MEET THE TEAM
MEET THE TEAM
Big Straw Magazine is created for students, by students.
Dharma Trang
Co-Editor in Chief (Backup Dancer)
Dharma is a junior studying economics with a minor in creative writing. She loves dancing and is current recovering from her addiction to romance novels by drowning herself in 500-page fantasy novels.
Phyllis Feng
Co-Editor in Chief (Rap God)
Phyllis is a senior studying Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction. She enjoys making fun of BookTok, telling the most unhinged stories, and torturing herself by looking at available cats to adopt.
Cameron Wu
Co-Editor in Chief (Super Senior)
Cami is a senior studying Information Systems. She enjoys video games, big cats, the harpsichord, and all things pirate. Her favorite book is, unsurprisingly, Moby Dick.
Andrew Hung
Writer, Designer, Photographer
Andrew is a junior studying Mechanical Engineering, He is from Tustin, California. In his free time, he enjoys playing the guitar, cooking, and going to the gym, and is currently obsessed with Hades 2.
Namya Kathuria
Writer, Designer, Web Design (#1 P1ece)
Mya is a Statistics & Data Science major with a concentration in Physics. She loves writing poetry, short fiction, and musical works, and can usually be found in bed with a mystery novel, with a brown sugar boba at a cafe, or dancing to k-pop in the studio.
Santiago Salazar
Artist, Designer (Lil Guy)
Santi is senior in the BXA program, studying Fine Arts and Cognitive Science. His main hobbies are artmaking, discovering new music, and maxing out his credit card at restaurants and cafes around Pittsburgh.
Marcus Ho
Writer (Anarcho-Origamist)
Marcus is a sophomore studying chemistry who writes about whatever the hell interests him. In his free time, he enjoys musical theater, blogging about origami, and listening to obscure 20th-century classical music.
Munin Jitsajjapong
Artist, Designer
Munin is a freshman in the BHA program, studying Fine Arts with a concentration in Humanities. She enjoys digital illustration, binge-reading webtoons and manga, and listening to psychological thriller podcasts. She also loves facetiming her dog in Thailand and going on runs.
Luna Yu
Writer, Artist
Luna is a freshman in the BHA program studying International Relations, Political Science & Fine Arts. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, including R&B and K-pop, as well as watching anime, reading manga, and spending money on random blind boxes.
Meabyn Bie
Writer, Designer
Meabyn is a freshman studying creative writing and is currently trying to cobble together an erasure poetry project for Big Straw. She is quite frankly running out of hobbies and would love suggestions :)
