According to myth, the seventh wave is the tallest in a set of waves. That is to say, the one that makes the biggest impact. Our organization hopes to pull in voices and perspectives that will, collectively, crash loudly onto the shore. Some say waves travel in groups of 12 to 16, which is the number of pieces we publish together. We want to expose the forces underneath the surface of the social issues we examine. We want to challenge how and what people interact with, and that means starting somewhere scary and groundless, like the ocean. Water and waves are also perfect metaphors for us, as the way in which we curate our issues — and our calls for submissions — are not too dissimilar from how waves form: from storms. We are always, and forever, responding to our climate and the times. The Seventh Wave is a record of the storms we have witnessed in the world since 2015.