ABOUT

kaleidoscope (noun): 1. a constantly changing pattern or sequence of objects or elements. 2. a group of butterflies
kaleidoscoped (adjective): having been changed, shuffled, refracted, transformed

KALEIDOSCOPED is a new literary magazine formed by MFA students at UC San Diego. We are especially interested in publishing literary and visual art that makes use of cross-genre, hybrid, experimental, unusual, or fragmented forms, and in turn allows us to imagine the world from its creator’s unique position within it: to re-imagine what the world is, and what it might be. We hope to carve out space for works that don’t easily fit within academic and commercial publishing, including works by those who have never published before, those who don’t have a degree in the arts, or whose work shatters traditional notions of genre, time, and story. We welcome works which contend with historical and ongoing racial and colonial violence in any of its forms.

UC San Diego is situated on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay nation.
Our inaugural issue is funded by UCSD’s Arts and Community Engagement initiative.

EDITORIAL TEAM

photo credit: Carmen Lopez

Founding Editor
Becca Rae Rose (she/her) is a poet from Sisters, Oregon, a town so small it doesn’t have a single traffic light. She’s a Leo rising double Aries and she has no idea what that means but somehow, it makes sense. On an ideal day you’ll find her in a Ponderosa forest with her feet in a cold creek, drinking a dairy-free milkshake and petting all the dogs. She is an Assistant Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine and is currently pursuing her MFA in Writing at University of California San Diego. Her work has appeared in iō Literary Journal, InkSpeak, and Tides Zine.

Associate Editor & Co-founder
Born and raised in Olympia, Washington, Alissa Tu (she/her) spends most of her days as an MFA student at the University of California San Diego. Her work can be found at Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Loud Coffee Press, and Bitter Melon Poetry.

Associate Editor & Co-founder
Julia Moncur (she/her) is a cross-genre writer and current MFA student at UC San Diego. She is internationally published at presses including Thrice Fiction Literary Magazine, Riggwelter Press, and others. She is a mental and maternal health activist.

Graphic Designer & Co-founder
Iliria Osum (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist pursuing her MFA in Writing at UC San Diego; she grew up on Lenape land and currently lives in Kumeyaay territory. Her work has been installed or produced in New York, London, and San Diego, where she also plays in several bands.

Co-founder & Former Editor
Siloh Radovsky (she/her) completed her MFA in Writing at UCSD in 2021. She received her B.A. from the Evergreen State College. Mostly she writes essays and is interested in exploring the boundaries of narrative cohesion in literary nonfiction. Her topics include medicine, objectivity, psychiatry, care, and spiritual praxis in the context of neoliberalism and ecological despair. Find her @essence_of_toast

Assistant Editor & Co-founder
Dana Fidler (she/her, they/them) is a writer, musician, and photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area, with primary research interests in queer experimental poetics and unfaithful uses of critical theory. Their work makes its home in nonlinearity, maximalism, and anaphoric and cataphoric reference, and in the process confuses poetics, essay, and critique to study matters of noise, dysphoria, cognition, sex, gender, connection, and spacetime.

Assistant Editor
Alaric López (he/they) is a poet, musician/songwriter, intermedia artist, and literary translator currently in their third year of UCSD’s MFA in Writing program. So far, their poems have appeared in the Rio Grande Review, with a poem translation in Alchemy Journal of Translation, and a bilingual edition of Chilean poet Paula Cucurella’s collection Los últimos inanes días / The last inane days (2023 DobleAEditores). His live intermedia sound/text performance Question/Dictation was featured at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso, TX. Since 2012, Alaric has recorded, released, and performed his music under the alias Monarcadia. Find them on Instagram: @monarcadia

Volunteer Reader
Anna Lynch (she/her) is a fourth-year undergraduate at UCSD. She is majoring in writing and doesn't know whether she likes fiction or poetry more. Her biggest dream is to become a published author, and will know she's made it once she has a New York Times Bestseller and someone makes a wikipedia page about her..

Advisory Board & Mentor
Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Non-Fiction Award finalist) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). Her novel Underneath (Red Hen Books) and her micro-tale collection The Mute Children (Spuyten Duyvil Press) are both forthcoming in 2021. She is the Director of the MFA in Writing at UC San Diego.