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Our editorial team has been working closely with our Issue 17 contributors to bring their pieces to life.
At the Seventh Wave, our annual magazine is at the heart of everything we do, which means our editorial team is the heartbeat that keeps it thrumming. Beginning in 2020, we expanded our team from a core group of three to a larger team of 12; since then, we’ve brought on numerous past contributors to serve as editors for the magazine, a tradition that we see as a way for writers and artists to keep paying it forward.
For Issue 17: The Cost of Waiting, we enlisted the help of our brilliant TSW editors to help us select, edit, and nurture each piece toward publication. Our editorial process is an intimate one: our nine editors spent a total of three months working with their contributors to help the work become the best version of itself. Ahead of the launch of our latest issue, then, we wanted to take a moment to say “thank you!” to our incredible editorial team, who poured so much attention and care into these pieces to bring them out into the world.
You can learn a little more about each editor below.
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![Briana Gwin](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/bgwin_staff.jpg?x50507)
Briana Gwin
![Emilie Menzel](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/emenzel_staff2.jpg?x50507)
Emilie Menzel
![Stuti Pachisia](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/spachisia.jpg?x50507)
Stuti Pachisia
![Elizabeth Upshur](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/eupshur_staff.jpg?x50507)
Elizabeth Upshur
![Jules Chung](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/jchung.jpg?x50507)
Jules Chung
![Ivy Raff](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/iraff.jpg?x50507)
Ivy Raff
![Maria Picone](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/mpicone.jpg?x50507)
Maria Picone
![Maya Garcia Fisher](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/mgarcia.jpg?x50507)
Maya Garcia Fisher
![Jerica Taylor](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/jtaylor.jpg?x50507)
Jerica Taylor
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Issue 17: The Cost of Waiting will launch on Wednesday, June 5, with spotlights on each of our 16 contributors all throughout the coming days. If you are a past contributor interested in joining our editorial team, feel free to reach out to us at info@seventhwavemag.com for more information.
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