Zinnia Hansen (Yellow Sweater), above, is a poet and essayist from the Pacific Northwest. She will graduate from the University of Washington with degrees in Classics and History in autumn 2025. Zinnia was the 2021-2022 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate, and is the author of Spikenard, 2022, Poetry NW Editions. She is a staff writer at the UW Daily where she published a column, Agora, exploring the experience of reading Plato’s dialogues as a modern college student. Her work has been published in various magazines and online publications including Rattle Magazine, Call Center Collective, and Circulo de Poesia. Zinnia joined Young Writers Project when she was a high school student looking for an online writing community. This is her fourth year as a YWP alumni advisor.

Sam Aikman (Love to write) is a fourth-year student of literature at Bard College in Berlin, Germany. She has been involved with YWP since 2017, when she joined the site to share her poetry and connect with other writers of her age. As an alumni advisor, she has created a series of online poetry workshops, climate change challenges for The Tomorrow Project, and writing and art resource pages. Now in her second year as an alumni advisor, Sam is excited to remain part of the YWP community, which largely inspired her to pursue writing as both a passion and a career.

Charlotte Dodds (charvermont) is a junior at University of Vermont's Patrick Leahy Honors College with a double major in English and economics. This is her first year as a YWP alumni advisor. Charlotte says, "I've been involved with Young Writers Project since I was 10 or 11 years old, and the community here has always meant a lot to me. I'm so excited to be an alumni advisor this year and continue working with YWP after my internship over the summer. Keep an eye out for my upcoming reading lists, full of book reviews, which you might have seen over the past few years. Looking forward to everyone's creativity!"