*Heeseo Lee, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief
Heeseo (Kay) Lee is a freshmen attending Columbia University studying English. She is a burgeoning young poet and writer who has attended the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and been recognized by the Scholastics Art and Writing Awards. When she is not busy writing, she enjoys exploring neurobiological phenomena and performing taekwondo routines.
*Eva Yu, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief
Eva Yu is a senior at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. She was originally born in Beijing, but now lives in the greater Boston area. She attended Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and Kenyon Young Writers’ Workshop. In her free time, she enjoys drawing, painting, reading, and playing video games.
*The Beginnings of the Anthology*
The two met at a workshop in the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio pertaining to Friendships in Fiction. After participating in the workshop, they found mutual interests in works of art relating to platonic relationships, and the astounding lack of such works in the creative field.
The Zinnia Anthology Project was founded in order to bring more recognition to overlooked topics in artistic mediums including the non-romantic types of love featured in our very first issue.
