Meet the Teen Editorial Board
Our teen book project is developed entirely by a board of NEO teens. These teens work year round to produce the finished anthology.
Meet the Teen Editorial Board for 2020-2021
Joshua Banks
11th Grade | Cleveland Heights High School
Joshua goes to Cleveland Heights High School and is a junior. He plays golf and bowls and enjoys hanging with his friends and playing video games. He’s never really been a big fan of poetry and finds it difficult to write. He usually writes short stories, and is now set on writing a book.
Henry Campbell
9th Grade | Homeschool
This sarcastic jerk loves video games and records, and has large collections of both. He also enjoys making music on his computer, which is probably just as annoying as he is. One day, he’ll win the Nobel Prize for General Suckiness.
Jessica Chang
12th Grade | Hathaway Brown School
Jessica is a senior at Hathaway Brown who participates in student government, speech, and debate. She enjoys writing poetry, critical essays, and screenplays.
Jenna Guiher
10th Grade | Walsh Jesuit High School
Jenna Guiher has always had a passion for writing. In 8th grade she qualified and competed in the state finals Power of the Pen writing competition. This last spring, she participated in the Write About Now teen writers’ program and wrote an article that was published on Cleveland.com. Jenna is currently a sophomore at Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She enjoys swimming, surfing, and volunteering. She hopes to one day study engineering in college.
Anthony Koonce
12th GradeHomeschool / Tri-C
Anthony Koonce is a high school senior with a longtime interest in filmmaking and storytelling. In addition to writing a variety of plays, he has written for Cleveland.com and Tri-C’s student newspaper, The Voice. He also spends time creating short films and informational videos on YouTube. This is his fourth year participating in Lake Erie Ink’s book project, and he is excited to be back!
Jeremyiah Page
9th Grade | Cleveland Heights – University Heights High School
Jeremyiah draws a lot of cartoons. He also enjoys reading comics on gocomics.com. He is a freshman at Cleveland Heights – University Heights High School school.
Dev Peyrat
11th Grade | University School
Dev Peyrat is a junior at University School and a first time editor at Lake Erie Ink. When he’s not procrastinating, Dev spends his time writing, watching movies, or researching for the latest debate topic. He is currently working on a documentary as well as a variety of perpetually unfinished short stories.
Perin Romano
11th Grade | Hathaway Brown School
Perin Romano is a junior at Hathaway Brown School, and has written for both her school and camp magazine. She plays field hockey and lacrosse for her school, and is so grateful to have a season this fall. Although she goes to school in Shaker Heights, she lives on the west side, and enjoys making the long drive daily. Even though Perin is a big procrastinator with homework, she loves school nonetheless. You can always catch her watching Criminal Minds, reading a good book, or listening to her extensive record collection. She is so excited to be on the Teen Editorial Board and is ecstatic to read everyone’s submissions this year!
Halle Preneta
12th Grade | Kenston High School
Halle is a soon to be 18 year old who enjoys theatre, music, video games, and animals. She works for the blog Second Revolution as a staff writer and editor and has had works published in Purpled Palm Press’ Recording Corona, (https://www.purpledpalmpress.
Jasmine Neumann
8th Grade | Hathaway Brown
Jasmine sits down at her desk, phone in hand, ready to type up a bio. She knows it should be an easy task. It shouldn’t be very hard to write about yourself, right? As she taps on the Google Docs app, she slowly starts to realize that she has no clue what to write. She titles a document “Bio” and stares at the too small keyboard on her phone. The letters almost seem to mock her. She furrows her eyebrows as she starts typing, typos gracing her writing with an aura of messiness. After a few minutes, she finally comes to the realization that it looks like, and sounds like, the purest form of hot garbage. At this point, she might as well start throwing a fit. She doesn’t, however. Instead, she deletes the hot garbage and starts anew. This time she decides to passionately write about how trashy and utterly terrible the first draft of her bio was.
Sanjanasri Vedavyas
11th Grade | Solon High School
Sanjanasri Vedavyas is a junior at Solon High School, a bit of English nerd, an ardent lover of science, and is in a committed relationship with cookie dough ice cream. In her free time, you may find her juggling three books, watching random science videos online, or unconsciously tapping out the choreo to her newest Indian classical dance piece. This is her second year as an editor for Lake Erie Ink’s annual anthology. Her creative work has been published on Cleveland.com, through Crossword India’s national I Want To Be An Author contest, and right here through Lake Erie Ink.
Sarah Voss
11th Grade | Gilmour Academy
Sarah Voss is a junior at Gilmour Academy this year. She loves to read, write, cook, bake, and figure skate- when she can find time between her intense Netflix sessions. Sarah also loves to join clubs including her school’s Yearbook Club, Improv Club, and their writing club, JustWrite. She is super excited to be a part of Lake Erie Ink for her first year!
Zoe Zappas
10th Grade | Hathaway Brown
Zoe is a sophomore at Hathaway Brown School and is excited to join the Editorial Board for the first time this year. When she’s not in the dance studio rehearsing for an upcoming performance, you can find her cuddled up reading thriller novels (her favorite being John Fowles’ The Collector) with one of her dogs or attempting to learn one of her favorite songs on her viola, which usually doesn’t end up going well, considering that violas are neglected and it’s hard to find mainstream music written in alto clef. Although dance and homework consume the majority of her time, Zoe tries to write a little poetry here and there or at least tries to enjoy writing her required essays for school.
Interested in being a part of the board? It’s too late for this year, but come back in the summer of 2021 for information about how to join next years board!
