Rishi Janakiraman is a high school sophomore who writes from Raleigh, North Carolina. His work can be found in Blue Marble Review, Rust + Moth, and eunoia among others, and he is a top 15 Foyle Young Poet of the Year. He is an alum of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program 2024, a 5-time Scholastic national gold medalist, and he also writes for Eucalyptus Lit. In his free time, he enjoys strawberries and reading postmodern philosophers.