About Us
a platform created by teens, for teens
Adolescence is an online magazine for the youth of today. We want to share our generation's talents,
experiences, stories, and knowledge. Our founder is a 17 year old girl from Eastern Europe, currently living in
Western Europe. Because of her two very different backgrounds, she wants this magazine to be about growing up
all around the world, or just life in different places in general. She also wants adolescence to be a platform where
teens and young adults can share whatever they feel like. Have a photo you recently took and want to show it off?
Send it to adolescence. What about a short story? Adolescence. An essay on a topic you're very interested in?
Adolescence is perfect for you.
Our Story
We wanted a place for our generation to share whatever they want to share. We want young journalists to publish their findings. We want photographers to show off their work to the world. And we want writers to share their stories and poems with others.
We want young writers and artists to be able to share their work easily and quickly, giving them more time to obsess over their art.
Our Team
Eleonora Anna
founder, editor, writer, social media manager
Age: 17
Eleonora is a Latvian girl living in Ireland. She has enjoyed writing and creating all her life and has decided to create adolescence to let others enjoy it too. She enjoys travelling, watching films, and listening to music. She hopes to attend a university in either the US or Europe and to study journalism. Some lifetime goals of hers are to travel to every country in Europe and to have a career that she loves so much, it feels like a hobby.
Alicia Gogirla
Writer
Age: 21
Alicia is a young woman, 21 years old. She is a professional handball player from Romania that dreamed to have her own work published somewhere, but was too anxious to express herself to the public by herself. A young woman that feels deeply, a hopeful romantic with a spark of love for drawing sketches, learning languages, coffees with croissants and a good book, and a lot of love for her puppy and her cat.
Shruti G
Editor
Age: 18
Shruti is a writer and budding photographer based in mumbai and washington dc. She currently is in senior year of high school and aspires to become a biomedical engineer. some of their hobbies include songwriting, cooking, and swimming. When they are not occupied with academic commitments, she volunteers at a retirement home and contributes to some magazines as a guest writer.​​​
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Olivia Hales
Editor
Age: 15
Olivia is an aspiring poet, aged 15, an English girl living in Italy. Her most practiced hobbies are writing, reading and dancing (which she has been doing for 10 years now). When she's not violently writing poetry at 3 am she is probably re-watching Dead Poets Society (again!) or listening to The Smiths, drinking coffee and reading beside her 5 cats.
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Kennith Woods
Editor & Writer
Age: 19
Kennith Woods is a sophomore at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he serves as news editor for the school newspaper. He serves multiple roles on campus, including being a Reginald F. Lewis Scholar, the head of the Student Government Association Appellate Committee, and a 2023 Orientation Leader. He is also a 2023 writing fellow for The Nation. He plans on getting his work out there by submitting to literary magazines and founding his own school magazine. When Kennith isn't busy writing and editing pieces for the newspaper or for his personal pleasure, you can likely catch him with his wonderful girlfriend, Rosie, buried in a book, blasting funk or hip-hop from his headphones, or neurotically scanning other publications for new ideas. Beyond writing, he's an avid dancer, theatre nerd, and lover of both cats and dogs.
Veah Davis
Editor
Age: 17
Veah Davis (she/they) is a high school senior from California that, when asked to talk about herself, says one thing: “Jack of all trades, master of none.” From baking to fixing up cars, there’s one thing that Veah always comes back to and it will always be writing. Their works haven’t been published yet, but she has a few books in the works that she can’t wait to publish for the world to see. For now, though, you’ll find her writing in her little corner while juggling the other creative projects she is floating in her brain.
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Seohyun Ryu
Editor & Writer
Age: 17
Seohyun Ryu is currently a junior who attends high school in Southern California. She moved to the States during her first year of high school from South Korea. She loves connecting the study of language with storytelling through various forms of art. When Seohyun is not writing, she usually watches classic Disney animations while knitting blankets for her dogs to snuggle in (and bite).​​​
Jennifer H
Graphic designer
Age: 15
Jennifer is a creative, hardworking girl. She really likes doing mixed media art like clay, crocheting and she started digital art 4 years ago. She also does ballet 3 times a week so she is good at managing her hectic schedule.​
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Elise Gavin
Blog Writer
Age: 15
Elise Gavin is a young Scottish writer and poet obsessed with anything historical or absurd, with classic whodunits stirred into the mix on weekends. When not writing or in research rabbit holes, she is known to dwell in the woods looking for inspiration.
