Behind All the Chaos

Akhila Bandlora, a sophomore at BASIS Phoenix, resides in Arizona. She has been awarded eighteen times regionally through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, where she serves as co-president of her local affiliate. A recipient of Bowseat’s Gold Award for Poetry and an honorable mention from Nancy Thorp’s Poetry Contest, her work is published or forthcoming in Best Teen Writing of Arizona, fromthebowseat, Rising Phoenix Press, JUST POETRY!!!, and Crab Fat Magazine.  Currently, she serves as a COUNTERCLOCK Art Reader.