Publisher: Alyson Sinclair (she/her)
Editor-in-Chief: Aram Mrjoian (he/him)
Managing Editor: Stephanie Trott (she/her)
Essays Team
Senior Editors: Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn (she/they), Robbie Maakestad (he/him), Kate B. Merritt (she/her), Darcy Gagnon (he/him)
Editors: T. L. Pavlich (they/them), Lauren J. Sharkey (she/her), Taylor Byas (she/her), Anna Held, Di Jayawickrema (she/her)
Assistant Editors: Shaan Amin, Deirdre Sugiuchi (she/her), Jamie Cattanach (she/her), Bethany Marcel (she/her), Janika Oza (she/her)
Readers: Annabelle Allen (she/her), Allison Armijo (she/they), Holly Bergman (she/her), Celia Cook (they/she), LJ Jensen (they/them), Rey Katz (they/them), noam keim (they/them), Kate Lewis (she/her), Emily Mathis (she/her), andie millares, Sergio Muro (he/him), Ashlen Renner (she/they), Fran Teoh (she/her), Tiffany Yo (she/her), Shabana Sharif (she/her), Hadera McKay (she/her), Taylor Schaefer (she/her), Giuliana Vasile (she/her)
Fiction Team
Senior Editors: Kelly Dignan and Reena Shah
Editors: Liwen Xu (she/her), Chris Santantasio, Katie Quach, Allison Field Bell (she/her), and WS Gong (he/him)
Readers: Katie Antonsson (she/her), Adia Ayanna, Ifeanyichukwu Eze, Ai Li Feng, Ruofei Ivy Du, Aidan Linder (he/him), MaxieJane Frazier, Diane Josefowicz, Franchesca Viaud, D.E. Hardy, Katiy Heath, Keene Short (he/him), Micaela Martínez (she/her), Sergio Muro (he/him), Suhasini Patni, Tadeh Andriassian Kennedy (he/him), Kelly Marages (she/her), Nedjelko Spaich, Maxwell Suzuki (he/him), Amy Wheeler Harwood, Denise S. Robbins, Eric Mueller (he/him), Katie Coleman (she/her), Kelly Tanner-Backenroth (she/her), LT Takemoto, Nicole Nelson, Shella Parcarey, Carolyn Wilson-Scott, Elizabeth Zertuche (she/her)
Interviews Team
Senior Editor: Annelies Zijderveld
Editor: Janet Rodriguez
Assistant Interviews Editor: Eliza Harris (she/her)
#ShowUsYourDesk Host (on Instagram): Greg Mania
Books Team
Prose Reviews Editors: J Brooke (they/them)
Poetry Reviews Editor: Jennifer Franklin (she/her) and Adedayo Agarau
Multigenre Reviewer-at-Large: Erin Vachon (they/them)
Poetry Team
Editors: Carolina Ebeid, Emma Hyche (she/her), janan alexandra
Assistant Poetry Editors: Monica Romo
Readers: blkcowrie (she/her/we/us), Becca Downs, Sara Ellen Fowler, Andrew Mack, Nicole Arocho Hernández, Anne Holub, Javeria Hasnain, Jay Aja, Hannah V Warren, Whitley Albury, mallory edwards, Alison Granucci, Danielle Shi, juj e lepe
Columns Editors
ENOUGH: Katie Kosma (she/her)
Funny Women: Elissa Bassist (she/her/witch)
Funny Women Assistant Editor: Gina DeLuca (she/her)
Voices on Addiction: Kelly Thompson (she/her)
We Are More: Michelle Zamanian, Leila Mansouri, Marianne Manzler
Comics Editor: Colleen Kolba
Editors-at-Large
Marisa Siegel (she/her)
Marissa Korbel (she/they)
Art Director: Ian MacAllen (he/him)
Engagement Editor: Caitlin Rae Taylor
Assistant Copyeditor: Katie Coleman (she/her)
Store Manager: Eric Carroll
Letters in the Mail & Advertising Coordinator: Monica Roma
The Rumpus‘s inaugural Capacity-Building Board. (Term 2024–.) The following authors, educators, and nonprofit leaders are working with the Rumpus team to support our goals around financial sustainability. A huge thank you to:
Julie Buntin (Ann Arbor, MI)
Catherine Campbell (Asheville, NC)
Kristine Leja (San Francisco, CA)
Courtney Maum (Litchfield County, CT)
Marisa Siegel (Chicago, IL)
Kelly Sundberg (Columbus, OH)
Cindy Tran (New York, NY)
Mark Wallace (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
Reema Zaman (Los Angeles, CA)
The magazine wouldn’t exist today without the following founding editors and foundational supporters: Isaac Fitzgerald (co-founder and managing editor), Roxane Gay (essays), Cheryl Strayed (Dear Sugar), Katy Henriksen (music), Paul Madonna (comics), Molly McArdle (Tumblr), Jason Novak (illustration), Rebecca Rubenstein (interviews), and to our former store manager, Wendy Rutkowski. Thanks also to former publisher Marisa Siegel, former editor-in-chief Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, founding Poetry Editor, Brian Spears, and managing editors Lisa Dusenbery, Zoë Ruiz, and Lyz Lenz. We are also especially grateful for the guidance and support of Mary-Kim Arnold, Melissa Febos, Julie Greicius, Christine H. Lee, Celeste Ng, and Claire Vaye Watkins.
And to every volunteer reader, editor, contributor, and artist we’ve published on The Rumpus: you are the reason we exist. Thank you for being a part of the magazine’s past, present, and future.