Who We Are

Editor-in-chief: Marisa Siegel

Managing editor: Marissa Korbel

Deputy editor: Ian MacAllen

Senior features editors: Lisa Factora-Borchers, Claire Rudy Foster, Megan Giddings, Robbie Maakestad, Lisa Mecham

Features editors: Kate Branca, Eve Ettinger, p.e. garcia, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, Lauren J. Sharkey, Liz Wood

Assistant features editors: Darcy Gagnon, Katherine D. Morgan, T. L. Pavlich, Michelle Zamanian

Senior fiction editors: Karissa Chen, Dennis Norris II

Fiction editors: Rebecca Rubenstein, Vonetta Young

Interviews editor: Monet Patrice Thomas

Assistant interviews editors: Janet Frishberg, A. Malone

Books editor: Chelsea Leu

Senior poetry editors: Brian Spears, Molly Spencer

Rumpus Original Poetry editors: Cortney Lamar Charleston, Carolina Ebeid

Poetry reviews editors: Noah Baldino, Leena Soman Navani

Assistant poetry editor: Nicholas Nichols

Comics editor: Brandon Hicks

Funny Women editor: Elissa Bassist

Voices on Addiction editor: Kelly Thompson

Programs administrator and store manager: Wendy Rutkowski

Children’s correspondence coordinator: Rosiee Thor

Site administrator: Jesse Keyes

The Rumpus Advisory Board: Mary-Kim Arnold, Melissa Febos, Roxane Gay, Julie Greicius, Christine H. Lee, Kima Jones, Lyz Lenz, Celeste Ng, Cheryl Strayed, Claire Vaye Watkins

The Rumpus’s logo was designed by Rachael Schafer! To learn more about Rachael and to commission her for projects, visit rachaelschaferdesigns.com.

The Rumpus supports and stands with Black Lives Matter. You can learn more, and access BLM-endorsed strategies to enact change locally and worldwide, at blacklivesmatters.carrd.co.

A special thanks to the following founding editors: Isaac Fitzgerald (co-founder and managing editor), Roxane Gay (essays), Katy Henriksen (music), Paul Madonna (comics), Molly McArdle (Tumblr), Jason Novak (illustration), Rebecca Rubenstein (interviews). Thanks also to former managing editors Lisa Dusenbery, Zoë Ruiz, and Lyz Lenz. The Rumpus was founded by Stephen Elliott.