Editorial Team
Executive Editors
Georgia Kate Ryan
Managing Editor Lead Design Editor
is a graduate creative writing student who never saw themself in grad school at all. They consider themself a learner much less than a student, but their goals are big and so are the requirements to meet them. High school saw their first foray into publishing—the school newspaper Grand Arts Gazette—and making zines containing their own original poetry, art, prose, and research seemed like the only logical next step. A now published poet (in magazines like Northridge Review, and Pfudalmda Dadamag) and award winning children’s writer (The Joan Nessan Creative Writing Prize in Children’s Literature, 2025), Georgia loves exploring different genres and forms in their writing, ever expanding their creative horizons. They love the physical act of collage and binding in bookmaking, but their love of physical art also extends to their work across the fiber arts with sewing, crochet, knitting, and embroidery.
Ozzy Markie Metzelar
Assistant Managing Editor Lead Production Editor
Jesse Illanes
Editor-at-Large
is currently a graduate student in Mass Communication and has a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Journalism. He was an editor in The Daily Sundial, The Scarlet Review and Scene Magazine. Beyond the bylines, he highlights communities in arts & entertainment that deserve a brighter spotlight. While his recent work focuses on writing articles, his creative work consists of poems and short stories featuring the genres of horror, comedy and drama. When he isn’t writing, Jesse is probably immersed in a game, a movie, or a favorite album.
Editors
Andrea Benavides
Assistant Events Manager
is a Northridge native, but has spent most of her life in Lancaster, California, relating all too well to the commuter lifestyle. With a focus on Literature, she has always been quick to look for the deeper meaning in various media, much to the chagrin of her friends and family. With a love for the arts, Andrea includes paintings and drawings in her writing whenever possible; she believes that art and writing should mix more often. In her free time, she likes drawing and reading fiction.
Matthew Clark
Assisant Proofreader Lead Fiction Editor
is a writer from the Mojave who is heavily influenced by the harshness and resilience of blue-collar desert life. After spending the last year writing screenplays, he’s now re-focused on prose fiction with two novels, Emperor and Snake Venom, in the querying process. His editorial values focus on pieces that evoke energy, image, perception and insight through language, while his work is guided by a singular north star: explore the deep complexities of people.
Fatima Guerrero
Assistant Production Editor Assistant Drama Editor
Henry Hartman
Lead Historian Lead Reviews Editor
is a Creative Writing major and History minor. Though made horribly uncomfortable by the idea of praising himself in an editor biography, he’ll tell you this: he’s an aspiring novelist, whose work is generally immersed in fantasy and history, building off myth and magic and mystery through the eyes of characters ranging from odd to truly insane.
Julianna M Hoyle
Lead Social Media Editor Lead Poetry Editor
is a Screenwriting Major who has been writing screenplays, award winning poetry, and short stories, one of which was published in the Spring 2024 Northridge Review, since she was nine years old. With dreams of writing the next Game of Thrones or being a future Shonda Rhymes or Taylor Sheridan, Julianna has a particular focus on high fantasy worlds filled with magic and melancholic character dramas of grief and self-discovery. Currently, Julianna is in her final year of college and working two different internships as a promotional video editor at the National STEM Honors Society and a talent intern with Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier, and Hinojosa Inc. In her spare time, Julianna enjoys relaxing with RPG video games, cartoons, and trying her hand at writing her first graphic novel, The Necromancer.
Daniel Luna
Assistant Design Editor Assistant Poetry Editor
is a poet that is home grown here in Los Angeles, California. He enjoys reading and writing about poetry while getting into the little cracks and crevices of the genre.The thing that fascinates him the most about poetry is that of rhythm and rhyme. Now one of his goals in life is to give a platform where kids or anyone for that matter can forget about their problems in the real world if only for a moment. Just like how fiction and poetry has done for himself in his darkest times.
