Jack Bynum is a developing essayist, poet, and student. He loves reading, exploring, and chance encounters with strangers. As a friend has said of him, “with Jack, one never knows what he will do next.”
John Chen was born and raised in Taiwan. He moved to New York in 2009 to go to a boarding school. He is going to NYU next year to pursue acting.
Essays: Waiting for Home, Black Converse, Bowl of Faith
Raleigh Capozzalo is finishing up his senior year at The Masters School and will be attending Yale University in September. Raleigh often bumps The Polish Ambassador—an indie electronic dance music producer—and other fresh beats while he writes.
Essays: A Conversation, Down the Rabbit Hole
Dylan Etzel lives in Westchester, New York. He is near the end of his senior year and will be attending The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
Essays: Niche, Wherein Lies a Candle Snuffed
Lily Herzan is eighteen and will be attending Tufts University in the fall. She grew up in New York City and can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Essays: Bottle Man, 300 Central Park West, Our New York
Annie Mesa likes to eat avocados whole, banter with her tabby cat Buddy, and admire animal bones. When she is not coddling baby vegetable plants or getting locked out of the art room, she is attending her senior year at The Masters School. She currently lives in Pleasantville, New York, the second best smelling city in the world according to GQ Magazine.
Essays: A Summer of Spinach, The Volvo 850, One Hundred and Eighty Degrees
Rachel Nierenberg was born in New York City and has lived there all her life. She grew up in a family of musicians and plays French horn. Rachel loves exploring and eating new and exotic foods, but her true passion is music. She intends to pursue her musical studies and one day be a professional horn player.
Essays: Cherry Blossoms and Fairy Houses
Raphael Norwitz is a senior at The Masters School and will be attending Columbia University in the fall.
Essays: The Kimura Kid
Ryan Rosenberg lives in the suburbs of New York City and is the eldest of four children and two Australian labradoodles. She has a fear of elevators and loathes Nickleback. She enjoys pretending to be good at yoga, admiring Christmas lights on other people’s houses, and eating Trader Joe’s Lentil Curls. She will be attending Brown University this fall.
Essays: Dad and I, The Test, The Fickle Days
Emma Shepardson resides in the suburbs of New York City and is the oldest child of three. She formerly had a fish named Fernando who froze to death during Hurricane Sandy. She dislikes shopping for shoes given that her left foot is a size and a half larger than her right. She enjoys interrupting people, chauffeuring around her driving-skills-deficient friends, and aggressively voicing her opinions. She will be attending the University of Southern California next year.
Hannah Weber is a senior at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She will be attending the Georgetown University School of Health Studies in the fall of 2013. New to creative nonfiction, she has enjoyed studying the genre throughout her senior year and plans to write many more personal essays in the future. She currently lives in Westchester, New York with her mother and sister.
Essays: Twenty-one Months, Dr. Weber