Meet The Team
The Wells Street Journal Issue 26 Team Leads
Madeline Townsend
Co-Editor In Chief
Madeline Townsend is pursuing her Creative Writing MA with hopes of finishing her fantasy novel. She hopes to continue her education for her doctorate to become a university professor in fantasy literature and a fantasy author.
Julia Jorgensen
Co-Editor In Chief
Julia Jorgensen is an American author, but only
admits to it under duress. She is from Colorado, but
has lived in Chicago and Oregon, and is now
residing in London with her partner and cat.
Courtney Risner
Marketing Lead
Courtney Risner is a creative from Chicago who relocated to London to pursue her MA in Professional Writing. With a background in advertising, copywriting, journalism, and political science, she aspires to work in publishing and hopes to one day become a published fiction and fantasy author.
Elle Leavoy
Design Lead
Elle Leavoy is a Toronto-born writer based in London. Her stories drift between romance and self-discovery, reflecting on social issues and personal struggles that shape the human experience. Through her work, she examines how relationships and individual choices intersect. Her focus is on creating narratives that are intimate and socially aware.
Georgia Loosley
Editing Lead
Georgia Loosley is a writer and maker from South London. She has a background in events production, marketing, and social media, and is now studying for her MA at the University of Westminster. Her work explores themes of mental health, femininity, and complex relationships, investigating the human condition and asking ‘why?’.
Chris Landaburu
Senior Team Member
Carmen Landaburu (Chris) is an Author and aspiring theatre director from Mexico residing in the United Kingdom. With two Master Degrees on Creative Writing under their belt, one from Kingston University in 2014, the last one at the University of Westminster in 2024, they're currently studying a third Masters in Professional Writing, while pursuing a new career in Theatre in London. They write historical, fantasy and crime fiction, aspiring to publish one day. About theatre, they directed and produced an amateur adaptation of Les Miserables in 2014.