The Writing Atlas Team

Writing Atlas originally began as a side project in December 2020 when it was spun out of Plympton, Inc., with a focus on cataloging short stories. The heightened deal making in Hollywood for short stories have prompted an entire rewrite of the project to put content submission and discovery on the forefront. We’re rebuilding from the ground up with the following mission in mind: every story deserves to be read.

The humans helping us achieve this vision are...

Executive Team

		Jennifer 8. Lee
		Jenny is CEO of Plympton, a literary studio that does innovative projects in digital publishing, including this one! She produces documentaries, including The Search for General Tso and The Emoji Story 🥡. She’s also an emoji activist, whose work in this front with Emojination has been collected by the Smithsonian and honored by Fast Company. Once upon a time she was a reporter for The New York Times and authored a book called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, which was her first exposure to the publishing industry.

Past Team Members

		Ted Benson
		Ted is the founder of Steamship, a company that builds AI employees. Their first is an AI influencer marketing manager named Everpilot. He has a PhD from MIT and previously led the Machine Intelligence group at Instabase after the company acquired his startup. Ted dreams of one day writing cheesy thriller novels to keep you up at night.

		Sil Hamilton
		Sil Hamilton is researcher-in-residence at Hacks/Hackers. A digital humanities researcher at McGill University, Sil has published research at workshops and journals like SIGHUM, WNU, and the Journal of Open Humanities Data. His work exploring the limits of language models has been discussed by Wired, The Financial Times, and Le Devoir. Sil has given talks on AI and the newsroom at Nieman at Harvard; the Brown Institute at Columbia; the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; and The Knight Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

		Eric Zhou
		Eric is data 📊 steward for Plympton and Writing Atlas. If a story is in the system, there's a 95% chance Eric got it there. Eric is a software engineer at Facebook (Meta). He dreams of being Librarian of Congress 🏛 one day.

		Kiara Gomez
		Kiara is an assistant editor for Plympton. At Harvard, she studied Social Anthropology and Government. She loves speculative fiction and is currently working on a novel.

		Quentin Humphrey
		Quentin is currently a computer science major at Lafayette College (roll pards 🐆). He enjoys the national parks, hiking, rock climbing, and yummy desserts.

		Shirley Wang
		Shirley is an assistant editor for Plympton. Her story "My Dad’s Friendship with Charles Barkley" was a notable selection in The Best American Sports Writing of 2019. Shirley recently moved to Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 for love ❤️.

Literary Fellows

Biographies dated at time of participation.

Winter 2024

		Bea Phi
		Bea Phi is a senior at Stanford University studying Comparative Literature and Creative Writing.

		Danielle Sherman
		Danielle Sherman is from Phoenix, Arizona and studies creative writing as an undergraduate student of Emory University. She publishes fiction, poetry, journalism, and literary research. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, learning new languages, and making elaborate Notion pages.

		Dylan Malloy
		Dylan is a junior double majoring in playwriting and business at Emory University. Her plays have been produced in California (Los Angeles), New York, Georgia, and Colorado, as well as the U.K. Actors known for roles with Disney+, CW, Paramount+, and Amazon Prime Video have starred in productions of Dylan’s work. She is a two-time winner of the Hollywood-based Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival, and she received a designation for excellence only given once before in the company’s history. As a producer, Dylan organized Emory's Oxford New Play Festival for two seasons; during her tenure, eleven plays written and directed by Emory students received world premieres. Dylan has also received Emory’s Artistine Mann awards for best playwriting and best fiction writing by an undergraduate. Originally from Colorado, Dylan is the author of The River Cycle, a five-play series examining human connection and the climate crisis in rural Colorado. Every play in the series has been performed.

		Ella Rintala
		Ella Rintala (she/they) is studying creative writing and environmental science at Emory university. She loves poetry, fiction, and science writing. Her favorite bird is a piping plover.

		Kaylee Chan
		Kaylee Chan is an undergrad at Stanford University pursuing a B.A. in English. In fourth grade, she discovered her love of writing and has never looked back since. She loves board games, boba, and buying notebooks she'll never use.

