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Executive Leadership Board

The Executive Leadership Board guides the direction and operations of the Incognito Press.

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Executive Director & Instagram Director, Social Media Department 

Stephanie Olvido

Stephanie Olvido (she/they) is the founder and Executive Director of the Incognito Press. She resides in Sacramento, California. Stephanie has a background in journalism and writing, leading her school's newspaper and recieving numerous state, national, and international awards for her writing.

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Editor-in-Chief, Blog Department

Faye Allego Abbas

Faye Allego (she/her) is a Filipino-Iraqi journalist and poet born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and raised in Marikina, Metro Manila. Taking inspiration from her late grandfather's works, her various works include Music History Deep-Dives on her Substack, Album Reviews for The Flying Lugaw, Photography featured on i-D Magazine, Poetry, and Essays on grief.

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Blog Staff 

The Blog Staff and Editor-in-Chief make up the Incognito Press' Blog Department. Blog Staff members are writers, editors, or both.

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Regular Staff Writer & Editor

Udita Mukherjee (she/they)

Udita is an Indian author currently residing in London. In their free time, they will either be gushing over dogs, sobbing through an animated movie or reading anything that transports them away from reality. She uses writing as an escape and is a passionate advocate for DEI.

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Regular Staff Writer

Carmen (they/them)

Writer/poet, just a wannabe connoisseur of literature and cinema. 

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Regular Staff Editor

Greg (he/him)

G.R. Tomaini is a First-Generation LGBTQ Federal McNair Scholar, an Artist, Poet, Theologian, and Systematic Philosopher, as well as an author of ten books — three philosophical monographs as well as seven volumes of poetry — who graduated with a Master’s degree in Systematic Philosophical Theology from Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan; he earned a Bachelors in Philosophy from the formidable Rutgers — New Brunswick Philosophy department, during such time as he audited twenty-five graduate seminars, enrolled in six, and was, generally speaking, a protégé of Drucilla Cornell.

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    Regular Staff Writer 

    Aarani Diana (she/her)

    Aarani Diana is a writer and poet from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Erato, Orange Blush Zine, and Hot Pot Magazine, and is forthcoming in various publications. She is a staff writer for Love Letters and the Incognito Press. She also publishes her own blog, sparkoftheflames.com.

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    Regular Staff Writer

    Faye Allego (she/her)

    Faye Allego  is a Filipino-Iraqi journalist and poet born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and raised in Marikina, Metro Manila. Taking inspiration from her late grandfather's works, her various works include Music History Deep-Dives on her Substack, Album Reviews for The Flying Lugaw, Photography featured on i-D Magazine, Poetry, and Essays on grief.

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    Guest Staff Writer

    Stephen Lee Naish (he/him)

    Stephen Lee Naish is a writer, artist, and the author of six books of non-fiction, notably, Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper (AUP), Riffs and Meaning (HeadPress), and Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Newstar Books). His work has appeared in Aquarium Drunkard, Film International, Sublation Magazine, The Quietus, Empty Mirror, Dirty Movies, Albumism, and Merion West. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. 

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    Regular Staff Editor

    A. Ni 

    Angelina Ni is a Chinese American writer based in Fremont, California with a special love for editing. They play three musical instruments and are currently working on a novel. You can find their poetry published in an anthology, Shades of the Night, by Writer's Pocket.

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    Regular Staff Editor

    Amber Spalding

    Amber is a Poetry and Prose Editor for The Incognito Press. She currently resides in Suffolk, UK, and has just completed her MA in Creative and Critical Writing. As a keen storyteller, Amber enjoys all forms of writing, but gravitates towards experimental nature writing, familial narratives, and poetry. 

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    Revika Sangamita 

    Revika Sangamita (she/they) is weaving her portrait of being a queer poet, storyteller and artist while residing amidst New Delhi, India. When not illustrating her characters on the corners of the textbooks, they are connecting meanings and feeding her curiosity of anything & everything. From writing diaries, she started embracing her mental health issues, healing, hope, grief and all kinds of love through poetry. Along with releasing her debut poetry chapbook 'Grief and Other Flowers' (Writer's Pocket, 2023), their work has been featured in Live Wire India, Bloom Magazine, Graveyard Zine, Outlander Zine, Evoke & Echo Literary Magazine, Querencia Press, The Global Youth Review and several anthologies. Find them @revikasangamita on Instagram and itsrevika@gmail.com on Gmail. 

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      Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi (he/him)

      Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi is an editor at the incognito press. He is a veterinary medicine student at, university of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has some poems published in the Poet's Choice, Echo Magazine, and more.

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      Regular Staff Writer & Editor

      Willow (she/her)

      Willow Kang Liew Bei ('willow' is the english translation of my Chinese name), is a staff writer and editor. She enjoys listening to music and reading. Currently, her favorite singer is Gracie Abrams. In school, her favorite (but not best) subjects are history and mathematics.

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      Guest Staff Editor

      Samantha Ng (she/her)

      Samantha is a Hong Kong student and the editor in chief at Aôthen Magazine. For the past 7 years, she have been writing poetry and exploring all sorts of literature, taking part in poetry competitions, creative writing contests, and literary magazines. In particular, she enjoys reading and writing hybrid poetry.

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      Regular Staff Writer & Editor

      Harley Nguyen (he/him)

      Harley Nguyen is a Vietnamese American poet from the DMV. His writing interests include ethnic contemporary poetry, queer/trans studies, and pop culture. He primarily writes music reviews and poetry.

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