2020-2021 Editorial Board

Editors-in-chief

Rachel Lu is a Chinese American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Managing Editor at COUNTERCLOCK Journal, and the co-founder of Counterclock Arts Collective, an interdisciplinary summer fellowship program. She is a two-time recipient of both the George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Poetry and the Kellogg Essay Prize. As a 2021 Levitt Research Winter Fellow, Rachel's researched 19th-century Gothic fiction and queer theory in order to understand the discursive, normalizing techniques that construct our contemporary understanding of homosexuality. Over the summer, Rachel researched the history of Asian Americans at Hamilton. An impenitent Goodreads addict, she will, perhaps too enthusiastically, proselytize its benefits to anyone within a five-mile radius of her.

Eva is a junior majoring in Creative Writing and double-minoring in Art and Classical Studies. From music to painting to poetry, she's always been an artist at heart, although writing is her favorite outlet. If she isn’t writing (which she should be doing more often), she is thinking about ghosts, civilizational collapse, or, most importantly, what she should cook for dinner.

Poetry Board

Poetry Board Head Editor, Bella Moses ‘23

Bella Moses is a sophomore at Hamilton College currently pursuing a BA in creative writing. She is the recipient of the The Adam Gordon Poetry Prize for First-Year Students. Her recent work can be found in The Oakland Arts Review and Right Hand Pointing. Life loves include sunlit windows, Virginia Woolf, and walking uphill.

Madison Lazenby is a sophomore at Hamilton College, where she studies Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies. She frequently holds a megaphone for her college’s hub of the Sunrise Movement. She is a graduate of the UVA Young Writers Workshop and has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the 1455 Literary Festival. Her opinionated work can be found in the Hamilton College Monitor and on her Instagram and Twitter under @mad_mads_maddie.

Abigail Moone is an artist and student from Idaho studying Women’s and Gender Studies and French at Hamilton College. She has written poetry all her life, and believes that art is fundamental to the human experience. She is particularly interested in narratives around queerness and identity, and believes in the celebration of joy and gratitude. Besides Red Weather, Abigail is involved with a number of other campus organizations, and loves rock climbing, experimental cooking, and sitting in the grass.

Julianna McCann is a senior at Hamilton College, where she is double majoring in Creative Writing and Chinese. She has been writing poetry since she learned the alphabet and was first published in a collection of children’s work at ten years old. She hopes to one day become a professor of English literature and to never stop learning.

Lucy Seward is a first year student at Hamilton from Atlanta. She’s not yet positive what she wants to study but will probably end up a Lit or Art History major. She loves to read and write and draw and be outside. She also loves music and critiquing/editing writing. In high school she won several Scholastic Awards for her artwork, and although she doesn't have much time for it these days, she's always loved to write stories and poems of her own.

Calyn Clare Liss is a junior at Hamilton College, majoring in Creative Writing and Classical Languages. She started writing in the first grade and has not stopped since, although her true literary passion lies with editing the work of others. In both prose and poetry, she most appreciates simple yet beautiful language. When not agonizing over translation errors, misused homophones, and the linguistic study of pragmatics, she tends to her five pet frogs and listens (perhaps excessively) to Fleetwood Mac.

Brenne is a sophomore creative writing major from Los Angeles. She's enjoyed reading and writing poetry since middle school and is considering working on a literary magazine as her career, as she's loved her four semesters on Red Weather's poetry board. Brenne's favorite poet is Anne Carson, and her favorite word right now is 'blimp'.

Samantha Chen is a poet and undergraduate student at Hamilton College, where she studies psychology and creative writing. Her work has appeared in Caustic Frolic, Matchbox Magazine, and Red Wheelbarrow. When she’s not thinking about the tenuous relationship between space & body, extraterrestrials & tenderness, childhood trauma & burning at the stake, she paints, runs, and does yoga.

Sam is a massive fan of beat poetry and in his spare time loves to fix bikes.

