| Beginning September 1, The Rumpus’s new editor-in-chief is Aram Mrjoian. He is currently the associate fiction editor at Guernica, a role he will transition away from, and a Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow. Mrjoian has previously been an editor at TriQuarterly, the Southeast Review, and the Chicago Review of Books. He has also contributed fiction, essays, and interviews to The Rumpus and is the editor of the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora published by the University of Texas Press. Aram earned his PhD in creative writing from Florida State University and his MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University. He currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.
Aram's work at other literary magazines has covered all facets of a publication's operations, including online production, developmental editing, promotion, content management, grant writing, budgeting, masthead coordination, and event planning.
"Aram's thoughtfulness, collaborative spirit, and wide-ranging experiences will be welcome additions to The Rumpus. I look forward to working with him to help shape the next phase of the magazine," said Alyson Sinclair, publisher and owner of The Rumpus.
The magazine’s current EiC, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn will be rejoining the nonfiction team as Senior Essays Editor. During her tenure, Alysia streamlined our editorial systems, helped The Rumpus secure fiscal sponsorship (through Fractured Atlas) and the magazine’s first grant (through CLMP), hosted events in Asheville, NC, Seattle, Philadelphia, and NYC, and helped launch the Rumpus Membership program. The Membership program, currently at 410 active Members with the goal of reaching 600 by the end of 2023, is an effort to make the magazine sustainable and allow us to pay stipends to a few key staff members and boost our contributor funding pool.
Founded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest running truly independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We do not charge a reading fee for the over 7,000 submissions we receive a year and we regularly publish over 450 original pieces a year. This includes fiction, essays, poetry, comics, interviews, book reviews, themed columns and months, and more. In the past two years alone, work published byThe Rumpus has been included in Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best American Poetry, along with being included in numerous other anthologies and authors first books. With reader and donor support, we hope to continue championing exciting voices. | 
