The HyeBred Team

 
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Rafaella Safarian

Founder, Editor-in-Chief

Rafaella is a lawyer by day and a writer by night. A graduate in English creative writing, she created HyeBred Magazine to provide an encouraging space for creative Armenians to showcase their work. In 2017, Rafaella won a Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Award for her fiction and has since been a finalist for a 2020 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award. Her work has been published in Tin Can Literary Review and Emerald City.

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John Danho

Poetry Editor

John Danho is an English Master’s graduate from Cal Poly Pomona, using the knowledge he’s gained there to teach the next generation of students and citizens. When he isn’t working for money, he’s working for pleasure composing prose and poetry. He has several publications with past HyeBred issues and also acts as Managing Editor of Pomona Valley Review. He is a lover of all things Dungeons and Dragons and has an unhealthy obsession with sushi! “Very excited to be on the HyeBred team!”

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Gayane Iskandaryan

Fiction/Nonfiction editor

Gayane is a proud resident of Glendale, California. She is a first-generation Armenian-American, and has a Bachelors degree in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Gayane is incredibly passionate about Armenian history and culture, and hopes to uplift and honor Armenians in homeland and diaspora!