Issue Forty-Eight: Emily Hsu - The Adroit Journal

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Emily Hsu, 17, a junior at John P. Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey, is an ardent artist and poet. She aspires to yoke art with nature, poetry, architecture, and physics to enact powerful dialogues across boundaries. Her artworks have been recognized at national level by Congressional Art Competition, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Net Smith, Endangered Species, Junior Duck Stamp, and State Fish Art Contests. Her “Falling Up” is now displayed in the US Capitol’s Cannon Tunnel in Washington D.C. Her “Thirst” has been forever collected by the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Pennsylvania. At John P. Stevens High School, Emily is the President of the National Art Honor Society; the Art Editor of The Hawkeye newspaper; the Art Editor and staff writer for the INK! Literary Magazine; a photographer for the Regalis Yearbook Club; and a poet in Slam Poetry Club; a member of Latin Club and Greenhouse Club. Beyond school, she also attended the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop, Interlochen Performance Poetry, Columbia University’s Creative Writing, Smith College’s Sustainable Futures, and Carnegie Mellon’s Architecture Program. She adores nature, loves adventures, explores cultures, and wishes to make an impact with her brush, pen, and voice.