		Klaire Mason
		Klaire Mason is a double major in history and creative writing at Emory University. As an avid world traveler who has visited 41 countries, she has applied her experience by writing 4 historical fiction children's books and establishing an Open-Mic at Emory to help celebrate the writing community.

		Cate Burtner
		Cate Burtner is a junior at Stanford University studying English literature. She greatly enjoys reading, writing, and anything else to do with the written word. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, writing for the Stanford Daily, and making art.

		Chloe Chen
		Chloe is a junior at Emory University studying Business Administration and English. On campus, she spends her time pretending to be a fake attorney on the mock trial team, looking for good books by Asian American authors, and drinking far too much coffee.

		Kate Li
		Kate Li is currently an undergraduate at Stanford University, studying English and Economics. On campus, Kate is involved in digital humanities research with Stanford's Literary Lab and works as a writing tutor at the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. Her academic interests include queer of color critique, contemporary feminist literature, and postmodernist literary constructions of identity. Outside of (literary) reading and writing, she has worked on development policy at the World Bank and researched immigration policy at school.

		Palmer Strubhar
		Palmer Strubhar is a junior at Emory University majoring in Creative Writing with a Rhetoric minor. She spends her time editing undergraduate articles for Studybreaks, writing satirical articles for The Emory Spoke, and obsessively watching Vanity Fair lie detector videos. She dreams of one day working for a publishing house or entering the world of screenwriting.

		Sabrina Marvil
		Sabrina Marvil is a third-year student at Emory University. She grew up on a farm in Virginia where there was little else to do besides read. Her love of reading is fostered by her studies at Emory where she majors in Latin and Philosophy.

		Vicki Xu
		Vicki Xu is a writer and programmer from the San Francisco Bay Area. At Harvard, she studied computer science and math. She wrote nonfiction for the Harvard Advocate, a campus art and literary magazine. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. She enjoys cozy mornings and a good pastry.

		Salina Santoya
		Salina Santoya is currently a student at Emory University, pursuing a major in English and a minor in Political Science. On campus, she is involved in QuestFAM, FGLI, and works at her campus bookstore. She has also recently joined the writing team on the Emory Wheel, her school’s newspaper.

		Bria Charlton
		Bria Charlton (she/her) is a current student at Howard University majoring in English and minoring in Media, Journalism, and Film. She’s currently involved in research for her undergraduate honors thesis about the validity of W.E.B. DuBois’s theory of second sight and Black authors depiction of the whiteness.

		Gideon Prempeh
		Gideon is a junior at Howard University majoring in English with a minor in communications. Some of his favorite hobbies include writing, working out, and modeling!

		Grace Castle Rossi
		Castle Rossi is a senior at Emory University studying English and business. As a kid, she probably listened to too much Taylor Swift; now, she writes melodramatic poetry, regularly rewatches the Phoebe Waller-Bridge cinematic universe, and plays.

		Thomas Harris
		Thomas Studies evolutionary biology at Harvard, focusing on genetics. He was born and raised in New York and loves hiking, surfing, and swimming. His favorite tree is a Red Maple.

		Hannah Oo
		Hannah Oo, from southwest Michigan, is a senior at Stanford majoring in Biology and minoring in Creative Writing and Spanish, on the Pre-Medicine track. She loves lab research along with health equity and her Myanmar heritage. In her free time, she enjoys figure skating, hiking, listening to music, writing poetry, and meeting new people.

		Erin Devine
		Erin Devine is a junior and Media and Entertainment Pathways scholar at Emory University from Cincinnati, Ohio, double majoring in Creative Writing and Film & Media Studies. She is enthralled by the creative process and incredibly passionate about telling stories through various forms of media and entertainment. Outside of her academics, she writes for the Emory Wheel newspaper, acts in student theatre productions, dances ballet and jazz, and fences with Emory’s club fencing team. In her free time, she loves watching Greta Gerwig films, reading books, writing fiction, screenwriting, and playing with her husky!

		Lydia Wang
		Lydia Wang is someone who loves stories so much, she decided to create her own. She is the Director of Chapters for The Young Writers Initiative, and her pieces have been recognized by Scholastic Art & Writing, Ice Lolly, among others. When not starting her eleventh story-that-will-never-be-finished, Lydia can be found tracing shapes into the clouds.

