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About this Issue
This issue of elementia was published in 2017 and is dedicated to artist and writer Gene Luen Yang, and to the theme of conflicting identity.
As the editors of issue xvi note, “Through his books like American Born Chinese, Mr. Yang inspires us to explore our own complexities, including those parts of our identities that can seem contradictory. Mr. Yang, we thank you and we honor you for showing us how to incorporate our multifaceted identities on the page, and for encouraging us to seek out all the voices whose identities and experiences contribute to the richly complicated mosaic of humanity.”
Issue xiv includes 70 pieces of writing and 73 pieces of art. The editorial committee for the fourteenth issue consisted of teen selectors and designers Allyssa Herlein and Reid Guemmer, teen designers Ellie Grever and Helen Wheatley, and teen writing selectors Alexandra Miller, Ali Robinson, Emerson Debasio, Eunice Lee, Isabel Nee, Romila Santra and Rylee Wilson, as well as Library staff editors Kate McNair, Becca Carleton, Cassidy Coles and Cassandra Gillig, and art director Jennifer Taylor.