Xinyu Ding is an illustrator and painter born in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, and now a Toronto-based freelance illustrator. She is a 2019 graduate student from Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto. Most of her work is inspired by daily life and daydreaming. Watercolor and digital painting are two mediums she mostly likes to use. To view more of her work, visit her website dingxinyu.art
The Shores of Miami
Written by Lucy Szerminski, Grade 7
Cover illustration by Xinyu Ding
Starving and desperate for freedom, young Yanara risks everything to flee Cuba on a makeshift raft. In the face of oppression and an unrelenting sea determined to stop their progress, Yanara’s journey takes us on a wildly visceral ride through open waters. Her journey shows just how powerful human’s will can be when faced with only two options: living or dying.
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Lucy Szerminski was born in Barrie, Ontario and soon developed a wide variety of interests. The first known thing that she wrote was a note reading, “Lucy dosint wont eny woder.” Her first inspiration to write was the Harry Potter series at seven years old, which she then incessantly reread over and over again in different orders. In her spare time, Lucy enjoys reading, writing, rock climbing, thoroughly searching beaches for shells and rocks, telling people why the company Nike is called Nike and talking to herself.