Summer 2022

		Estevan Samayoa
		Estevan is attending Emory University, studying creative writing and sociology. He has a passion for community organizing and social justice, and hopes to live a well-rounded life that includes both his love of literature as well as his dedication to helping other humans.

		Madi Adkins
		Madi Adkins is a junior at Emory University, pursuing a BA in English with a minor in Art History. She is passionate about mental health advocacy, loves true crime and plant-based cooking.

		Zone Li
		I am a senior at Emory. I major in data science with a focus in neuroscience and behavioral biology. I was born in Hongkong. I love the Harry Potter books.

		China Dennington
		China is a senior at Emory university studying English & history. Devoting herself to storytelling from a young age, she delights in consuming, learning about, and creating media. When writing her own fiction, she loves to infuse her settings with magic and mystery. She believes that fantasy can be an excellent framework for exploring how grief, love, and loss make us human.

		Hannah Book
		Hannah is a sophomore at Emory University where she is pursuing a double major in English and Political Science. In her spare time she tutors high school students, binge watches period pieces, and bakes brownies--Duncan Hines, of course! She aspires to one day know what she will do after college.

		Emma Dollar
		Emma Dollar is a junior at Emory University studying English & Creative Writing and International Studies. She loves backpacking, baking banana bread, and her dogs, and she is forever in search of the best soup dumplings in the world.

		Sheena Holt
		Sheena Holt is an undergrad creative writing student at Emory University. A writer of fiction and non-fiction, she is fascinated by stories of religion and place. She is currently trying out running, rock-climbing, and roller-skating to see about taking on one or more as a HobbyTM️. She remains undecided as to the sports’ fates.

		Megan Freeman
		Megan Freeman is a senior at Emory University studying English and Environmental Science. She loves making overly specific playlists, writing about climate fiction, and constantly checking the weather forecast.

		Grace Donahue
		Grace is a senior at Emory University studying English and Environmental Science. Grace has lived in the U.K, Canada, Chile, and the U.S, but now calls Boulder, CO home. Their perfect Sunday morning includes an episode of The Writer's Voice and a cup of Trader Joe's coffee.

		Amy Xia
		Amy is a Junior at Emory University studying English & Creative Writing and Psychology. She's a Boston native who loves Wong Kar-Wai movies and working on creative projects about mental health and AAPI identity. She will be your hype-woman and always know which songs to aux.

		Chase Wolfsohn
		Chase is pursuing his B.A. in English Creative Writing and Religion at Emory University. He is interested in writing short stories, screenplays, and poetry. He has a passion for coffee, plants, and music.

		Chloe Wegrzynowicz
		Chloe Wegrzynowicz (she/her) is a junior at Emory University studying English & Creative Writing, with a minor in religion on the pre-medical track. She aspires to become a hybrid doctor-writer. She dreams of publishing a collection of poetry and authoring a cheesy romance novel and soap opera. Though her favorite genre is likely horror, she feels that soap operas and/or Telenovelas likely have some of the best story arcs. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family and cat, Sassy.

		Dylan Malloy
		Dylan is a rising sophomore double majoring in playwriting and business at Emory University (with a concentration in arts management within the business school). As an award-winning playwright, she has had multiple plays produced since March 2021 and looks forward to making her Los Angeles playwriting debut in August 2022, when one of her plays is set to be produced by The Blank Theatre in Hollywood through the company's Young Playwrights Festival. She is currently at work on her debut novel.

		Eileen Hernandez
		Eileen Hernandez is an undergraduate student at Emory University pursuing a B.A. in English. She is passionate about diverse forms of storytelling. After graduation, she plans to overcome her existential crisis, free sea animals from captivity, and bring One Direction back together.

		Elizabeth Fulton
		Elizabeth is a sophomore at Oxford College of Emory University who plans to double major in Creative Writing and Film and Media Management. On campus, she is the president of the Oxford Film Club. Aside from the obvious hobbies associated with her academic interests, she enjoys listening to music and playing the piano. She is passionate about writing (and even more passionate about romantic comedies).

