West 10th is a literary journal publishing poetry, prose, art, and photography by New York University's undergraduate students. It is edited and produced annually by a student-run editorial board and the NYU Creative Writing Program.
MASTHEAD
Kelsie Bennett
Editor-in-Chief
Kelsie Bennett (they/them) is a senior studying Media, Culture, and Communication and Creative Writing. Originally from North Carolina, they now split their time between the Lower East Side and Providence. Their writing has been recognized by The Adroit Journal and the National Youngarts Foundation. Short stories and poems have been featured in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts, The Foundationalist, Spires Magazine, and elsewhere.
Lauren Stanzione
Managing Editor
Lauren Stanzione is a junior from NJ majoring in English and Creative Writing. Her hobbies include getting lost in cities, deep thoughts on trains, cooking pasta, and repeatedly listening to the same five songs. Her work can be found in PARK Magazine, Kelsey Review, Washington Square News, and West 10th.
Amara Shein
Prose Editor
Amara Shein is a senior at CAS studying Public Policy with minors in Creative Writing and Mathematics. With too many passions and not enough decisiveness, she has narrowed her goals down to three: be a lawyer, publish a novel, and open a restaurant. During her free time, she loves swimming, attempting new recipes, spending time with loved ones, going on long drives or walks, and of course, reading and writing.
Hannah Keselman
Prose Editor
Hannah Keselman (she/her) is a sophomore at CAS majoring in English with a concentration (and minor) in Creative Writing. She spends most of her time reading other people's books and trying to write her own. When she is not writing, she enjoys listening to Taylor Swift, doing the New York Times Spelling Bee, and dreaming up new dessert recipes.
Bella Jiang
Prose Editor
Bella Jiang is a junior from California majoring in Media, Culture, and Communication with a minor in Business of Media, Entertainment, and Technology. Aside from the obvious reading and writing, she enjoys art of any medium, video essays, bodies of water, and puzzles. She is also allegedly notorious for her ability to fall asleep anywhere at any time.
Phoenix Frank
Prose Editor
Phoenix is a junior at CAS pursuing a degree in English and Creative Writing. When not working on her own interactive novel, she spends most of her time juggling various writing + editing projects, bumming around in cafes, and aimlessly touring the city with a good seasonal playlist at hand.
Josie Sedam
Prose Editor
Josie is a sophomore majoring in politics with a minor in creative writing. She loves traveling, writing, and talking about Taylor Swift. She can often be found listening to audiobooks on long walks or enjoying a bagel sandwich in the park.
Kimi Canete
Prose Editor
Kimi Canete (she/her/hers) is a senior studying English, creative writing, and French. Her work has been published in Laurel Moon and October Hill Magazine, where she is an assistant poetry editor. When not reading or writing, she can often be found at the Strand or the Met.
Hazel Walrod
Prose Editor
Hazel Walrod is a sophomore studying Linguistics and (hopefully/probably) minoring in Creative Writing. She likes writing and reading about sad women, as well as knitting and learning languages.
Joyce Cayre
Prose Editor
Joyce Cayre is Sophomore at CAS studying English Literature and Creative Writing. She spends most of her time reading, writing, and drinking Diet Coke as if it were a personality trait. Her work features protagonists you will probably hate.
Sam Earley
Prose Editor
Sam Earley is a junior from Los Angeles, California. He is majoring in English with minors in Creative Writing and Psychology. He writes about America in all its shapes and sizes and multitudes. You can primarily find his work taped to the walls of his room, in various levels of completeness. Sam enjoys reading and collecting books (two different hobbies), as well as photography, road trips, and always doing two things at once.
Winter Jung
Poetry Editor
Please refrain from mentioning oxford commas around Winter Jung. They are a junior studying creative writing, linguistics, and the perfect coffee order. When not joking about their perpetually unfinished projects, they can be found starting another perpetually unfinished project.
Ranina Simon
Poetry Editor
Ranina Simon ping-ponged between living in DC and Jakarta before landing in New York. She studies Literature (Creative Writing track) and Journalism. Ranina carries around a leather notebook that she uses to write poems about strangers, which really tells you everything you need to know about her.
Laila Kayyali
Poetry Editor
Laila Kayyali is studying Media, Culture and Communication with minors in Creative Writing and Documentary. She is based in New York but often visits home in Amman, Jordan. Her simple pleasures include reading the Modern Love column in The New York Times, completing the Mini Crossword, and listening to good poetry.
Pritheva Zakaria
Poetry Editor
Pritheva Zakaria is a sophomore double majoring in Journalism and English. When she's not reading or writing, she loves to spend time with her friends exploring NYC (for free of course). Her other hobbies include cooking, doing her makeup, making questionable decisions, and always having a story to tell.
Emerald Lin
Poetry Editor
Emerald Lin is a third-year studying English and Ecology at NYU. They grew up in Taiwan. They enjoy long walks and are currently slightly obsessed with birds. Their work has appeared in West 10th, Aromatica Poetica, Portrait, Generasian, and Mercer Street.
Jennifer Quran Yang
Poetry Editor
Jennifer (any) is a senior majoring in Global Liberal Studies and Comparative Literature. When not swamped by school work or worrying about the future, you can find them reading, drawing, or crocheting while watching a show.
Priya Rinkus
Poetry Editor
Priya Ele Rinkus is a dramatic writing student from New Jersey. She has work in Passages North, Rejection Letters, Hobart after Dark, and Pidgeonholes, among others. Her play “Red Handed” was performed off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse as part of the Lighthouse Series.