Teena-Marie Mcclendon
Assistant Social Media Editor Assistant Fiction Editor
Ouanessa Nana
Lead Events Editor Lead Art Editor
is a graduate creative writing student with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing. She was an editor for The Daily Sundial and writes short stories on her blog, The Put Down. She enjoys writing short bursts of work that include speculative fiction and sharp imagery. For Ouanessa, writing and creating stories are more than just words on a page. When her world falters, her mind gutters, and the darkness in her gnarls and gnaws at her heart, she has her stories to fall on and worlds to disappear into. She hopes to one day change the world by making it a more empathetic place with her writing. She wants to create stories that everyone can relate to with an emphasis on being vulnerable and loving as hard as you can. In her free time, you can see her reading a book or walking her Belgian Malinois, Hazel.
Charles Patsch
Lead Proofreader Lead Drama Editor
is a creative writing major and a transfer student from Los Angeles Valley College in his third semester at CSUN. An aspiring writer and editor, he has written in a variety of genres, yet simultaneously refuses to let his output be confined by any of them. Outside of an emphasis on characterization and the psychological, anything that falls within the realm of his imagination is fair game. Inspired by a steady diet of reading from a young age that ranges from the works of William Gibson to Joe Abercrombie, he now seeks to reproduce what made stories so compelling for him within his own work. Besides reading and writing, he also enjoys swimming, listening to music, learning more about his favorite subject history, and taking walks.
Alondra Quintanilla
Assistant Copyeditor Assistant Art Editor
is currently in her last year of undergrad, getting ready to earn her B.A. in English - Creative Writing. This is her first semester as a Copyeditor with the Northridge review. As a writer, she works on short stories and will occasionally dabble in poetry. As a reader, writer, and movie lover, Alondra will read and watch just about anything, but she particularly enjoys the horror and romance genres. That remains to be the focus of her short stories, but much of her work is inspired by her experiences as a first generation Mexican-American and the dichotomy of the life her family built in the U.S. and the life they left in Michoacán. Her hopes for the future are to build a career working behind the scenes in the publishing industry, while continuing to create her own stories and worlds.
Michael Valencia
Assistant Historian Assistant Reviews Editor
Faculty Adviser
Sean Pessin is an adjunct lecturer at CSU Northridge in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies as well as the Department of English. He served as a student fiction editor on Northridge Review in 2013, and became faculty adviser in 2018. In addition to his contributions to CSUN's literary scene, he is the co-publisher of Magra Books with Paul Vangelisti, and he is a member of the Glass Table Collective — the publisher of What Books Press. His work is always fabulous and strange and queer.
