Pauline Paranikas is an Executive Editor for Polyphony Lit and Assistant Editor in Chief for Voices from Chicago, Illinois. She’s a member of Walter Payton’s Class of 2021, where she debates and tutors. When she first joined Polyphony, she read a copy of the magazine and promptly freaked out because everything seemed impossibly complicated and existentially angsty, but eventually got over her original hesitations. When she’s not prepping for debate, staving off the endless pile of homework, or working on a Polyphony submission, she is usually reading, listening to a musical, baking, or binge watching (The Office, Parks and Rec, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine are current favorites).