About Girls Right the World
Girls Right the World is an international literary journal advocating for girls and gender expansive writers and artists. This journal values and promotes diversity of culture and expression. The editors are students at Miss Hall’s School in Massachusetts.
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Issue Eight Editors
Stella Le
Stella Le is a junior at Miss Hall’s school, in Pittsfield, MA. She is from Vietnam and has always been interested in creative writing. Stella spends her summer taking photos and baking even though most of the cakes have failed. She also loves car rides with friends and talking nonstop about everything on those rides. Through Girl Rights The World, she found interest in reading poems that were created by girls around her age around the world.
Margot Dionne
Margot is a seventeen year old “girl” (she/they). She believes so strongly in the power of writing and is so honored to be a part of this journal. Some of her favorite books are A Little Life, The Secret Life of Bees, and The Stranger. She aspires to be a psychologist one day to help people with addiction. Thank you for your submissions!
Emilie Coziol-Desy
Emilie Coziol-Desy is a junior at Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield Massachusetts. She is from Montreal, Canada. Emilie has found a passion for analyzing and deepening her thoughts in poetry in her writing and through exploring others. She is always submerging herself in literature and is extending her reach to modern media. She also writes her own poetry in a little run-down journal that she keeps next to her bed. Emilie is very artistically inclined, cultivating most of her passion in visual arts and movements, and finds her peace in turmoil. She finds a peculiar interest in culture and the diversity of thoughts expressed in languages and writing. Emilie is very excited to work on Girls Right the World to connect with creative minds and help uplift the voices of girls worldwide.
Ivy Kay
Ivy Kay is a junior at Miss Hall's school. She is from Lawrence, Massachusetts and she is an outgoing, fun and funny person who loves to interact and get to know people. She enjoys baking, singing, reading, running, writing prose and poems and swimming. She aims to travel around the world when she gets older, learning about different people and cultures and to have a full life of adventure and fun. Ivy is grateful for the amazing opportunity to participate as an editor for Girls Right the World. She believes in strong women's representation in literature and women's voices in literature and creative art that helps contribute to social justice and the greater good of the world. She aspires to be a published author one day of poetry and possibly a novel.
Naomi Hopkins
Naomi Hopkins is a senior at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, MA. She is originally from Rabun County, GA. Naomi enjoys consuming all forms of art including music, film, theater, creative writing, and illustration. In her own time, she is mainly a writer and a banjo and alto saxophone player. Through Girls Right the World, Naomi hopes to engage with the voices and talents of girls and gender expansive youth outside of her community. She is excited to see the world through the creative perspectives of the artists submitting to Girls Right the World!
Emily Pulfer-Terino
Emily Pulfer-Terino teaches English at Miss Hall's School. A poet and writer, she is the faculty founder and support for the editors of Girls Right the World.
Issue Seven Editors
Alice Ho
Alice Ho is an international student, who is now studying at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She comes from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and she plans to study in America until graduating from college. She loves drawing, painting, designing, listening to lo-fi music, and dancing in her free time. One fun fact, she is a tarot reader (not professional so…). Girls Right The World is a great place for her to learn from women, people who are born as female and people who identify as women, and support them. Moreover, she can also improve her writing and reading skills from this project too.
Yolanda Zhang
Yolanda Zhang is from Beijing, China and has grown up immersing in literature, music, and arts. She is passionate about creative writing [especially poetry], music, philosophy, and psychology. While studying abroad, she has grown into an enthusiastic young writer, reader, vocalist, and pianist. Through Girls Right the World, she has also found her interest in using her own voice to inspire empathy among people [especially teenagers around her age], through the use of various mediums she’s interested in.
Emily Pulfer-Terino
Issue Six Editors
Rebecca Dontje
Rebecca Dontje is a senior at Miss Hall’s School and she loves reading and writing anything fiction. One of her favorite weekend activities is browsing through the shelves of small bookstores with a coffee in hand. She loves car rides with friends that have no set destination and at night lays on the tennis courts at school looking at the stars. In the summer you can find her swimming and finding new places in her hometown. She enjoys having conversations about the universe and the reason for human existence. Her goal in life is to publish not only her own work but works of others that are inclusive and break the mold.
Alice Ho
Alice Ho is an international student, who is now studying at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She comes from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and she plans to study in America until graduating from college. She loves drawing, painting, designing, listening to lo-fi music, and dancing in her free time. One fun fact, she is a tarot reader (not professional so…). Girls Right The World is a great place for her to learn from women, people who are born as female and people who identify as women, and support them. Moreover, she can also improve her writing and reading skills from this project too.
Yolanda Zhang
Yolanda Zhang is a junior at Miss Hall’s School, who is dedicated and industrious. She is from Beijing, China and has grown up immersing in literature, music, and arts. She is passionate about creative writing [especially poetry], music, philosophy, and psychology. While studying abroad, she has grown into an enthusiastic young writer, reader, vocalist, and pianist. Through Girls Right the World, she has also found her interest in using her own voice to inspire empathy among people [especially teenagers around her age], through the use of various mediums she’s interested in.
Emily Pulfer-Terino
Issue Five Editors
Paige Wright
Paige Wright is a senior at Miss Hall’s from Pittsfield, Mass. Paige spent her summer reading, journaling, and taking way too many pictures on her film and polaroid cameras. She is a passionate curator and can often be found redecorating her room with the abundance of art she collects. She is so excited to be back at Girls Right the World as an Executive Student Editor! She is so grateful for the opportunity to learn about all the amazing things people are writing about and read about all the extraordinary female identifying people that submit!
