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 senior 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.
secretary &
engagement coordinator
Ella Murry is a junior 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.
art director
Brianna Velez is a senior 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!
social media manager
Ava Sharon is a Junior Creative Writing Major with a Minor in Creative and Cultural industries, she loves a good book by the beach, being completely broke and in a country she can’t pronounce just right… And she hopes to travel the world and write about all of her adventures, both real and fictional. She looks forward to getting her stories out there, so read up because she's going everywhere but home.
managing editor
Finn Marquis (he/they) is a sophomore creative writing major from Burbank, California. He’s a sucker for found family and friends to lovers tropes. Most of their writing showcases queer characters and relevant world topics (as he gets much of his inspiration from the world around him.) When they aren’t writing, they can be found behind the scenes in a theater production or eating potato chips on the couch while watching FRIENDS.
web designer
Casey Shimazu is a senior graphic design major and anthropology minor. You can sense them around campus when you hear an absurd amount of keychains jingling on one bag. Talk to them about design (but maybe don't when its portfolio season), basketball, and magical girl tv shows. When they aren’t saving Gotham City from danger, they can be found rewatching the same tv shows (probably glee) and rotting on the couch.
editorial board
& Selah Sanchez & Brianna Velez & Finn Marquis & Ella Murray
Tim Deutschman (fiction editor) is a senior 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.
Jasmine Sunoo- Flanders (fiction editor) is a senior 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.
Li Hong (fiction editor) is just a little kitty in a big, big speculative world.
Maya Moyer (fiction editor) (she/her) is a sophomore English Lit student who loves all things reading and writing. If you happen to ask her about it however, no, she has not made any progress on her most recent story, writing is awful, and her current read remains between her and the ao3 tab on her phone. Her more peaceful hobbies include curling up in bed watching tv and sprouting out scenes from Twilight on the regular. She's super excited to start working with Ouroboros and can't want to meet you all!
Eleanor West (fiction editor) is a second year Creative Writing and Theatre major. She loves all forms of storytelling, whether they be pop-rock musicals or vague literary fiction! She’s so excited to share the magic of this semester’s Ouroboros issue with readers.
Lian Alba (art editor) is a Creative Writing major. This is his third year at Chapman. He enjoys writing, drawing, and recently has been binge reading manga. He also spends time listening to music and rewatching his favorite films and shows, as well as calculating how to fit more books into his small bookshelf.
Like a mystical wizard who lives up in a tower, Em Baltz (visual art editor)-- Senior Creative Writing Major and VFX 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.
Kaia Benedicto (visual art editor) is a junior 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.
Erin Ohline (visual art editor) is a sophomore Art major and Environmental Studies minor who loves the eerie and imagined. She loves getting to help share creative works through her involvement in Ouroboros and Student Organized Productions here at Chapman. You may also find them haunting the area around Moulton Hall, watching a silent film on Youtube, or hunting for new bits and bobs to decorate her space or make jewelry out of.
Natalie Pincus (visual art editor) is a Senior at Chapman who has a deep love for visual and written media. She fills her time consuming copious amounts of art, and occasionally enjoys writing and drawing her own silly little guys. She enjoys walks through the eldritch forest, befriending a range of mystical creatures similar to that of a pokémon trainer.
art & design board
& Lian Alba & Em Baltz & Erin Ohline & Natalie Pincus
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Shealyn Higgins is a junior history and studio art major. She is an artist who mainly works in paint and occasionally dabbles in digital media. When she’s not painting, she’s thinking of wild horses, unicorns, and other surreal and mystical landscapes.
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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