shophia, blog Writer
Sophia is a Blog Writer for Darpa. Literary Magazine from Minnesota, USA. She has a passion for creative writing, and she’s currently founder and editor-in-chief for The Pre-Med Gazette, an editor for DICED literary magazine and the Alexandrian Review, and a staff writer for Equinox literary magazine. When she’s not writing, she loves reading, listening to music, and playing violin.
anna, blog writer
Anna studied film and English at the University of Vermont, where she got her bachelor’s degree this past Spring. She lives there with her friends and family.
elizabeth, staff writer and editor
Elizabeth Barnett is a writer from California who gathers her inspiration from nature and her family. She loves reading and listening to music when she can, and she hopes to write a bestselling novel one day.
amrutha, editor and part of the content crew
to concise amrutha in a few words, as she would say, is very whack having a notorious reputation for loving frogs, amrutha is also a kathak dancer, a psychology student and occasional yapster. being a thorough-bred child of the internet she would give her life to fleetwood mac and bts on any ordinary day, if there’s anyone you need to call for maggi at 3 am in the woods, she’s it.
naveera, designer
arianna, staff writer
Naveera Waqar is a bookworm with a passion for writing poetry and graphic design. Her favourite book series include the Harry Potter series, the Percy Jackson series, the Hunger Games and AGGGTM (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder) series. When she's not reading or writing, you can find her listening to Taylor Swift.
Ari is an Italian currently living in the UK, where she’s completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. She’s the author of two novels, both mystery-romances published in Italy. She enjoys reading a bit of everything, but has a particular favour for weird, unsettling fiction. Her current life aspiration is to become a cat mum.
prerna, staff writer
Prena, residing in India, is currently pursuing her law degree with great ambitions, and even greater so ideas. A book lover, coffee lover and dancer, she is passionate about a lot of things, her love for writing ranking first on that list <333.
Having been ingrained with art since childhood, you will never find her idle with absolutely nothing to do! With wild raging thoughts, innate obsession with poetry and a very passionate soul, here she is, in Darpan, as a staff writer!! Most of her writings are inspired by all the places to which she travels, books she reads, and the stories she hears from the people she meets
¿ so do look forward to them!!
sakshi, copy editor
Sakshi, a college student from India with a passion for music, poetry, writing, and reading. She loves to go out, watch the clouds, and drink coffee.
zoya, editor
A bed rotting ex-overachieving tortured poet who will definitely pull off a “dearest gentle reader” comeback one day, A zealous reader and writer from a young age, she appreciates ratu poetry and has made music her muse for over a decade.Zoya truly resonates with the essence of her name’s meaning, ‘life’, and takes each new day with a spring in her feet and enthusiasm in ner actions. she contributes her verses to the powerful play of the universe.