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the blueshift journal
blueshift / ˈblo͞oˌSHift / noun
the displacement of the spectrum to shorter wavelengths in the light coming from distant celestial objects moving toward the observer.
Meet the Writers & Artists
the winners
Emily Ling is from Greenwood, South Carolina, and is currently a high school senior at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Her poetry has appeared in Litmus and Pamplemousse. In the Fall, Emily plans to attend The New School—Eugene Lang.
Steffan Triplett is an MFA candidate and instructor at the University of Pittsburgh where he is an editor for the literary magazine Hot Metal Bridge. His work appears or is forthcoming in BOAAT, Essay Daily, Wildness, The Shade Journal, Foundry, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where he was a John B. Ervin scholar. Steffan is a 2017 fellow for Callaloo and Lambda Literary, and is a VONA/Voices alum.
the runners up
Edil Hassan is a Somali-American poet and fiction writer. Her writing has appeared in The Coalition Zine and Asymptote. Hassan is interested in how poetry can give word to stories lost by time, generation, and water.
Tiffany Austin is originally from Missouri. She currently teaches rhetorical and creative writing at the University of The Bahamas while researching African Diaspora studies, including African American, Caribbean, Afro-Latino(a) and African literature. She has published poetry in African American Review, Callaloo, Obsidian, pluck!, Valley Voices, and Sycorax’s Daughters, a speculative literature anthology, along with a photo essay “A South in Sound” in TriQuarterly. Austin previously received a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, was awarded an artist fellowship grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, and most recently was selected as a fellow at the Kimbilio Writing Retreat.
Elisa Luna-Ady is a soft-eyed Chicana from California. She is the co-founder and managing editor of Kerosene Magazine. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, Spy Kids Review, Synaesthesia, and elsewhere. She's a designated California Arts Scholar, a 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Silver Medalist, and a 2017 Best New Poets nominee.
Amber Taylor is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her work has been published in Rigorous, Rogue Agent Journal, and Lipstick Party Magazine. She is also an angry black feminist in Columbus, Ohio.
the artists
Jordan Thompkins is a 19 year old photographer, and college student, living in Atlanta Georgia. Jordan has been previously featured in The Blueshift Journal and has also done work for DJ Kash of the popular Atlanta radio station, V103. Jordan can be found doing freelance photography in the Atlanta area and can be contacted at jay.thompkins365@gmail.com.
Diana Chao is an 18-year-old artist-scientist karaoke-fu champion with a passion for black sesame ice cream. Her fine art photography illuminates lost stories in fantastical worlds fused with Asian and classical influences drawing upon her Chinese-American heritage. Her work has been featured by Vogue Italia, Adobe, Redbubble, Pictoplasma, and exhibited to over 75,000 people. She is currently a Physics undergraduate at Princeton University.
Emily Ling Bio
Steffan Triplett Bio
Edil Hassan Bio
Tiffany Austin Bio
Elisa Luna-Ady
Amber Taylor Bio
Gabriel Garcia Roman
Jassie UO
Jordan Thompkins
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