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.
2024-2025 Editor-in-Chief Lauren Stanzione and Managing Editor Sam Earley pictured above with West 10th’s most recent issue, Issue 18.
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Joyce Cayre
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Joyce Cayre is Senior 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.
Ranina Simon
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Ranina Simon is a senior from DC and Jakarta, but she's doing her best to make New York homebase. She studies English Literature (with a concentration in Creative Writing) and Journalism. Ranina spends her time needlessly buying leather jackets, brooding on her fire escape, and writing poems about brooding on her fire escape.
Lili Raynaud
Managing Editor
Lili Raynaud is a junior at NYU studying Journalism, Politics, and Creative Writing. In her free time, she enjoys going on walks, eating Asian food, and wistfully reading Proust on the Metro-North. She does the New York Times crossword every Monday, and tends to writes poetry about the same thing twice. Her work can be found in Same Faces Collective, A Partager Zine, The Weasel, and elsewhere.
Sophie Meinershagen
Prose Editor
Sophie Meinershagen is a sophomore at New York University, majoring in Dramatic Writing and minoring in Creative Writing. In high school, she published a 50,000-word middle-grade novel entitled The Fearless List, and she now works for All the Write Colors to help edit and publish children’s books. When she isn’t writing, she’s probably thrifting online or rewatching Gilmore Girls.
Ava Kobos
Prose Editor
Ava Kobos is a Sophomore from Portland, Oregon. She’s studying English and American Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her hobbies include running, cooking, and collecting postcards from restaurants. Her work has been published in Green Blotter.
Evan Barragate
Prose Editor
Evan Barragate is a junior from Cleveland, Ohio. He is majoring in English and minoring in creative writing. He loves writing fiction, reading mystery novels, running, and watching Stranger Things.
Morgan Lee
Prose Editor
Morgan Jang Lee is a senior studying English with minors in Creative Writing and Irish Literature. She is deeply saddened by the co-opting of the em dash by large language models—but will nonetheless continue to use them. She loves a good aimless walk, the pattern of sunlight through leaves, and hearing people talk about their favorite books.
Arsh Dutt
Prose Editor
Arsh Dutt is a senior majoring in Economics. He grew up in Singapore. In his spare time, he balances his love for Russian literature and alternative rock with a passion for football stretching back to before he even gained consciousness.
Kiran Rajagopal
Prose Editor
Kiran is a junior from Massachusetts studying English Literature. He hosts the radio show GLHF on WNYU and supports the winningest franchise in NBA History, the illustrious Boston Celtics among other things.
Ashley Kribs
Poetry Editor
Ashley is a senior in CAS, studying English Literature on the Creative Writing track. When she's not rewatching the same Gilmore Girls episode "Concert Interruptus" every week, she's up late writing narrative poems about Argentine culture. You can spot her out on the street with her tan Jansport backpack, cornflower blue Bose headphones on and jamming to The Marias' "Submarine."
Alissa Candal
Poetry Editor
Alissa is a senior at CAS studying English on the Creative Writing track. She loves to write poetry, play video games, and consume as much fantasy and science fiction content as possible. When she's not writing to meet deadlines, you can find her grabbing her second coffee of the day somewhere in the (very) East Village.
Jessie Sun
Poetry Editor & Socials
Jessie Sun is a senior at NYU College of Arts and Science, majoring in English and American Literature with triple minors in Integrated Design and Media (IDM), Business of Entertainment, Media, Technology (BEMT), and Creative Writing. She has a focus in contemporary racial inequality, in particular to black identity literature, and a speciality in digital and social media marketing. She loves a good ice oat latte or an espresso martini.
Aiden Peterson
Poetry Editor
Aiden is a junior at NYU studying English literature, creative writing, and French. If you ask her where she’s from, look forward to a long-winded response. Her spare time is spent cooking for her friends, reading any short story collection she can get her hands on, or curating the perfect scarf collection.
