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: Taylor Byas, Darcy Gagnon, Sarah Kasbeer, T. L. Pavlich
Senior fiction editor: 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
We Are More editor: Michelle Zamanian
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.