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Moira
Editor
Age: 16
Moira (she/her) is a young Filipino-Chinese writer. She enjoys her time reading books, studying, and making new friends! When she is not doing things mentioned, she is in her room working on her weakness by trying to understand her accounting homework, hoping it will balance.
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Mia Soto
Editor
Age: 18
M.S. Blues is a multiracial, queer, and versatile writer. Her work revolves around the darker pieces of humanity society tends to neglect. She has been published by The Trailblazer Review, Eber & Wein, Pa'lante!, Literal Impact, Teen Ink, Wingless Dreamer, Prismatica Magazine, The Insurgence Magazine, Pile Press, The Amazine, Iceblink Literary Magazine, The Looking Glass Review, The Elysian Chronicles, and Moonbow Magazine. She currently resides in the Bay Area, California, and serves as an editor to The Amazine. Her Instagram handle is @m.s.blues_
Jasmin Knock
Blog Writer
Age: 21
Jasmin is a fashion journalist and writer from Suffolk, UK. She is currently in university studying for a master's degree in international relations and is due to graduate in the summer of 2024. She is focused on securing a career in the fashion industry as a journalist in the near future. She is passionate about cats, crochet, reading, and travel. Her Instagram is @jasminknock
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Isabel Gan
Editor
Age: 17
Isabel is a junior based in California who is an avid reader of literary and historical fiction. She is a lover of all forms of evocative imagery and an adamant believer in alliteration. She is also a zealous overuser of em-dashes—they are her favorite punctuation. Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See is arguably her biggest writing inspiration, and she strives to evoke the same haunting, ethereal quality found in Doerr's writing. Aside from reading and writing, Isabel enjoys playing the piano, watching c-dramas, and a good cup of matcha.​​​​​
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Sharanya Tissera
Editor
Age: 18
Sharanya Tissera is creative, she's got a lot of aspirations and above all, a terrible sleep schedule. When she's not fighting the terrors of writer's block, you can find the poor soul sleepily scrolling through her Letterboxd in search of old films to watch. While you may think she's chronically tired, her writing brings her back to life and spreads a vibrancy that is apparent in the shine of her eyes.
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Finn Maxwell
Writer
Age: 16
Finn Maxwell is a sophomore in high school. He writes short stories and poems, often taking inspiration from home in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Finn's work has been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards and the Iowa Young Writers studio and is present or forthcoming in The Malu Zine, The Blue Marble Review, and The Incandescent Review. When he isn’t writing, he enjoys exploring his local state park, painting, and listening to music.
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Elizabeth Slater
Blog Writer
Age: 17
Elizabeth is a 17 year old student from the UK. In her spare time, she likes to knit and obsess over historical fiction. She is also a Chappell Roan enthusiast.
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Jasper Chen
Writer
Age: 16
Jasper is a Californian writer. He loves talking about all versions of Sherlock Holmes, sulking around his local library, and being pretentious about music.
Trashaun Hill
Blog Writer & Editor
Age: 17
Trashaun is a 17 year old aspiring poet. He is currently planning to attend the University of Mississippi. He enjoys reading, writing (poems, fiction, etc.), music, and painting. He plans to become a doctor, but will never give up his passion for the arts.​
Evan Violets
Editor
Age: 18
Evan Violets is an 18 year old student, poet and playwright from Singapore. He enjoys putting together and consuming most written art forms. He loves good music, and is currently into shoegaze and alt. rock! When not studying, you can find him at a corner spamming in a word document with a cup of coffee-flavored oatmilk!
Rachel Wong
Writer
Age: 17
​Rachel is a 17 year old who's pretty interested in many forms of media, especially film. She's here for the Brides vendetta in Kill Bill, Sin City's criminal underbelly, or Hepburn's escapades in Roman Holiday. If not moping around in her bedroom, you can find her absorbed in making her drip coffee, or taking too long of a walk by the promenade beside her apartment.
Stevi Bach
Writer
Age: 17
Stevi is 17 years old and enjoys all things film, poetry, and reading related. In her free time, she is watching a movie or attempting to write. Whenever she isn’t writing, you can a find her drinking a lot of coffee or tea.
Conlan Heiser-Cerrato
Editor
Age: 16
Conlan Heiser-Cerrato is a 16 year-old poet from Maryland. He enjoys playing soccer, listening to The Smiths, taking walks, and reading. He loves to write and read poetry.
Want to join our team? Submit your applications now!
We are will be looking for editors once submissions start coming in, so if you are up for the job, submit your application now!