i once picked up a dime in the shampoo aisle of an nyc drugstore. several streets later, when i discovered bethesda fountain for the first time, the dime burned a hole into my pocket and slipped through the net of charred & smoking threads into a portal of ripples. since then i have not stopped […]
Rina Olsen
Rina Olsen, a rising high school junior from Guam, is the author of Third Moon Passing (Atmosphere Press, June 2023). She is an editor for the teen literary magazines Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine, Polyphony Lit, and Blue Flame Review, and she was invited to be an instructor for Polyphony Lit’s Summer 2023 writing workshop Around the World of Poetry in 80 Days. Her writing has been awarded by Guam History Day, the Sejong Cultural Society, and the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, and she has been published in Okay Donkey, The Hopper, Emerge Literary Journal, Lumiere Review, and elsewhere. Visit her at her website: https://rinaolsen.com.