So, you've found our website, it's an uncomfortable situation for a magazine called OFFLINE.

But I get it. I, too, love the internet. The blog posts that feel like big sister advice, the unexpected photo in your feed that sparks inspiration for a killer outfit, the friendship developed with a stranger around a common interest, the words read and heard from voices long excluded from traditional media… I love it all, and I love it all so much I want it out of my screen.

Because for all the beauty and inspiration the internet brings me, I find myself missing the feeling of paper between my fingers, the smell of fresh print, the ability to keep words that impacted me safe and secure on my bookshelf, and the freedom to fully give my attention to those words without being disrupted by something else more pressing, more urgent.

This yearning for a physical memento of the online cultural happenings is why I founded OFFLINE, a literary and culture magazine that aims to bring creative voices from the internet into the printed page.

In a lot of ways, OFFLINE is actually an attempt at expressing my love for the internet. It is for the literary it-girl whose Instagram shows a matching outfit for every book, for the thought daughter who wishes she could dissect and annotate her favourite author's essay directly with her MUJI pen, and for all the chronically online trying - but not really - to heal.