Meet The Staff
Editor in Chief + Blog Editor
Emelia Delaporte
Emelia is a junior pursuing dual degrees in multimedia journalism and professional & technical writing with double minors in natural resources recreation and biodiversity conservation. She isn't flexible, but boy is she good at stretching herself too thin! Outside of the Sil, she's an assistant section editor for the Collegiate Times, a marketing and communications officer for the Marching Virginians and social chair for NDA@VT. When she has time, she enjoys birding, writing poetry, backpacking and listening to live music. She's probably drinking coffee and driving right now. She's very bad at trees.
Business Manager + Photography Editor
Safyque xRichardson
Safyque is a senior majoring in Psychology and Creative Writing. Her hobbies are (but aren't limited to): staring at the wall, watching paint dry, and binging 12 hour historical epics. She also enjoys bad Scream knockoffs, writing sonnets, and 2 truths and a lie. She's super pumped for her fourth year at Silhouette and can't wait to see what we'll make together!
Design Editor
Vanny Vaquerano
Vanny is a senior majoring in Interior Design with a Visual Arts and Society minor. During her free time, she likes watching reality shows and getting her nails done. Her favorite food is chicken alfredo! She's really into discovering new art in all mediums and during the weekends, you can usually find her thrifting or looking for an excuse to hit up a hibachi restaurant :) she's excited to be a mag designer this year!
Design Editor
Sean Markle
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Social Media + Blogger
Sylvia Mack
Sylvia is a junior majoring in Communications with a minor in Sociology. She's super excited to continue on the team and stay involved on campus! Aside from being in Silhouette she loves hiking, reading, baking, listening to podcasts, and being a summer camp art director (respectively the best job in the world).
Design Editor
Alexis Walker
Alexis Walker is a freshman majoring in Graphic Design. She is looking to minor in marketing and start her own fine art brand. She previously graduated from the Governor's School for the Arts and has a passion for all things visually expressive and artistic. In her free time, she adores reading fantasy novels, hot tea, painting and traveling. She is very excited to be part of the design team for Silhouette Magazine this year!
Poetry Senior Editor
Natalie Farello
Natalie is a junior studying psychology and creative writing. They have been a writer since the fifth grade and adore the literary community at Virginia Tech. She hopes to be a licensed therapist in the future (and maybe publish a few fantasy books on the side). Natalie is excited to return to Silhouette and read some amazing poetry!
Poetry Editor
Alex Serati
Alex is a freshman studying Physics with a minor in Astronomy. In their free time they love writing -- and when they aren't trying to finish their novel, they're probably doodling, reading a book, or stargazing. This is Alex's first year on the Silhouette, but they are not new to literary magazines, and they are so excited to see all the amazing things you'll submit!
Poetry + Blog Editor
Nat Kees
Nat is a freshman studying creative writing here at Virginia Tech. Though they can often be found studying or swamped in their many, many class readings, they also enjoy playing with their pets, writing, and daydreaming with a mug of hot tea. They're very excited to be able to attend VT, and look forward to working with the Silhouette Magazine.
Poetry Editor
Peyton Ludwig
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Poetry Editor
Alyssa Trull
Alyssa is a sophomore majoring in Professional & Technical Writing and minoring in Spanish. When she's not writing poetry or working on her novel, she's either playing tennis, watching any crime drama, or playing piccolo for the Marching Virginians, Virginia Tech's marching band. She is so excited to have this opportunity because she loves writing poetry and enjoys reading others' work. She can't wait to read your submissions!
Prose Senior Editor + Blogger
Grace Whang-Daniels
Grace is a senior studying English literature, creative writing, and professional and technical writing. Her simple pleasures in life are writing short stories, hammocking, and loitering at the local library. She hopes to publish books of her own in the future. This is her second year working with Silhouette and she can't wait to see what the writers of VT are cooking up this semester.
Prose Editor
Morgan Blankenship
Morgan is a freshman student here at Tech pursuing a Creative Writing degree. Her long term goal is to be a New York Times Bestselling Author and continue to push her creativity and writing style. She has even been published in her local newspaper. She loves to write, read, play Pokémon, and watch Law & Order: SVU. She is very excited to join Silhouette this year!
Prose Editor
Aidan Mason
Aidan Mason is a sophomore majoring in Creative Writing and is once again thrilled to be a part of Silhouette. Apart from editing this mag, he has three self-published novels under his belt ("Blood and the Stars: Volume One," "Blood and the Stars: Volume Two," and "The Memory Incident"), multiple short stories published in the "10,000 Dawns" and "WARSONG: Academy 27" universes, and articles for this school's "Collegiate Times." He can either be found writing his next novel in the middle of class or wandering the night looking for a good time. Unlike most wild animals, feeding him is a very good idea.
Prose Editor
Mark Postovalov
Mark is a junior studying Economics with minors in Creative Writing and Professional and Technical Writing. He likes to read and he writes poetry, and when he's not drowning in work he's really into music production. He looks forward to all the great prose submissions!
Prose Editor
Caroline Blöm
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Senior Photography Editor, Social Media + Blogger
Will Schrant
Will Schrant is a junior majoring in BIT DSS. In his free time he enjoys doing art, watching movies, and listening to music. This is his 3rd year in Silhouette and he looks forward to seeing all the great photography submissions this school year.
Photography Editor
Renato Econa
Renato is a sophomore majoring in international studies, and this is his first semester in Silhouette. They are very excited to be working on a literary & art magazine again and to see all the new submissions! He's also an aspiring artist. They like art and photography and writing and movies and manga and video games and music and things of that nature and nature itself!
Photography Editor
Tiya Ayele
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Photography Editor
Calla Inman
Calla is a Geography major with Climate & Society and Blue Planet minors. She's got a serious obsession with picnics and being really cool. In their free time, she loves to read, listen to music, and create art!
Art Senior Editor
Greta Lunsford-Poe
Hi! Greta is a junior psychology major with minors in visual arts & society and international studies. She absolutely adores all things art! Outside of Silhouette, she spends a good chunk of her time volunteering with VT's School of Visual Arts and making her own art (@19reta on Instagram). She loves animals, curating oddly specific Spotify playlists, watching shows with friends and involving herself in a few other organizations on campus (VT Union and previously the Mind-Body Lab). Her favorite color is orange and her favorite food is banana bread. She's super stoked to be a part of Silhouette this year -- it's been a goal of hers since freshman year, and finally the pieces have fallen into place. She can't wait to make things happen this year!
Art Editor + Social Media
Anika Natarjan
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Art Editor
Gabrielle Vtipil
Gabby is a sophomore in communication and hopes to minor in religion and creative writing. She is from northern Virginia and enjoys sewing and reading in her free time.
Art Editor + Archives Project
Carl Coronado
Carl is a freshman who is currently Undecided, but (hopefully) plans to switch into Studio Art this fall. Aside from being a multimedia artist, you can usually find them writing, going on long walks, or immersing themselves in numerous archives, whether it be old contemporary art catalogues or obscure media on the internet. Please feel free to ask them about their cat Sammy or the BlazBlue series. They're excited to be working with Silhouette this year!
Blog Editor
Phoebe Hayashi
Phoebe is a junior majoring in Professional and Technical Writing. She hopes to be an editor someday, but isn't sure what she wants to edit (anything, really). In her free time, you can find her on her computer, reading manga or fantasy books.
Blog Editor
Kate Robbi
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Blogger
Jordyn Styles
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Social Media
Riya Kanwar
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