WHO WE ARE
Entre refers to a state of being, a space that exists between positions or identities (be it race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, etc.) Many queer, Latina/o/x/e individuals (though not exclusively) may find themselves residing in this space, a type of "nepantla" (the Náhuatl word for "land between") in which they may struggle to reconcile their inbetweeness with a modern/colonial world that is hyper-fixated on labels and parameters surrounding identity.
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Entre Magazine is a communal platform for the residents of this unstable, transformative between to share their voices and their experiences through their art; it is a response to the need within the greater literary and academic communities to bring visibility to these artists, to empower them to express their hybridity and fluidity with the world (yes, we promote diversity, equity, and inclusion!)
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Entre Magazine's premiere issue launched on 5 May 2024, and will now be releasing biannually (a submission period in the fall for a spring release, and a submission period in the spring for a subsequent fall release). If you are interested in submitting your work to be considered for Entre, we encourage you to visit our submissions page! While the magazine is primarily for queer and/or Latina/o/x/e artists, we accept works from all artists whose works interrogate and explore the inbetweenness of identity.
RAY PÁRAMO | FOUNDING EDITOR, LEAD DESIGNER
Ray Páramo (he/him) is a gay Mexican-American writer from Placentia, California. He graduated with his MA in English from CSU Long Beach in 2024, where he was also a Managing Editor for Watermark Journal. In addition to working full-time in the Learning & Development field, he has served as a writing specialist at community colleges in the Los Angeles area. He founded Entre to amplify the voices of queer Latina/o/x/e artists in a cultural/political climate that intends to silence those voices; he hopes that Entre will contribute to our furthered understanding and deconstruction of the colonial ideas of identity.
STEVEN VALENZUELA | POETRY EDITOR
Steven Valenzuela is a Mexican-American writer from Long Beach, California. His work has appeared in Azahares Literary Magazine, Entre: Magazine of the Arts, and elsewhere. A 2025 Ancinas Scholarship recipient, he is an alumnus of the Community of Writers Summer Workshop in Olympic Valley. He holds an MFA from UC Davis, where he was awarded the Deirdre Hackett Endowment for Graduate Experiential Learning Fellowship. He is a former Publicist and Editorial Assistant for Huizache Magazine, and currently serves as Poetry Editor for Entre.