Keana Aguila Labra
Co-Editor in Chief, Founder
Keana Aguila Labra (they/them/she/her) is a Cebuana Tagalog Filipinx genre- and genderfluid poet, editor, and newsletter writer in diaspora residing on stolen Ohlone Tamyen land. She works to provide a safe literary space for underserved and underrepresented communities as co-Editor-in-Chief of literary magazine, Marías at Sampaguitas and co-Founder of the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ focused independent publishing house, Sampaguita Press. She is the author of the chapbooks, No Saints (Lazy Adventurer Publishing, 2020) and Mohilak (Fahmidan Co. & Publishing, 2021) and Kanunay (Self-Published, 2022).
Kelly Ritter
Co-Editor in Chief
Kelly Ritter (she/they) is an Indianapolis girlie trying to read as many books as she can. She graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. You can find Kelly on Instagram, Twitter, & TikTok @KellyLovesLit
Noreen Ocampo
Editor
Noreen Ocampo (she/her) is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. She is the author of two chapbooks, including There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi (Porkbelly Press, 2025) and Not Flowers (Variant Lit, 2022), and her poems also appear in Frontier Poetry, Poetry Northwest, the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Gravy, and elsewhere. She is grateful to have received scholarships and support from Tin House / the McCormack Writing Center, Monson Arts, the Longleaf Writers Conference, and the University of Mississippi, where she earned her MFA. She is at work on her first full-length collection of poems.
David Anderson
Operations Coordinator
David Anderson (he/him) is an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is an aerospace engineer living and working on the Gabrielino, Tongva, Kizh land also known as Los Angeles. He is a mixed-race person of Native American and European ancestry, on a personal decolonization journey to reconnect with and honor his Yaqui, Hopi, Tongva and Chumash roots.
Belana (Lana) Labra
Administrative, Publishing, & Social Media Coordinator
Lana Labra (she/they) is a freelance graphic designer, digital and creative marketer, and is an Administrative, Publishing, & Social Media Coordinator at Marías at Sampaguitas. She is a graduate from the University of San Diego, holding a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and minor in Accounting. She is currently back in school purusing UX/UI Design.
Eric Asuncion
Social Media Coordinator
Eric Asuncion (he/him) is a pop culture essayist, comic writer, and Social Media Coordinator of Marías at Sampaguitas and Sampaguita Press. He is the co-director of the BuliLit Zine issue, Nostalgia is in the Heart, which is forthcoming Fall 2022. He is a graduate from San José State University, holding a Bachelor’s degree in English. His work may be found in the CAMP: glitter in our eyes issue published by Marías at Sampaguitas. As a writer and creative, he caters to the audience with a keen attention to detail, as well as the ability to use insight to simplify otherwise more complex ideas.
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