		Ellie Purinton
		Ellie Purinton is a rising junior at Emory University, where she is an English and Creative Writing major and a Global Health minor. When she is not reading or writing, you can find Ellie scaring herself by watching true crime shows and horror movies at night.

		Erin Li
		Erin is currently a rising sophomore at Emory University’s Oxford campus. She is pursuing a double major in creative writing and biology and is a Writing Atlas intern at Plympton. Erin loves reading, writing, and drawing, but none of those things compare to how much she loves her dog Mango.

		Hannah Chang
		Hannah Chang is currently studying English and Psychology at Emory University. She spent two years at Oxford College getting her Associates Degree and exploring new interests in the literary world--her current favorites are works by Milton and Ishiguro. When she's not delving into Shakespearean plays, Hannah can be found writing poetry, learning a new instrument, or trying to recreate a recipe she found on Pinterest.

		Lily Sayre
		Lily Sayre is pursuing her BA in Creative Writing at Emory University. Her background as a freelance developmental manuscript editor, published author, and fiction writing instructor has led her to a love of stories both as works of creativity and recognizable, malleable structures. When she isn't lost in a book, she enjoys painting watercolors, dancing, and forcing her friends to eat her bizarre ramen creations.

		Sarah Corasanti
		Sarah Corasanti is a rising senior at Emory University, majoring in English. When she is not writing her vampires vs. ghosts novel or drawing her Greek Gods comic book, she enjoys hiking, playing tennis, watching crime shows, and cuddling with her dog, Goober.

		Sarah Davis
		Sarah Davis is a junior at Emory University, majoring in English and Politics, Philosophy, and Law. She is a managing editor at her college paper and has previously served as an editorial intern in several newsrooms.

		Madeline Gordon
		Born in the Red Hills of South Georgia and raised up on family mythologies and Deep South religion, Madeline Gordon has been a storyteller since birth. At Emory, Madeline studies Religion and Creative Writing, and seeks to create work that highlights the grit and beauty of the people and landscape they hail from.

		Christopher Labaza
		Christopher Labaza is a junior from Emory University, where he studies creative writing and music. On campus, he is a satirist for the Emory Spoke, an editorial cartoonist for the Emory Wheel, and a musician with the Emory Wind Ensemble.

		Grace Donahue
		Grace is a senior at Emory University studying English and environmental science. When she's not in a canoe or on a farm, she loves hanging out with her three cats Fred, George, and Pepper.

		Clara Bonnlander
		Clara Bonnlander is a senior at Emory University, majoring in English and minoring in Linguistics, with interests in literary theory, language, and poetry writing. She is from Pensacola, Florida and currently lives in a tiny studio apartment in Atlanta, Georgia with her rescue cat Petey.

Summer 2021

		Estevan Samayoa
		Estevan is attending Emory University, studying creative writing and sociology. He has a passion for community organizing and social justice, and hopes to live a well-rounded life that includes both his love of literature as well as his dedication to helping other humans.

		Grace Donahue
		Grace is a senior at Emory University studying English and environmental science. When she's not in a canoe or on a farm, she loves hanging out with her three cats Fred, George, and Pepper.

		Ananya Mohan
		Ananya (she / her) is an undergraduate at Emory University who is dreading the day she has to declare her major - but it's (probably) going to be something English or Classics related. In her free time, she enjoys writing and making Twitter bots.

		Ben Thomas
		Ben Thomas is a sophomore at Emory University, where he studies comparative literature and political science. He loves Tolstoy, conflict studies, rewatching The West Wing, and dipping breakfast foods in coffee.

		Clara Bonnlander
		Clara Bonnlander is a senior at Emory University, majoring in English and minoring in Linguistics, with interests in literary theory, language, and poetry writing. She is from Pensacola, Florida and currently lives in a tiny studio apartment in Atlanta, Georgia with her rescue cat Petey.

		Noreen Ocampo
		Noreen Ocampo is an undergraduate at Emory University, where she double majors in English and Film and Media Studies. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Taco Bell Quarterly, Hobart, and HAD, among others, and she is also a blog co-editor for COUNTERCLOCK. She's currently learning the electric guitar!

		Julie Park
		Julie Park is a senior majoring in English at Emory University. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal and the Emory Journal of Asian Studies.

