are more or less pursuing a bachelors degree in political science. They can be found making
increasingly obscure playlists, going feral over repressed media, and fuming over capitalism.
Léna Sant’Anna
Melis Gördem, a current Sophomore at Rutgers University as of the Fall 2019 semester. She is currently majoring in Psychology and minoring in Creative Writing to get the best of both worlds of her passions. Besides balancing her coursework, she enjoys writing melodramatic poetry and prose in the spur of the moment when reminiscing life experiences. One of her fervor poems, “why i didn't march,” is featured on the She Will Speak Series: Gender Based Violence Anthology curated by Cheyenne Tyler Jacobs. She hopes that with her introspective poetry and prose, she will be heard.