Previous Editors of Northridge Review
Ricardo Acevedo, Norma Aceves, Jasmine Adame, Jazmine Agregado, Edwin Aguilar, Brianna Aguirre, Nina Ahn, Jack Ahrens, Tricia Airlie, Areli Alatorre, Carol Alexander, Christina Alfaro, Audrey Allahverdian, Luis Almendarez, Bryan Antonio, Corie Alvarado, Desiree Alvarado, Moncho Alvarado, Rosa Alvarez, André Alviso, Ushma Amin, Dennis Anderson, Erin Anderson, Michael Anderson, Michelle Ansari, Danny Antonelli, Bryan Antonio, Geghard Arakelian, Elizabeth Arana, Cinthya Archila, Omar Armenta Olmos, Heidi Arndt, Suzanne Arthur, Nelly Assadourian, Zorah Attai, Anna Austin, Erica Avila, Taylor Ayers, Trent Babb, Tracy J. Bachman, Camelia Baker, Kelly Baker, Kourtne Ballentine, Arlene Ballonoff, Christopher Bangasser, Megan Barlog, Laura Barnaby, Eric Barnhart, Rebecca S.E. Baroma, Christian Barragan, Richard Bashara, Tim Batchelder, Robert Baty, Joanna Bautista, Andrea Baylian, Lauren Beale, Richard Becker, Donna Beckman, Michele Beller, Hannah Bender, Bryanna Benedetti-Coomber, Jessica Bergman, Michael Berns, Shayna Bernstein, Andrew Bethke, James Bezerra, August Bianco, Ray Birdsong, Sarah Blue, Steven Bockover, Saige Boddy, Claire Boeck, Louisa Bonca, Emily Borses, Sam Bowers, Michael Bowie, Tori Bowler, Greg Boyd, Joanna Bradbury, Kiara Braden, John L. Brandi, Jacob Brenner, Cecily Breyer, Fifi Bronstein, Aliou Amravanti Kashka Mandela Brown-Burke, Angela Browne, Barbara Bruce, Ethan S. Bruer, Ethel Bruno, Norman Buchwald, Daniel Buck, Indira Buerklin, Bob Buffum, Michael Burns, Michael Burrs, Heidy Caceres, Elizabeth Caffey, Susan Caggiano, Diane Callas, Jamie Camarena, Clint Campbell, Nicholas Campbell, Brett Candace, Sam Card, Karen Carlson, Lisa Carlson, Skylar Carter, Carolyn Caselli, Joseph X Casillas, Paul Castillo, Annette Cenkner, Ani Chakiryan, Josalinn Chavarria, Candice Chaves, Melanie Chavez, Mollie Chavez, Carrie Chen, Donna Chick, Michelle Chuning, Deborah Chutuk, Dina Ciccarelli, Nanely Cifuentes, Taylor Clark, Jesse Clemens, Virginia Clements, Sam Cline, Kathy Cochran, Evelyn Coghlan, Michael Cole, Richard Coleman, Frances Collette, Elisabeth Cooke, Corrina Coorssen, Kalan Cordell, Caroline Costa, Ellie Costanza, Toby Cowan, Robert Cowell, Ken Cran, Mary Craven, Gwen Crittle, Angelica Crook, David Cruz, Jeremy Cueto, Morgan Darian, Alejandro Davila, Hanna Davis, LeAnne Davis, Francisco De Leon, Daniel de Sailles, Kaleigh De Salvio, Alberto Delgado, Alberto E. Delgado III, Alberto Delgato, Chris Delling, June Demetry, Sarah Densmore, Nicole Derderian, Ty Devoe, Lou Di Giacomo, Cristian Diaz, Jana DiMaggio, Valentin Dinu, Shahbaz Doad, Ismael Dones, Ismanuelle Dones, Amanda Dorf, Robert Dow, Jeff Drake, Carol Drotman, Rosemary Druar, Raquel Dubin, Laura G. Dunlap, Rachel Dunn, Brian Edwards, Michael Edwards, Tristan Eisenberg, Ashley Elshimali, Megan Emery, Paty