Issue No. 12, 2018-19. Editor’s Notes

It is with what feels like an undeserved amount of honor that I get to introduce this year’s issue of West 10th. When I first came across its small Club Fest booth freshman year, I had no idea just how much this journal would come to define my time at NYU. As it has for many others, West 10th afforded my writing a first home, and from contributor to poetry editor to now lastly editor-in-chief, my growing involvement in the magazine has undeniably and graciously affected the growth of my undergraduate literary career.

I like to think that I have learned great writing and reading by example from our contributors and editorial board. However, even with such great teachers, I admit that curating this issue—ultimately deciding which pieces to home—was much more of a daunting task than I expected. (I shamelessly blame my brilliant predecessors for making it look so easy.)

Thankfully, West 10th has always been a collaborative effort, and what follows here are the results of truly collective and passionate decision-making by our editorial board. Together, we compiled this issue by narrowing down the pieces that we simply had to fight for, along with the ones that we didn’t need to fight over at all. In the end, we all agreed that the pieces we chose merited more eyes than ours, and we are so incredibly excited to share them with you all.

Of course, we are only able to share these stories and poems with the generous support of NYU’s Creative Writing Program. This issue quite simply could not have been completed without the guidance of Joanna Yas, who offered constant encouragement and unfaltering leadership to our team. Matthew Rohrer and Darin Strauss, our executive editors, took the time to read and select our Editors’ Awards recipients, and have always acted as wonderful advocates for West 10th. We’d also like to thank Aaron Petrovich for the time and care he always puts in our beautiful design.

A huge thank you to Ken Chen for allowing us to print one of his poems, and to Tony Tulathimutte for so honestly and playfully conversing with us about reading, writing, and everything in between. I am indebted to all my fellow editors for their many efforts and in-sights, but am especially so to managing editor Angelica Chong for making her manage more than she should have. Thank you to all of the writers and artists whose work we weren’t able to include; I hope all your pieces find a loving home. And, of course, thank you to all of those who are reading. We are most grateful for your support.

E Yeon Chang

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EDITOR IN CHIEF

E Yeon Chang

MANAGING EDITOR

Angelica Chong

POETRY EDITORS

Brittany Abou-Suleiman
Natalie Breuer
Simona Ivanova

PROSE EDITORS

Chelsea Cheng
Natalie Whalen

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS

Travis Schuhard
Henry Trinder
Eva Gu
Cosmo Halterman de Ocho

ASSISTANT PROSE EDITORS

Polina Solovyeva
Jake Goldstein
Abe Thaler
Christhalia Wiloto