Meet the Feels Blind Editorial Team

  • Lindsay A. Chudzik

    Editor in Chief Lindsay A. Chudzik (she/her/hers) grew up just outside of Philadelphia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Anti-heroin Chic, The Chiron Review, Clementine Unbound, Defenestration, Dogwood, FLAR, Ghost Town, Haunted Waters Press, Map Literary, Pembroke Magazine, Parhelion Literary, and Silver Needle Press, among others. Her short stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and her creative nonfiction has been anthologized. Her debut YA novel, The Most Cake, will hit shelves in time for summer 2023.

    After serving as an Associate Professor of Writing for nearly a decade, she moved to Charm City to accept a position as the Director of Service-Learning and Community Engagement at a Baltimore university. She’s also a recent recipient of a Gulf-South Summit Award for excellence in community-engaged teaching and the former Assistant Director at RVA Lit Walk.

    When Lindsay is not eating pizza or listening to punk records, she's busy working on her second YA novel and querying her short story collection, Check 'Yes' If You Like Us. Social justice is her love language. 

  • Emily Kelly

    Managing Editor Emily Kelly moved to Richmond to go to school and decided it was the place she'd call home.

    After graduating from VCU with a BA in English, she found a creative outlet in Feels Blind. A fan of female stories across all genres, Emily hopes to one day create her own television show. Favorite storytellers include Mindy Kaling, Kae Tempest, and Regina Spektor.

Meet the Feels Blind Literary Interns

  • Kayla Aldrich, Senior Editor

    Kayla grew up in Prince George, Virginia and graduated from VCU with a BA in English in 2020. Currently, she’s a Program Specialist at Read to Them, an RVA-based non-profit dedicated to early childhood literacy.

    Her writing has appeared in West Trade Review, Variant Literature, Pwatem Literary Journal, Emerge Literary Journal, and others. She is querying her first novel, Halos & Blades, and actively drafting her second novel, The Soft Animal.

    Kayla’s hobbies include being horribly aware of her excessive use of semicolons, weeping over the fumbled arcs of her favorite characters, and buying books she won’t read for the next six months.

  • Delaney Editor, Senior Intern

    Delaney grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from VCU in 2019 and just completed George Mason University's MFA program with a Fiction concentration.

    Her work has been published/is forthcoming in Crab Fat Magazine, From Whispers to Roars, Cleaning Up Glitter Literary Journal, Gravitas Magazine, Bottom Shelf Whiskey, Coffin Bell Journal, Defunkt Magazine, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Lunch Ticket.

    A few of her many literary inspirations are Alice Walker, James Howe, Carmen Maria Machado, and Neil Gaiman.

    When Delaney is not watching every Colin Firth movie ever made or hoarding lipstick like a really lame dragon, she is exploring the urban fantasy genre, finding ways to merge horror and humor, and writing run-on sentences.

  • Cailin Bownas, Intern

    Cailin is a recent graduate from VCU, now working on her M.A. in English at UVA. She’s incredibly passionate about depicting accurate women in her writing—accurate meaning diverse and all over the place! Switching up reader perspectives and portraying women of different personalities and archetypes is important to her goal of breaking stiff literary molds. Her favorite genres to read and write are Fantasy and Contemporary Fiction.

    Currently, Cailin is working on her graduate research and polishing a few manuscripts. Lots of her free time is spent playing Dragon Age and Skyrim, rock-climbing, or hiking and camping with her boyfriend.

    Some of Cailin’s other hobbies are language learning, weapons crafting, and making loads of banana bread.

  • Carole Skrbin, Intern

    Carole graduated from VCU with a BA in English and a Creative Writing minor. She works as a professional writing tutor and loves working with students. She hopes to work in education in the future, but she also plans to pursue a degree in creative writing.

    In her free time, Carole tries to keep her plants alive, work on her novel, and play far too many video games.

  • Julia Weichlein, Intern

    Julia is a student at VCU, studying Art History with a minor in Creative Writing. She’s especially interested in depictions of women and the influence of literature on art.

    She is currently researching the femme fatale trope during the Art Nouveau movement, studying how psychology, visual art, and the written word created the archetype of the dangerous woman.

    Within her writing, Julia hopes to deconstruct the male gaze and center her stories on complex female characters. A few of her literary inspirations include Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, Junot Diaz, and Virginia Woolf.

    When Julia is not busy concocting half-baked book ideas, she can be found gushing over cute animal instagrams, hoarding candles of all shapes and sizes, or perfecting her lemon scone recipe.

  • Annabelle Starr, Design Intern

    Annabelle is an artist based in Richmond, Virginia. After graduating as valedictorian from Prince George High School, she is currently pursuing her BFA in painting & printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. Follow her on Instagram at @starrcadium to see more of her work, professional and otherwise.

  • Atieh Zanganeh, Design Intern

    Atieh is a student at VCU, working towards majoring in communication arts and illustration. Her passion for books and compelling story telling has also lead her to consider a minor in creative writing. She specially enjoys studio ghibli movies and exploring stories/character designs of powerful women. She is looking forward to a career in Animation, mostly character design, or working as a game designer. Other than creating art, her hobbies include hoarding books, getting way too geeked about stellar animation, watching anime, and trying very hard to be more public with her art.