Escobar, Brianna Estrada-Pimentel, Jen Eto, Josh Fajardo, Kenneth Fales, Melissi Farber, Cheryl Farmer, Erin Farrell, Della Farren, Shandra Faulkner, Dale Fedderson, Lorraine Feistman, Megan Ferguson, Sandra Fernandez, Sue Few, Andru Fink, Katherine Firkins, David Fischer, Jack W. Fischer, Abraham Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Fleury, Fred Flores, Jonathan Flores, Stephanie Flores, America Flores-Hernandez, Madeleine Florey, Beckett Folwell, Julie Foster, Marlin Foxworth, Emily Foytek, James French, Alexis Frixione, Zach Fromson, Roza Gabrielyan, Meaghan Gallagher, Erick Gallegos, Lucy Galstyan, Marcela Gamboa, Adriana Garcia, Agustin Garcia, Cassandra Garcia, Diana Garcia, Freddy Garcia, Ron Gard, Sophia Garnica, Don Gere, Jason Gibby, Ann Gillick, Sammy Ginsberg, Morayah Godoy Lenari, Ellen Goldstein, Harold Goldstein, sam goli, Louis Gonlag, Ysabella Gonzalez, Lilibeth Gonzales-Gomez, Ariana Gonzalez, Lenny Gonzalez, Tomas Gonzalez, Elizabeth Gordon, Tracy Gordon, Dan Gotch, Melanie Grafil, Emily Green, Gary Green, Kim Green, Sylvie Green Shapero, Jennifer Greenberg, Maxwell Griffin, Sheryle Groff, Wendy Grosskopf, Disa Grove, Luisa Guardado, Emily Gurrola, Ashley Hagen, Danny Haloossim, Philip Ham, Ginny Hare, David Harris, Janet Heilke, Rich Heimanson, Kathy Heller, vanda hembree, Wes Hempel, Justin Henderson, Cynthia Hernandez, Israel Hernandez, Kaitlin Hernandez, Poppy Hernandez, Susana Hernandez, Margo Hernandez-Mejia, Colin Herrera, Paul Herrera, Sarah Heston, Marion Heyn, Marguerite K. Hill, Edward Hinchman, Starlon Hithe, Brenne Hoeven, Preston Holmes, Jennifer Holst, Charles Hood, Cory Houston, Daryn Houston, Anthony Huben, Fred Huntington, Michele Hurd, Randi Hurtt, Kelsey Hutchison, Brett Hymes, Jaclyn Hymes, Greg Imlay, Julie Imlay, Anna Incs, Michelle Iranpoor, Andrew Isagulyan, Sindy Ixcatcoy, Dache Jackson, Kathryn Jacobi, Joseph Jaffray, Mostafa Jalal, Robert Jenks, Alex Johnson, Alexandra Johnson, Holly Johnson, Jodi Johnson, Kar Johnson, Libby Johnson, Ron Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Kier Johnston, Eric Jones, Itiola Jones, Jennifer Jones, Jordan Jones, Lisa Jones, Willow Jones, Robert Jones, Isabel Juarez, j julie, Chritopher Jung, Chris Jurgenson, Nicolle Kaiser-Brower, Taleen Kalafian, Hagop Kalaidjian, Kevin Kalfayan, Pradnya Kalgutkar, P. Drew Kampion, Robert Kane, Saman Kangarloo, Leslie Kawakami, Arthur Kayzakian, Kristin Kaz, Jamie Kazay, Kalani Kelly, Carmelina Kennedy, Tadeh Kennedy, Melinda Keramat, Taleen Khalafian, Kwang Ho Kim, Sue Kim, Janet King, Jessica King, Eric Kirby, Steve Kochak, Kristina Kolesnyk, Kelan Koning, Julie Kornblum, Yasmin Kouhnavard, Marian Kourieh, Serra Koyshman, Jerrold Kozdoy, Ryan Kozonis, Jane Kozumplik, Lewis J. Kruglick, Jessica Kubinec, Mandalyn Kuntz, Christine Kuyumjian, Albert Kwak, Brittany Kyles, Maria La Ganga, noreen lace, Marcus Landon, Sue Langland, Elizabeth Lao, Ryan Lasky, Irwin Lausker, David Lavender, Margaret Lavin, William Lawson, T. S. Leas, Dennis