Meet our Editors
David Wong
Editor-in-Chief
David Wong is a junior at OCSA in the Creative Writing conservatory. He finds an extreme interest in many different writing genres such as spoken word and short stories. He has been recognized by magazines and competitions like the Scholastic Arts and Writing contest. Other than writing, he is also a prolific oboist, participating in high-level orchestras and ensembles across the state.
Audrey Shih
Editor
Social Media Manager
Audrey Shih is a sophomore in the Creative Writing Conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts. She has received the National Silver Medal for “Orange Daydream” in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, as well as a silver key in poetry and other honorable mentions. In her free time, she loves to read sci-fi, fantasy, and historical fiction.
Bethany Kim
Editor
Bethany Kim is a junior in the Creative Writing conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts. She shares her love of literature through genres like speculative fiction and absolutely loves thriller-crime K-dramas. Her creative works have been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards. This is her first year working with the Fulcrum Review.
Aryan Sharma
Editor
Aryan Sharma is a sophomore at Orange County School of the Arts, studying creative writing. He delves into fields of argumentative and critical essay, screenwriting, and fiction, along with several others in the sector. To showcase this, he has also participated in several competitions, like the Scholastic Writing Awards and several essay competitions, often taking home a few medals as well. Outside of writing Aryan is very interested in science, participating in numerous science fairs and going to even the international level in them.
Diego Gonzales
Editor
Hello! My name is Diego Andres Gonzales and I’m a rising sophomore at the Orange County School of the Arts in the Creative Writing Conservatory. I like to write poems mostly, focusing on form and other literary devices where I try to experiment as much as I can creatively. Additionally, I also like to write short stories that focus on character psychology (and sometimes philosophy) and as of recently, playwriting.
Annie Peng
Art Design
Xinyi (Annie) Peng is a sophomore from the OCSA Design and Media conservatory. You can find some of her work on her art account @annie.how
Meet our Mentors
Marie Bong
Yale
Marie Bong is a rising senior at Yale, majoring in Cognitive Science. Marie is passionate about different fields of study can inform and enhance one another, like how psychology can enliven written worlds and how cultural studies are integral for grounding psychological study and praxis. She serves on the board of Yale's Hippo Literary and Arts Magazine as the Print Managing Editor and frequently contributes to other Yale journals, including the Herald, Accent Multilingual, and The New Journal, as an editor and writer. Marie has worked as a research assistant in psychology since sophomore year at the Affective Science and Culture Lab at Yale, researching emotion differentiation. She aspires to become a clinical psychologist who draws from her background of interdisciplinary studies and intersectional identities to inform her practice. Outside of these areas, she enjoys pursuing crafty passion projects and practicing her juggling.
Serapina Chung
USC
Serapina Chung is a student at the University of Southern California majoring in Business Administration with a minor in Entertainment Industry. Within entertainment, Serapina strives to empower community through content and explore diverse mediums of storytelling. On-campus, Serapina serves as the VP of Communications for USC’s premiere business entertainment organization, Marshall Entertainment Association (MEA) and the VP of Programming for the Korean American Leaders in Hollywood (KALH) in their student-run USC branch. Some of Serapina’s professional experiences encompass film and TV production, marketing, talent management, and creative development. She worked as a Literary Intern under the production company Atlas Entertainment (Oppenheimer, Wonder Woman, The Dark Knight), where she helped manage client scripts, casting, and films in development. Serapina is an incoming Unscripted Competition & Formats Intern at NBCUniversal for the Television & Streaming department, their diverse slate consisting of competitive shows such as The Voice, Deal or No Deal, and Top Chef.
Katherine Wong
Stanford
Katherine Wong is a student at Stanford University majoring in Symbolic Systems (Computer Science + Philosophy/Linguistics) on the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) track and minoring in Creative Writing. She is also pursuing a 5th year M.S. in Computer Science on the AI track through Stanford’s coterminal program. Katherine is passionate about the intersections of technology with other fields — such as the arts, ethics, and language. On campus, Katherine is heavily involved with the writing community and served as the Editor-in-Chief of Stanford’s only literary magazine, Leland Quarterly. Katherine has also completed a Levinthal creative writing tutorial, where she studied 1:1 under a Stegner Fellow to work on writing her debut novel. Outside of writing, Katherine is involved in the CS198 program, where she serves as a Teaching Assistant for Stanford’s introductory computer science data structures courses. In her free time, she enjoys reading/writing literary fiction and collecting funky earrings.
Erika Myong
UCSD
Erika Myong is a rising senior at the University of California, San Diego, studying political science and literature writing. As the Co-Tournament Director of UCSD’s nationally ranked Moot Court Team, she has had ample experience in legal writing/analysis and oral argument. Erika is also a staff writer for UCSD’s student-run newspaper, The UCSD Guardian, where she has published extensive reviews of books, films, and live performances. Her creative work has been featured in the UC-wide literary magazine Matchbox Magazine. Erika has just completed her position as a research assistant within UC San Diego’s Political Science Department, where she engaged in reading and summarizing prison literature to study political control within prison industries. After graduation, she plans to attend law school in hopes of pursuing a career in criminal prosecution. In her free time, she enjoys bullet journaling and reading speculative fiction novels.
Ivette Chen
Harvard
Ivette Chen is a rising junior at Harvard concentrating in neuroscience. Ivette has helped edit and proofread numerous life science research papers for The Harvard Undergraduate Association for U.S. - China Relations, specifically for the organization’s Young Scholar’s Academic Journal and China Thinks Big conference for high school students in China. Ivette is also a licensed emergency medical technician and conducts neural progenitor stem cell research at Mass General Hospital. She aspires to be a neurosurgeon in the future.