Vika Mujumdar (Founder and Editor)
Vika Mujumdar is a writer and critic based in Western Massachusetts. She was born in New Jersey and raised in Pune, India, and holds an MA in Comparative Literature from UMass Amherst where she is currently an MFA student in Fiction. She teaches writing and works for the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. A 2025-2026 NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow, her work has appeared in the Cleveland Review of Books, Public Books, the Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She edits Liminal Transit Review.
Rodlyn-mae Banting (Poetry Editor)
Rodlyn-mae Banting is a Filipino American poet, journalist, and cultural critic, writing about race, gender, family, and empire. A former staff writer at Jezebel, their prose can additionally be found in Bitch Media, Sojourners, Electric Lit, and elsewhere. Their poetry is featured in AAWW’s The Margins, No, Dear, and Apogee Lit. They hold a master’s in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and are a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at University of California-Riverside.
Aishwarya Marathe (Fiction Reader)
Aishwarya Marathe is a writer, Kathak dancer, and comparatist. Her plays have been staged in Portland and Los Angeles. Currently, her doctoral research centers themes of gendered violence, citizenship, and the ethics of representing trauma in Anglophone, Francophone, Hindi, Urdu, and Persian literature. She is a coast-to-coast nomad and collects fledgling thoughts on yellow sticky notes.
Former staff:
Jacqueline Linares (Fiction Editor)
Annoushka Clear (Fiction Reader)
Ariel K. Moniz (Social Media Coordinator)
April Yee (CNF Reader)
Arron Luo (CNF Editor)
Bassama Tanvir (Fiction Reader)
Timi Sanni (Poetry Reader)
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