Leavens, Susannah LeBaron, Alex Lee, Kenari Lee, Kyle Lefton, Julianne Legrand, Stacey Legrand, Marcy Levine, Sharon Levine, Damon Lewis, Faith Lewis, Sandra Leyva, Adriana Licerio, Joyce Lincoln, Jim Linville, Andrelisa Livingston II, Asusena Lopez, Danny Lopez, Kathy Lorenzen, Erin Loughlin, John Loughlin III, Ruben Lozano, Melissa ltivas, Jennifer Lu, Yesenia Luna, Diana Lupercio, Issa Lutfi, Sean Macintyre, Shayleene MacReynolds, Evon Magaña, Deja Magee-Moss, Megan Magers, Robin Magnuson, Farah Malla, Antonio Manriquez, Nina Mansker, Alexandra Marchese, Calder Marchman, Grant Marcus, Greg Marget, Gerald Margolis, Christina Marriott, Jose Marroquin, Bradley Marsh, Chris Marsh, Donna Marsh, Lauren Marshall, Bryant Martinez, Betsy Mascorro, Bobbie Mason, Kerry Mayer, Loretta McCormick Huizar, Rich McGinis, June Mears, Linda Melendez, Ivey Mellem, Joanna Meltzer, Christopher Mendoza, Kimberly Regina Mendoza, Markie Metzelar, Earl Metzner, Marissa Miano, John Michaeli, Matthew J. Miehe, Michael Miller, Rachel Minutella, Antonio Mireles, Trevor Misner, Amanda Mitchell, Melanie Miulli, Leann Mizzi, Joyce Montenegro, Candice Montgomery, Adrien Montoya, Jennifer Morales, Jose Morales, Susan Morales, David Morck, Melissa Morehouse, Kelly Moreno, Cambri Morris, Jennifer Morris, Kait Morris, Ashlyn Morse, Meisha Mossayebi, Marina Mularz, Grace Muller, Robert Mulqueen, Amanpreet Multani, Nicole Muraoka, Israel Muratalla, Robin Myers Peshek, Katherine Nabulsi, Adi Nagary, Isabel Nagy, Francesca Nardi, Joe Nardoni, Jessica Nassar, Jeremy Nave, Brittney Neff, Hannah Newaz, Michelle Newman, Khiem Nguyen, John Nitch, Joseph Nixon, Miguel Noh, Carolina Nolasco, Jonathan Nosala, Kaylinh Nyugen, Laurie O’Connell, Patricia O’Hearn, Devin Oeland, Katie Oh, Keith Onstad, Jonathan Ornelas, Daisy Orozco, Nathan Otani, Annette Ovanessian, Kevin Owen, Thalia Pablo, Gregory Pancho, Chris Pandolfi, Ronald Pape, Kimberly Parada, Daniel Park, Don Pawlek, Lucas Paynter, Trista Payte, Annette Peck, Jennifer Peck, Susanne Peeters, Walter Pena, Steve Penna, Cydni Peppers, Jessica Peres, Andres Perez-Benitez, Lynn Perkins, Sean Pessin, Jake Peterson, Stephanie Phillips, Terry Phillips, Maria Pilatowicz, Karen Platt, Kennedy Platt, Carrin Pockrand, Christine Podbielski, Erica Pollock, Jose Ponce, Ron Prank, Steven Preciado, Baillie Puckett, Julio Quezada, Tanya Quin, Jamie Quinn, Valerie Quiroga, Rabya Raheem, Johnny Ramirez, Lorena Ramirez, Andrea Ramos, Shirley Ramos, Suraj Ranchod, Silvia Rangel, Mary Louise Rawn, Connie Reisman, Virginia Requa, Ashley Reuben, Kristen Revolorio, Jeremy Reyna, Amy Reynolds, Sherif Rezkalla, Stephen Richmond, Joshua Rideaux, Doug Riechel, Marcus Rigsby, Kaila Rivas, Melissa Rivas, Glenda Rivera, Astrid Roberson, Tanio Roberson, Brandi Roberts, John Roberts, Joseph Roberts, Richard Robinson, Emily Robles, Leonel Robles-Rodriguez, Natalie Rocha, Katherine Rodriguez, Damian Romero, Gabriel Romero, Steven Romo, Jordan Ross, Donna Rozelle, Trendy Rozelle, Edward Ruano, Tracey Ruby, Liliana