Aimee Hong
Poetry Editor
Aimee Hong is a senior in CAS majoring in Classical Civilizations and Anthropology with minors in Chemistry, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies, and Creative Writing. When she’s not writing lines of poetry in her notes app or little red Moleskin, you can find her running along the pier, ordering every appetizer on the menu, or doing laundry.
Mary Carolonza
Art Editor & Event Team
Mary Carolonza is a senior studying Global Public Health and Applied Psychology. She is currently interested in reading memoirs and poetry. Her favorite things to do around campus are to go to concerts at Bowery Ballroom, window shop in SoHo, and find the best flower cafes and iced matcha. In her free time she loves creating Spotify Blends with her friends, listening to music, and time with her friends and chihuahua puppy.
Eliana Brown
Art Editor
Eliana Brown is a junior at CAS studying Journalism, English, and Creative Writing. With a passion for literature and writing about culture and art, she spends most of her time stressing about her yearly Goodreads challenge and talking about Taylor Swift. More often than not, she can be found at a concert somewhere.
Lena Melentijevic
Copy Editor
Lena Melentijevic is a junior in CAS and Steinhardt, double majoring in Journalism and Media, Cultures and Communications. Lena is from Belgrade, Serbia. When she's not buried in research for one of her next articles, you can find her bumming everyone out by singing sad music in karaoke, dancing, diamond painting or talking somebody's ear off.
Alex Ridley
Copy Editor
Alex Ridley (he/him) is a copyeditor for West 10th’s 2023-24 season. He's based in the East Village, San Francisco born and raised. An Anthro major, but he just picked up a minor in BEMT to try out music business and data analysis. He’s been spending his free time playing guitar, and is currently having a strike of songwriting inspiration. If you wanna jam or need an accompanist (on rhythm or lead), let him know @415ridley. He equally loves longterm projects and a good one-off gig. He’s the Publicity Chief (and social media manager) of NYU’s Greene St. Review. Before that, he Stage Managed a bunch—and will still SM/AD/Direct your show if you ask. He hopes to create one project he’s proud of in every artistic medium.
Samantha Long
Copy Editor
Samantha Long hails from Boston, Massachusetts. She is studying interdisciplinary creative writing at NYU. Her favorite poem is My Amaryllis by Deborah Digges, and she is currently reading Las Madres by Esmerelda Santiago.
Maya Monteleone
Copy Editor
Maya Monteleone is a junior studying English Literature in the College of Arts & Science. She transferred to NYU from Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, where she studied drama. A lover of singing and 19th century gothic novels, she can be found visiting museums or listening to jazz.
Lola Bosa
Copy Editor
Lola Bosa is a junior majoring in English Literature and minoring in Creative Writing. She enjoys writing about things that happen to her and labeling them as fiction. In her spare time, she reorganizes her bookshelf, does the Wordle when she remembers, and listens to excruciatingly sad music.
Aileen Vásquez
Copy Editor & Event Team
Aileen Vásquez is a sophomore at CAS studying English and American Studies. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Aileen spends most of her time reading books, walking around bookstores, listening to Arctic Monkeys, and thinking about writing but not actually doing it.
Vella Chen
Copy Editor
Vella is a senior, double-majoring in English and Cinema Studies with a minor in Creative Writing. Her hobbies include trying novelty drinks at local cafes and going into bookstores to look at titles but not actually buy anything. She is a very stereotypical Virgo and maintains spreadsheets detailing every book she reads and every movie she watches.
Ari Kozloski
Copy Editor
Ari is a junior from California majoring in Media, Culture, and Communication and minoring in Creative Writing. You’ve probably guessed she loves to read and write, but she also enjoys cheap weeknight dinners with friends, the aquarium in her hometown, and pithy lists. She’s also training for her first 5k!
Jessie Sun
Event & Web Team
Jessie Sun is a sophomore majoring in English on Creative Writing track, with double minors in Integrated Design and Media & Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. She loves iced oat latte, tennis, and McDonald fries!
Minha Choi
Web Team
Minha Choi is a Junior at CAS majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, as well as a minor in BEMT. She is most interested in translation theory, and spends much of her time looking up various translated works for non-english poems that interest her. When she's not doing that she's oftentimes writing her own poems, or crocheting yet another beanie. Her poem can be found in West 4th Review.
Daniella Pineda
Web Team
Daniella Pineda is a student at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a concentration in Media and Migrations studies and a Creative Writing minor. Growing up she found comfort in writing as a means of self-expression and exploration. She writes poetry, essays, and occasionally moves across genres, (aka she just writes.) Raised in Honduras, her writing took a focus on place, identity, and the in-between. Her work can be found in West 10th, The Literacy Review, and her blog daniellaapineda.com.
Spencer Squitieri
Web Team
Spencer Thomas is a Junior at the NYU College of Arts and Sciences studying English on the Creative Writing Track with minors in Film Production, Creative Writing, and Journalism. Thomas is the creator of “byspencerthomas,” an account dedicated towards creative writing, lifestyle content, and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, with a combined following of over 260,000. His debut book will be released in early 2024.
Kaia Eckton
Web Team
Kaia Eckton is a sophomore studying English Literature and Economics. When not tearing her hair out over her economics homework, she can usually be found doing crossword puzzles, trying (and failing) to write her own short stories, and reading long, complicated fantasy novels.
Chehak Sehdev
Event & Web Team