		Christopher Labaza
		Christopher Labaza is a junior from Emory University, where he studies creative writing and music. On campus, he is a satirist for the Emory Spoke, an editorial cartoonist for the Emory Wheel, and a musician with the Emory Wind Ensemble.

		Sophia Bereaud
		Sophia is a Boston native studying Creative Writing and Anthropology at Emory University. She is a recipient of the Woodruff Dean's Achievement Scholarship, an avid poetry reader and writer, and a lover of the ocean.

		Elizabeth Hsieh
		Elizabeth is a junior at Emory University majoring in English. She enjoys reading a diverse range of literature and is always reading too many books at once.

		Maggie Connolly
		Maggie Connolly is a recent graduate of Emory University, where she received her BA in English & Creative Writing and Spanish. During her senior year of undergrad, Maggie wrote a thesis which focused on feminist theories of embodiment and Irish poetry. Maggie plans to continue her education at Emory next academic year as a part of Laney Graduate School, where she will pursue her MA in English. Maggie's hobbies include hiking, reading, writing poetry, drinking boba and matcha, and staying as busy as possible!

		RW Poole II
		RW is a third year student at Emory University double majoring in Comparative Literature and African American Studies. RW enjoys reading, the Golden Girls, and community organizing.

		Vince Orozco
		Vince Golden Orozco is a rising sophomore at Emory University. He plans to major in English and minor in Philosophy. His main interests are reading (his favorite book is Moby-Dick), writing (poetry mainly), and watching movies (his top 3 are Easy Rider, Hot Fuzz, and Mulholland Drive). He loves the music of Charles Bradley and enjoys a nice cup of blueberry hibiscus tea.

		Grady Trexler
		Grady Trexler is an undergraduate student at Princeton University studying linguistics and philosophy. He is from Midlothian, Virginia. He currently uses a purple and white toothbrush.

		Malia Maxwell
		Malia Maxwell is currently pursuing a B.A. in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing from Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, WA, her top three favorite trees (in no particular order) are: Douglas firs, Alaskan yellow cedars, and Western red cedars.

		Jared Klegar
		Jared is a first-year at Stanford, where he is studying sociology, creative writing, and computer science. A former Broadway performer and an avid literature fan, he is passionate about all forms of storytelling.

		Ngan Chiem
		Ngan is a sophomore at Princeton University and an aspiring fantasy novelist.

		Almog Aybar
		Almog is a recent graduate of Stanford University, where she majored in English and was involved in a cappella and theater. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in music business from Berklee College of Music. In her free time, she enjoys discussing great literature and making music in her home studio.

		Truelian Lee
		One day in third grade, Truelian Lee borrowed 70 hefty books at once, the bags so heavy that she ended up using a shopping cart to wheel all the teetering stacks out. Through the years, she has carried her passion for literature with her, and she has fond memories of spending hours upon hours at her local library (pre-pandemic). Truelian is currently a pre-medical student at Harvard College pursuing a double major in Chemistry and English, and she is interested in exploring the medical humanities.

		Jessica Seng
		Jessica Seng, daughter of former refugees, is a Cambodian American writer from Tucson, Arizona. She recently graduated with honors from Stanford University where she majored in Science, Technology, and Society and minored in creative writing. She was also a recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize and has received a scholarship to study under Meng Jin at The Ruby SF. Jessica currently works in Late Night Television and is also at work on her first novel.

		Kendall McKinnon
		Kendall McKinnon is a student at The Savannah College of Art and Design. She will graduate with her Writing BFA in the spring of 2021. She joined Plympton in May 2020 and has worked on projects such as Recovering the Classics and Writing Atlas.

		Sara Komatsu
		Sara is a sophomore at Harvard studying English with a secondary in Film Studies. Besides being a bookworm, she’s a ballerina currently training in Philadelphia. Sara writes for the Harvard Crimson, which is how she met Jenny! She dreams of writing for television someday, and directing ballet films like Ezra Hurwitz.

		Annie Zheng
		Annie Zheng (she/her) is 22, freshly out of Stanford University, pretty lost, and is considering a graduate degree in ethnic studies or sociology. She loves singing and dancing. She hopes you are having a nice day. Her twitter is @mashmall0w515 and her dog's Instagram is @sunny.the.shih.tzu. Give her a follow!