Ruiz, Airica Rushing, Georgia Kate Ryan, Eva Sahakyan, Brigitte Salazar, Raul Salcido, Richard Samuels, Karla Sanchez, Kimberly Sanders, Ralph Sanders, Dorothy Sandoval, Janelle Sarch, Austin Sawyer, Karina Schink, Tara Schiro, Myriam Schottenstein, Susan Schulman, Andrew M. Septimus, Diana Serrano, Kirk Sever, Cynthia Shahian, Fauniel Shaw, Jenna Sheesley, Zoe Shelafoe, Rachel Sherwood, Aiko Shimizu, Dean Shipp, David Shireman, Alexis Shrewsbury, Leonore Shtern, Robert Shuttleworth, Jr., Tim Siegrist, Frank Simonian, Sarah Simons, Bill Simpson, Irena Sinitsky, Houston Siracusa, Ry Slotar, Gar Smith, Heather Smith, Olvard Smith, Pat Smith, Patrick Smith, Robin Smith, Sharon Smith, Theresa Smith, Nicole Socala, Xochitl Sosa, Emilio Sotelo, Jon Soto, Jeremiah Sovekty, Alexa Spann, Natasha Spickenreuther, Gina Srmabekian, Meredith St. John, Hugo Stanchi, Denise Stevens, Melody Stevenson, Curtis Stewart, hallie stewart, Hollie Stewart, Michelle Stobaugh, Vance Studley, Janet Sullivan, Jeannette Svoboda, Brittney Tafoya, Junko Takagi, Shawna Taklender, Canan Tasci, Janie Teague, Rhea Tepp, Angela Terteryan, Alene Terzian, Dave Thibeault, Dixie Thomas, Taryn Thompson, Vincent Tolstoy, Julia Tomes, Sylvia Tonapetian, Terese Torgersen, Ivy Trent, Alexandra Trinidad, David Trinidad, Maddy Trujillo, Judy Trunk, Cole Turner, Maria Turnmeyer, Victor Ulloa-Reyeys, Ty Ung, Caroline Urbina, Leticia Valente, Loudres Vallin, George van Duinwyk, Preston Vanderslice, Autumn Vanderveer, Alejandro Vargas, Jose Vargas, Ashley Vasquez, Maya Vasquez, Vanessa Vega, Miguel Velasquez, Kaitlen Vickers, Paul Vickland, Christela Villalobos, Luisa Villani, Sam Vincent, Alexander von Cube, Andrew Wallace, Albert Warner, Charla Warton, Shalisa Washington, Danielle Watson, Virginia Webster, Scoti Weigand, Henry Weiner, Edward Welsh, Mike Werner, Dortha Westerbeck, Sharon Wheat, Darryl White, Delta Williams, Sunshine Williams, Melodie Williamson, Kimberly Wilson, Megan Wilson, Paige Wilson, Laura Winters, Desiree Wold, Gabby Woodings, Gabrielle Woodings, Liz Woolley, Steve Woolsey, Mary Wrenn, Dirk Wunderlich, Chelsea Wynne, Tiffany Wysbeek, Emilee Yanik, Jason Yanos, Eugene Yi, Aaron Ying, Kendyl Yonamine, Aquil Yorke, Angie Young, John Young, Zakiya Zahra Hasan, Rene Zadoorian, Kathleen Zamora, Abraham Zapata, Daniela Zarate-Castillo, Kailin Zhang, Alejandro Zizumbo, & Charles Zukovsky.
Previous Literary Magazine Faculty Advisers
William Anderson, Dorothy Barresi, Saul Bernstein, Lary Gibson, Wallace Graves, Katharine Haake, Christopher Higgs, Mona Houghton, Loretta Huizar, Arthur Lane, Jack Lopez, Andzhela Keshishian, Khaled Mattawa, Jan Ramjerdi, Benjamin Saltman, Richard Schramm, Harold Schwarm, Ann Stanford, & Warren Wedin.
Updates or Revisions?
If you served as an editor of Northridge Review (1982–present), Eclipse (1962–8), Artifax (1971–3), All of It (1972), Angel's Flight (1976–82), or any of the other magazines that eventually became Northridge Review, please let the editorial team know by email.