Phuong Tran
Phuong Tran is an international student who studies in a boarding school in Massachusetts. Writings that dive deeper into new concepts, requiring creativity and imagination, and listening to stories always fascinate her. She also loves traveling and her dream is to travel around the world one day.
Jiho Shin
Jiho Shin is an ambitious and diligent high school senior situated in Massachusetts. She is another Executive Editor for GRTW. She is originally from a cozy suburban city in South Korea named Seongnam. She is constantly flowing between a multitude of personas and recording my stream of consciousness bilingually ─ and increasingly trilingually. She finds immense joy in creating and leading an adventurous life across oceans and continents; she is determined to continue exploring different parts of the globe once our world heals from the current pandemic. She would like to grow into a perpetual learner, a relentless purpose-seeker, and a fearless dream-chaser. Education is a crucial component of all her endeavors that is guaranteed to propel her to the direction of love and hope.
Kathleen Nguyen
Kathleen Nguyen is an enthusiastic and curious high school junior based in Massachusetts. She is from the bustling city of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam. She is always eager to learn more about the world around her by closely observing phenomena and creatively tweaking objects around her. She finds joy in collaging, creating doodles and illustrations to decorate her journal, and capturing small moments of joy with her camera. From time to time, she could also be found following her train of thoughts during long late-night conversations with her friends and family. With new ideas and knowledge that she has gained during her years abroad, she aspires to take action and bring positive changes to the lives of communities in need of her home country.
Hava Methe
Hava Methe is a junior at Miss Hall’s. She is 16 and from Lee, Ma. She loves reading and writing, especially creative writing. She also plays softball, which also happens to be her favorite sport. Hava also loves spending time with her friends and family. She wants to spend her years after high school traveling the world and exploring the nature around her. She is excited to read all the submissions and learn about so many new people from around the world.
Ruby McDonald
Ruby McDonald is a junior at Miss Halls School. She is from Chatham, a small town in New York state. She enjoys listening to music, baking and drawing. She loves to spend time with her older siblings and friends. Ruby loves learning and exploring the world around her. She is so grateful for this opportunity to work with Girls Write the World, and is excited to learn from female identifying people from around the world!
Olivia Kick
Olivia Kick is a junior at Miss Hall’s School. She is from Dalton, MA and she loves to dance. Her hobbies are knitting, baking, listening to music on vinyl, reading and writing (no she is not a grandmother.) Olivia can often be found daydreaming-- whether it’s about traveling the world or imagining herself in a fictional universe, she loves using her imagination. As a libra, Olivia craves balance and justice. Girls Right the World is a great opportunity for her to learn from others’ stories to become a better advocate and ally in the world.
Sundara Hesse
Sundara Hesse is a junior at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She is from Chatham, New York and is an outgoing, friendly person who loves to meet new people. She enjoys playing soccer, making art, writing poems and traveling. Sundara hopes to spend lots of time exploring new places and cultures around the world. She is very interested in hearing the voices of young women/people across all diversities and is grateful for the opportunity to do so with Girls Right The World. She has many aspirations and strong interests but one of her favorite things to do is spend a weekend with her best friends and stay up late talking, watching tv, listening to music and forgetting in the moment about the next day.
Hazel Grallert
Hazel Grallert is a senior at MHS this year, she uses she/her/hers pronouns. She is from Cummington, MA. This is her second year working on GRTW, this year as an Executive Editor. She is an artist in some different fields including; writing, ceramics, and painting. She likes to spend time outside in her hammock reading or napping. She is an avid reader, and she dabbles in the divine arts as well identifying herself as a sibyl, the British Dictionary Definition is, (in ancient Greece and Rome) any of a number of women believed to be oracles or prophetesses. Hazel is very grateful for the opportunity to work on GRTW for a second time.
Kathryn Barrett
Kathryn Barrett is an MHS junior from Sandisfield Massachusetts.
Emily Pulfer-Terino
Issue Four Editors
Muhiim Ali
Hazel Grallert
Jiho Shin
Paige Wright
Emily Pulfer-Terino
Issue Three Editors
Evelyn
Evelyn is a junior at Miss Halls and is from Irvington, New Jersey. She loves creating and consuming art, in all forms, and has a deep love of fantasy, sci-fi, and anime. She is a Marvel fan, and will justify her love for Storm from the X-Men if need be; however, the character she most relates to is Raven from the Teen Titans, who’s cynical attitude and passion for reading she’s always felt kindred with. Evelyn hopes to study Studio Art in college, and maybe become a comic book artist.
Maggie Zhang
Matilda
Serena (Rea) Rice
Issue Two Editors
Lillian Climo
Stephanie Do
Faia Kronick
Michela Laurin
Issue One Editors
Alicia Bravo
Alicia Bravo is a junior at Miss Hall’s School. She is from Florida and is a self-proclaimed professional nerd. She enjoys reading, rainy days, vintage jewelry and too much honey in her coffee. Her writing is inspired by everything she feels and everything she wishes she felt.
Anna Ngo
Anna Ngo is a junior at Miss Hall’s School. She is from Vietnam. Her hobbies are reading, writing, painting nails and watching movies. This project is important for her because she wants to share her love for literature with everyone around the world.