		Tania Fordwalker
		Tania Fordwalker hails from a small island at the end of the world. Her prizewinning short fiction has been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, Andromeda Spaceways and Reckoning, and she holds a Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing, a B Arts Honours in Creative Writing, with a PhD underway. Part of the Clarion West 20/22 'ghost year', she is looking forward to this bloody plague being knocked on the head so she can get out into the world again.

		Kaitlyn Choe
		Kaitlyn Choe (she/her) is a junior at Stanford majoring in Human Biology and minoring in Creative Writing. She's passionate about making stories accessible at all stages of the life cycle and is excited to be contributing to the Writing Atlas community!

		Sawyer Lucas-Griffin
		Sawyer Lucas-Griffin grew up and currently lives in Wyoming, where she tries her best to avoid moose attacks. She is also an undergraduate at Stanford University studying Human Biology and creative writing.

		Issay Matsumoto
		Issay Matsumoto is an aspiring teacher currently based near Boston. He loves critical histories, Chinatowns, youth activism, and Asian dramas.

		Angie Lee
		Angie Lee is a senior at Stanford University majoring in English and minoring in Human Biology. She loves to read, write, eat spicy tuna rolls, and admire other people's dogs.

		Marie Ungar
		Marie Ungar studies English at Harvard University, where she's served as the poetry editor of the Harvard Advocate and an arts writer for the Harvard Crimson. She's written for DigBoston and Charlottesville Tomorrow. She really likes string cheese. You can follow her on Twitter @mreeeungr.

		Julie Plummer
		Julie Plummer is a recent graduate of Stanford University, where she majored in English with a psychology minor. She is currently pursuing an MFA in nonfiction creative writing from Pacific University. A California Bay Area native, Julie is equally in love with the Pacific coastline and the rugged Sierra Nevada ridge lines.

		Veronica Ordway
		Veronica Ordway is a graduate of Emerson College with a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. Along with working for Plympton, she is a writer, editor, and performance artist. Her performance art has been exhibited in Boston and Los Angeles, and her fiction has been published in the United States and Europe.

		Izzy Ampil
		Izzy Ampil is a senior at Stanford University, where she studies literature and creative writing. She loves cows, stone fruit, running around barefoot, her rickety old car, and (for the most part) working on her novel.

		Erin Stoodley
		Erin Stoodley is an artist and poet currently residing in Chicago. She is also a recent graduate of Stanford University, where she studied English and creative writing. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and can be found in The Adroit Journal and Vox Viola. When she is not reading, Erin enjoys crocheting, printmaking, and playing in the snow.

		Maliya Ellis
		Maliya Ellis is a sophomore at Harvard concentrating in English with a secondary in Energy & Environment. On campus, she writes for Fifteen Minutes, the weekly magazine of the Crimson, and is passionate about telling stories. She hopes to someday become a magazine journalist or environmental lawyer. She also loves long distance running, choral music, green tea, and Pillowpets (pictured above).

		Lauren Fadiman
		Lauren Fadiman is a senior at Harvard College where she studies Folklore & Mythology and Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality.

		Caroline Tew
		Caroline Tew graduated from Harvard University in 2020, where she studied English and economics. She was books executive of the Harvard Crimson for two years and has interned at Harvard Review, Entertainment Weekly, and the Massie and McQuilkin Literary Agency. She will be attending the Columbia Publishing Course next year.

		Vivian Wong
		Vivian Wong is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in English Literature and Economics with an interest in content strategy.

		Sal Kang
		Sal Kang is a professional sluggard and occasional writer who spends most of her free time sleeping and reading Anne Carson. She is studying lots of different things at Princeton University before she figures out what she really wants to do in life. She tweets at @nini_kang.

		Christina MacIntosh
		Christina MacIntosh is an off-cycle junior at Stanford majoring in English with a Creative Writing emphasis and minoring in Earth Systems. When she is not reading or surreptitiously recording eavesdropped conversations in her notes, she enjoys backpacking, running long distances, waking up too early to go on adventures, and other kinds of not-fun fun.