Wenting Li

“The Future” illustrations, starting

“A lot of the essays in this issue take a hopeful view, so I tried to match their tone. I thought the authors’ optimism was interesting, since, as a twenty-three-year-old, my generation tends to be cynical about the future. Maybe it’s just me: I always think the apocalypse is around the corner.” Wenting Li has had her work published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Quill & Quire.