Rory Baskin is a high school student and poet living in Los Angeles. Aside from writing, she loves reading, debate, philosophy, and classics. Her work is published in Trouvaille Review, Petrichor Magazine, Dream Noir Magazine, Boats Against the Current, and elsewhere. She is also a poetry editor for The Cloudscent Journal and October Hill Magazine.
Lucia Sanchez Gagerman is a writer and reader living in Los Angeles. She loves reading short fiction, playing the piano, debate, and going on hikes. She is so excited to join the Fireworks staff! Penelope Pressman is a writer and reader living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Aside from short stories and fireworks, she loves studying and reading about physics and psychology. Her writing has been published in numerous online and print publications, including Beyond Words, Excitement and Talisman, TeenInk, Blossoms Journal, Just a Moment, the Amazine, and Hot Pot magazine. Additionally, she feels very strongly that Times New Roman is the best font to write in.
Penelope Pressman is a writer who discovered her love of short stories relatively recently after years of sticking to novels and poems. She is also an avid reader who would like everyone to know that Times New Roman is (and will always be) the best font. She has published poems and short stories in a variety of anthologies, collections and magazines, and usually attempts to avoid mentioning her controversial opinion that the Oxford Comma is extremely overrated for the sake of stability in the writing community.