Others:

Haruna Shimizu ‘21
Scout Winer ‘24

Prose Board

Prose Board Head Editor, Randy Tristant ‘22

Randy is writer and illustrator and an undergraduate student at Hamilton College, where she is majoring in Creative Writing and Cinema & Media Studies. She has written, illustrated, edited, and self-published her two graphic novels, A Sleep and Unsteady, as a part of a 2019 Emerson Summer Grant and a 2020 Kirkland Summer Grant. In her writing, she focuses mostly on the anatomy mental illness and the paths to recovery. In her free time, she enjoys doing needlepoint, figure skating, and watching avant-garde films.

Maja Domagała is a Polish-American writer and undergraduate student at Hamilton College, where she plans to double major in Creative Writing and Psychology. Most of her writing focuses on immigration, mental health, and LGBTQ+ themes, and conveys her passion for more proper representation in media. When she is not drafting books, short stories, and poems, she can most often be found spending time with her loved ones or ordering an iced vanilla latte from Opus.

Katherine Kim is a junior from New Jersey studying Creative Writing and Cinema and Media Studies. She enjoys reading works that center around revolution, LGBT+ themes, and intersectionality. She also writes for The Spectator and Signature Style, and is on the g-board for Feminists of Color Collective. When she isn't writing and editing, she likes to dance and to watch films, particularly ones made by Chantal Akerman and Park Chan-wook.

Others:

Julia Radomisli ‘24

Gregory Duke is a junior from New Jersey majoring in Literature and German Studies. Having, as a child, hated everything ever written, he believes his prior critical nature and his current love of writing provide him with the prerequisite experience to help find some of the most exciting undergraduate voices at Hamilton.

Jessica Frantzen is a freshman from Pennsylvania hoping to major in Psychology and Japanese. A member of the debate club eboard and editorially-minded, Jessica is fond of stories with a fantastical twist and those that place emphasis on mental health and LGBT+ themes. In her free time, when not dreaming up new characters, Jessica enjoys playing tabletop and video games and desperately trying to save her new succulent.

Hannah is a sophomore studying Creative Writing and Linguistics. She enjoys stories that focus on promoting diversity and open discussions of mental health issues. In addition to writing and editing, she enjoys dancing, crocheting, and spending time with her family and friends.

Avery Cook is a senior in the creative writing major at Hamilton College, where she writes short stories in the surrealist, slice-of-life realm. Her critical work appears in Heavy Feather Review and her archival work in the American Communal Societies Quarterly.

Elise Wilson is a junior from Connecticut studying Philosophy. She is publicity chair for the Mock Trial and is currently working remotely for a law firm. She is also on the e-board for The Continental and Suture. In her free time, Elise loves to watch poorly written Christmas movies.

Emma Swan is a sophomore Literature major from Parsippany, New Jersey. She is treasurer of the Hamilton College Poetry Slam Club and a tutor at the Nesbitt-Johnson Writing Center. She has folded several hundred paper cranes.

Art Board

Art Board Head Editor, Emma Berry ‘22

Emma is a junior at Hamilton College with a love for making art, particularly drawing and painting. She has supported young writers and artists during summer jobs and is currently a docent at the Wellin Museum. Along with art, she loves writing, studying Chinese, and cats in no particular order.

Charlie Guterman is an artist and poet at Hamilton College. Her work has been published and recognized in the Battering Ram Literary Journal, on the Young Poets Network, by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and by the Adam Gordon Poetry Prize for First Year Students. When not making art, Charlie enjoys climbing rocks and watching clouds.

Eliza Roberts is a freshman at Hamilton College where she would love to major in Creative Writing or History. She finds inspiration in both visual arts and writing, and hopes to continue both throughout her life. In high school, she received a National Scholastic Award for art, and contributed both writing and art for the Literary Arts Magazine. She finds inspiration in both visual arts and writing, and hopes to continue both throughout her life. Aside from those, she loves cuddling with her corgi, Puck, baking and ice skating!

Taicheng Jin is a Junior studying Government and Economics. During his free time, he sails, skis, swims, and plays squash. He enjoys filmmaking and photography. And his work has been selected by NYC Independent Film Festival.

Others:

Sam Guindon ‘21
Lynn Kim ‘21
Jesse Gross ‘22
Eva Nolan ‘22
Alaina McKeen ‘24
Eliza Plante ‘24