ouroboros
meet the team.
executive committee
editor-in-chief
Selah Sanchez is a woman of few spoken words and too many written ones. She’s also a sophomore Creative Writing major. Her pastimes besides writing are baking, reading, and singing to herself. Her writing is a jumpy, fickle creature– much like herself– mostly settling on fantasy and magical realism. When not writing or doing college, she’s taking a stroll, contemplating rats, or both. She’s happy to be here, and hopes you are too.
co-managing editor and art director
Brianna Velez is a junior currently majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Latinx and Latin American Studies. She has been with Ouroboros magazine since Spring 2023 and has loved every minute of it! So far she has been an editor, a designer, Art Director, a sea creature, a robot, a god, a backstabber, a monster and Co-managing editor. She's ready to transform once again into any new roles this wonderful magazine requires of her!
co-managing editor
I have seen Ameen Veach in the shallow blinking of the southern star, and in the dead of the winds that howl around the wildflowers beneath it. He skulks there, that dread thing, festering all sick and pallid. Where he lurks there is terror, and of that terror, that which stalks the night...
He also helped make this magazine!
social media manager
Casey Shimazu is a graphic design major. With a love for design, photography, and film, they’re truly passionate about all forms of art. They enjoy the simple things in life like foam soap, small spoons, and cute keychains. When they aren’t saving Gotham City from danger, they can be found rewatching the same tv shows or eating shrimp chips.
editorial board
& Selah Sanchez & Brianna Velez & Ameen Veach & Raquel Head & Dani Torres & Em Baltz & Lian Alba
Tim Deutschman (fiction editor) is a junior pursuing his Creative Writing major. He enjoys spending his time hanging out with friends and playing story-rich video games. He is a big fan of anything that has to do with superheroes, mainly Spider-Man. He also enjoys stand-up comedy. His goal in life is to create a superhero universe that spreads across different art forms in order to show that a person’s differences are what makes them extraordinary.
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Ella Murry (fiction editor) is a sophomore Creative Writing major and Honors minor from Portland, Oregon. She's been reading and writing for as long as she can remember and is obsessed with fantasy stories and Disney! She also loves singing, acting, and drawing- anything creative, really. She hopes to publish best-selling novels one day but enjoys editing others' stories for now.
Avery Marks (fiction editor) is a Creative Writing major from Happy Valley, Oregon, and yes, it is fairly happy there with the gorgeous greenery and sweater weather. While she appreciates the California weather for aesthetic outdoor cafe reading and writing, she prefers cozying up inside with hot tea or iced (yes iced I’m from the PNW) coffee as it rains. She’s excited to be on the team as a designer and continue to grow creatively outside of her passion for the written word while supporting other creatives. A couple of her favorite pieces within Ouroboros’s genres are “The Alchemist” and “The Labyrinth.”
Charlot Born (fiction editor) is a junior Creative Writing student from Seattle, Washington. When she's not on campus participating in the numerous organizations she doesn't have time for, Charlot spends her remaining free time dancing on the fine line that is creativity and delusion. She enjoys swimming whenever and wherever she can, and dreaming of the perfect willow tree to read beneath. Also, she occasionally likes to write, and by occasionally, I mean she's woken up in the middle of the night with an unrelenting urge to put pen to paper.
Jasmine Flanders (fiction editor) is a junior Creative Writing and Technical Theatre major from Monterey, CA (the location of the aquarium in that Star Trek movie where there are whales in space). She loves nothing more than helping stories come together on page or onstage and is so excited to be part of such an amazing team. When she’s not sitting in a dark room writing or in a dark corner backstage, she can be found drinking an overpriced latte and obsessing over something stupid.
Julian Romano (fiction editor) is a snooty film critic-to-be who, each night, dreams of constructing a plastic robot army for goals that seem unknowable to the masses. He also enjoys to read, to dabble in the occasional video game, and to write (naturally!), and is working on a novel!
Li Hong (fiction editor) is just a little kitty in a big, big speculative world.
Kaia Benedicto (visual art editor) is a sophomore 2D Animation major who loves anything that has to do with sci-fi or action. She originally found her love for art in comics, but it later branched out to film. If Kaia isn't busy animating away in DMAC, she likes to write and illustrate comics, watch films, swim, or take an excursion to get coffee.
art & design board
& Brianna Velez & Casey Shimazu
Raquel Head is a senior in college with a love of reading, writing, and art. She is often times found lost in the clouds or plotting out her next big story or campaign! Also, probably dreaming of centaurs or fairies.
Lian Alba is a Creative Writing major on his second year at Chapman. He enjoys reading and occasionally, when he has good ideas, writes stories of his own. He also enjoys drawing and taking nature walks -- though somebody should probably give him some bug repellent. When his head isn't buried in a book or he's isn't drawing, you'll find him rewatching his favorite shows and movies, listening to music, or calculating how to fit more books onto his makeshift bookshelf.
Like a mystical wizard who lives up in a tower, Em Baltz-- Junior Creative Writing Major and Game Development Programming and VFX double minor-- dreams of far away worlds and seeks to make potions in their dreams. As both an author and an artist, they've always created fantastical worlds through literary and digital arts, and hope in the future to become a published author with a book that includes a map one can pull out and follow along to. They are grateful to be on the Ouroboros team and look forward more fun speculative adventures.
Dani Torres is an eldritch horror entity and illustrator/writer hailing from a cozy town in the underworld. If that wasn't terrifying enough for you, she's also a business major. Besides illustrating for Ouroboros, she can be found at your local antique mall or at a cafe dreaming of having her own animated show.
founder​
Elya Brown is a writer, programmer, and grad student. Having received a bachelor's in Creative Writing and history from Chapman University, she is currently pursuing a master's degree in computational linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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