Our Team
Meet the Editors
Jua Kim
Editor in Chief
She/Her
Jua Kim is a woman of few words.
Rebecca Yang
Editor in Chief
She/Her
Rebecca has a burning passion for writing. Literally. Once, she burned her finger while cooking because she was thinking of The Blackthorn Key. Or the time she nearly sliced her finger open while cutting a mango (which, subsequently, led to a poem titled Mango). But besides physical pain and poetry, she partakes in the practice of extensive alliteration, assonance, and occasionally, performance. Other facts about her include speaking four languages (English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Taiwanese!), knitting scarfs for unsuspecting victims nearby, and playing little sonatinas on the piano.
Audrey Shih
Editor in Chief
She/Her
Audrey Shih is part-caffeine, part mermaid, and entirely much too obsessed with dissecting Hozier lyrics. As an avid reader and writer of all things memoir, fantasy/sci-fi, and poetry, she spends her free time watching whale documentaries, trying very hard to understand French podcasts, and scribbling ideas on random surfaces. That is, if she's not thinking of ways her characters can survive a totally-important-and-very-imaginary LitRPG integration apocalypse. Audrey insists that anything and everything can become a poem, if one puts their mind to it. Delightful aromas in a coffee shop? Bad reception contorting an argument on the phone? Water droplets on a blank piece of paper? Poetry. Now, will a piece of wet and blank paper be the greatest poem to ever poem? Probably not, but it still counts as something.
Sarina Marzbani
Senior Editor
She/Her
Watching The Brady Bunch by day and The Brady Bunch Movie by night, Sarina is a senior in creative writing with a passion for pieces that explore the human experience and emotions. She finds inspiration in almost everything, from conversations with friends to strolls through Costco, all of which end up in her notebook. You’ll usually find her reading a coming-of-age piece, binge-watching TED talks or 2000s/2010s comedies, writing (what she finds to be) the funniest Letterboxd reviews about those comedies, listening to one of her 205+ playlists, or trying new foods from (you guessed it) Costco. One way or another, it always finds its way back into her notebook.
Lukas Rau
Senior Editor
He/Him
Lukas Rau is a senior in the creative writing conservatory at Ocsa. Located in Orange County, he lives with his parents, sister, and a small furry monster that loves belly rubs. You'll often find him listening to music, whether that be whilst writing, socializing, working, or during class. He has a wide array of hobbies, including baseball, music production, hiking, reading history textbooks, scrolling through brainrot, urban exploring, and- (of course) writing. If you ever see Lukas in the wild, ask him for a song recommendation.
Victoria Baek
Senior Editor
She/Her
Five of Victoria's favorite things in life, in no particular order:
1. I've Seen It - Olivia Dean
2. She enjoys performance poetry, but remains loyal to page poetry. She is (excessively) fascinated by letter chiasmus, IPA, and going back to a page in a poetry book and rereading slowly
3. Pilates and working out, whether she is taking a class, teaching one, or going to the gym whenever she needs a break from studying
4. Learning about anatomy and queuing up facts to say at relevant times, exactly like how she listens to music (no playlists, just organizing her queue every time)
5. Her retirement plan at 70: finally winding down after spending a productive period of being an adult, owning a bakery with a flower shop next to it, and being a professor who gives great advice like her favorite book Tuesdays with Morrie
Diego Gonzales
Senior Editor
He/Him
Perhaps if you find yourself outside his bedroom window, you'll catch a glimpse of Diego sitting alone at his desk surrounded by books he hasn't finished, and diagrams of ideas that don't make any sense (yet). If he still hasn't noticed you looking by now, he's likely staring at his computer screen in meaningful contemplation. When he's not at his desk, he's probably playing another RPG, listening to Mahler, or sitting in a Broadway theatre. If he hasn't mentioned his interests to you yet, you'll probably want to preface in advance by reading a bit of Freud, Lacan, Hegel—or something about Ulysses S. Grant (it'll save an extra 30 minutes of your time later). After all, as he might say, one cannot discuss anything without first understanding its philosophical basis, the minutiae that exists in all subjective disciplines. But of course, it could all be another means for him to change the subject at a moment's notice. Now, if he still hasn't noticed you by now, he's probably trying to read your submission. Indeed, great things take time—and they contain multitudes—and are the things with feathers—and so on, so you ought to come back later
Rhea Sreedhar
Junior Editor
She/Her
An avid reader, writer, and connoisseur of evocative literature, Rhea is a junior in Creative Writing who has a habit of opening a blank document to write about whatever happened to cross her mind that morning, then filing it away in a Google Drive folder appropriately titled “Miscellaneous”. When she’s not deep-diving into decades-old author interviews or chasing some new piece of inspiration, you can find her binge-watching horror game playthroughs, taking selfies, or scarfing down her favorite food: Trader Joe’s mac and cheese. At the end of the day, Rhea will always find comfort in stories, snacks, and dreaming about the husky she swears she’ll own someday.
Josiah Bonilla
Junior Editor
He/Him
Josiah emerged from obscurity and niche-ness to write this bio. He is more frequently known as Joey, and even more frequently known as awesome. Joey listens to lots of music and watches lots of movies, and he dreams of making great ones of his own someday. He is a junior studying creative writing at OCSA, but if you're looking to encounter him in the wild, I'd say the best places to start are dog-friendly beaches, your local Planet Fitness, or the Frida Cinema. If all of these fail, he is likely somewhere pondering one of his many nuanced fascinations and does not want to be found. He sinks back into oblivion with this message: all things are art and all people are angels. Stay cool.
Kate Ha
Junior Editor
She/Her
Kate is a 2AM type of writer. Her best ideas float into her head while she blasts Taylor Swift and Chopin, a hot cappuccino in hand. She gets way too invested in fictional characters and likes to read with her Pencil Palm Pal. Unable to decide on an aesthetic, she flits between dark academia tragedies and sunny beach romcoms. You can count on her to have at least one book and one writing notebook in her backpack at all times, even during AP and finals season.
Natalia Gustin
Junior Editor
She/Her
Natalia likes everything. Mostly. A few exceptions to that rule include loud notifications, wet socks, and Grammarly (despaite the fakt she canot spel weethout it). Nonetheless, it is for this reason that she cannot figure out which genre to stick to when writing: poetry, historical fiction, nonfiction, dystopia? How about all of the above? Other than that, she loves oatmeal raisin cookies, watching nature documentaries, scouting for random facts, and all the other hobbies of a typical retiree.
Stella Hahm
Junior Editor
She/Her
Stella is a junior in Creative Writing. She loves eating froyo while writing poems and short stories. Some of her favorite things to do are spending time with friends and family, going to concerts, and reading.
About Us
Inkblot is the Orange County School of the Arts' award-winning literary magazine. Staffed by Creative Writing, Digital Media, and Visual Arts students and overseen by the Director of Creative Writing, Josh Wood, we produce a volume of the publication annually and review submissions of writing, visual art, photography, and music compositions throughout the school year.