Olivia Coker
Copy Editor
Olivia Coker is a junior from Texas majoring in English Literature with a specialization in Creative Writing and a minor in Media Culture and Communication. She loves reading, writing, and constantly adding new books to her already very long TBR.
Emma Spadora
Copy Editor & Socials
Emma Spadora is a sophomore studying history, creative writing, and film. She was born and raised in New Jersey. Aside from reading and writing, she enjoys photography, binge watching TV shows and movies, going for runs, finding new coffee shops, and exploring the city with her friends.
Arianna Applebaum
Copy Editor
Arianna Applebaum is a sophomore from Westchester, majoring in English with a specialization in Creative Writing, along with Psychology. If she’s not participating in a Bobst marathon with her friends, she loves exploring hidden gems around the city, baking, collecting records, and playing Mario Kart. You can find her in the local library as she ignores the thick stacks of store bought books already on her floor.
Sherry Chen
Copy Editor
Sherry Chen is a Sophomore in CAS studying English Literature (with a concentration in Creative Writing) and Politics. Sherry is from Beijing, China, and has also lived in Upstate New York. When she's not locked in at Bobst, you can find her at a hockey game or a concert.
Abigail Chung
Copy Editor
Abigail Chung is a sophomore at CAS majoring in Biology with a minor in English & American Literature. When she's not swamped with organic chemistry homework, you can find her listening to an audiobook on her daily LIRR ride, thinking up ideas for her next blog post, or daydreaming about dessert.
Kiera Gabel
Art Editor & Socials
Kiera Gabel is a sophomore studying Film/TV at TISCH with plans to double minor in the Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology and Creative Writing. In her free time, she can be found walking the streets of New York, eating good Asian food, or procrastinating on writing her novel.
Ava Kuklis
Art Editor
Ava Kuklis is a freshman studying Film and TV at New York University where she hopes to adapt many of her creative writings. She's from Long Island and loves cramming her time with too many hobbies; crafting poems, stories, and songs on guitar as well as drawing, baking, traveling, and film photography.
Rosie Ding
Art Editor
Rosie Ding is a Chinese-American mixed-media visual artist whose work explores identity, self-perception, and the turbulent human psyche by integrating introspective excavations with visceral imagery. Bridging contemporary ceramics, sculpture, and performance, she investigates themes of fragmentation, cultural displacement, and rupture—frequently using the body as both subject and medium. Emotionally raw yet conceptually rigorous, her practice reflects Lacanian psychoanalytic thought while remaining grounded in material and emotional inquiry. Ding has exhibited internationally, including When Speed Becomes Form (Beijing, 2020), 21g (New York, 2024), and first solo When Space Empties Time (Beijing, 2025). She is currently a Junior at NYU Steinhardt pursuing a BFA in Studio Art.
Oshmi Ghosh
Socials
Oshmi Ghosh is a junior majoring in English Literature with minors in Creative Writing, History, and Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. If you want to be her friend (which you should), just buy her a chai latte and an everything bagel with scallion cream cheese.
Mei Xie
Web & Socials
Mei is a Junior student pursing an English major, specializing in Creative Writing and Business Studies minor at NYU. She loves reading and writing. Her favorite genre is Fantasy, and had published a piece called “Foreign” on the Girls Write Now Anthology. She loves anything that has to do with books/reading and am particularly intrigued by the way social media enhances one’s reading experience. Thus, she joined the West 10th Team as part of the social media team. Mei’s record is reading 11 books in 3 days.
Vee Newman
Web & Socials
Vee Newman is a senior majoring in Media, Culture, and Communications and minoring in Spanish. She loves her cat Dobi, and on an ideal day she would love to be reading, writing, or knitting with her cat and a cup of tea.
Eric Wu
Event Team
Eric is a sophomore studying Economics and Mathematics. He grew up in China and New Zealand and spent his first year studying away at NYU London. In his free time, he likes to yap endlessly about how much he misses his freshman year in Europe, romanticising budget airline economy seats, photography, and writing creative nonfiction.