Rima Rantisi is a writer, founding editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, and lecturer in creative writing at the American University of Beirut. Her essays can be found in the New England Review, Literary Hub, Slag Glass City, Rusted Radishes, and elsewhere. Her work has also been anthologized in various publications, including her Pushcart-nominated essay “Inside the (Seismic) Shift,” which appeared in The Blissful City, a notable selection in The Best American Essays 2021. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has received literary fellowships from Headlands Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and Monson Arts. She is at work on a collection of essays on writing and the liminal spaces residing at the junctions of motherhood, place, and intergenerational war histories.

زينة الحلبي، أكاديمية وكاتبة تهتمّ بالثقافة العربية المعاصرة. صدر لها كتاب عن تمثيل المثقّف في الأدب والسينما منذ تسعينات القرن الماضي ومقالات حول الأدب المعاصر والموسيقى والثقافة البصرية. عملت أستاذة جامعية في الولايات المتحدة والجامعة الأميركية في بيروت. لا تهوى الترجمة، ولكن هناك نصوص تعترضها دون خجل أو سابق إنذار.

Lina Ghaibeh is a practicing comics and animation artist living in Beirut, and associate professor at the department of Architecture & Design, at the American University of Beirut. She is founder and director of the Mu’taz and Rada Sawwaf Arabic Comics initiative at AUB, and her research focuses on Comics from the Arab world as part of contemporary Arab Culture. She edited the graphic novel Kissas Muthawara: Graphic Narratives from the Revolution 2019, and her most recent essay is “Women in Comics from the Arab World.” Her creative work has been exhibited at several international film festivals and comics Salons. Lina is an identical twin, the evil one.

Milia Ayache is a Beirut-based actor, writer, and Linux enthusiast. She recently appeared as the lead performer in Angelmakers: Song for female Serial Killers. Her writing has appeared in American Theatre Magazine as well as the book Stages of Resistance: Theatre and Politics in Capitalocene (NoPassport Press). Milia teaches playwriting and creative writing at The American University of Beirut and holds an MFA from The American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

Maha Ahmed is an English Literature & Creative Writing PhD candidate at the University of Houston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Grist, The Adroit Journal, 580 Split, Rusted Radishes, The Recluse, and elsewhere. Her critical and creative work explores the Arab-American diaspora, late capitalism, World Literature, global feminism, and inter-religious history. She is currently the poetry editor at Rusted Radishes and the online nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast. Find her on twitter @mahaahmed81.

Nourhane Kazak is the Assistant Poetry Editor at Rusted Radishes. She has been writing and performing poetry in Beirut for over seven years. Nourhane models her poetry on the processes of the mind and body as they unfold in real-time. She enjoys dismantling language and exploring the limitations and possibilities of syntax, pushing the medium to new functions. Her creative practice traces the corporeal experience of language through experiments with body and voice. She sees language as a playground to explore consciousness and the subconscious, impulses, neuroses, obsessions, dreams, the severed relationship to nature and the non-human world, time, words, sound, thoughts, and all this imagined living.

Lin is an architect based in Beirut. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Art History and Curating at the American University of Beirut.

عمر الدليمي، طالب دراسات عليا في قسم الأدب المقارن في كلية دارتموث ومحرّر مساعد في قسم اللغة العربية لمجلة فَمْ. تخرج من الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت عام 2024.

Amina Hassan is a playwright who works between Berlin and Beirut. In her plays, she deals with rifts, polemic voices, and displaced or censored narratives. Her work has been published in The New England Review and Rusted Radishes, recent shows featuring her texts have taken place at Pathos München, Schaubude Berlin, and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. She is currently studying Playwriting at the Berlin University of the Arts, and holds a scholarship from SchreibZeit, a literature scholarship of the Stiftung Niedersachsen

Hiba Kobrosli is a third year graphic design student in the American University of Beirut. She is particularly interested in paintings and photography that find a way to capture the beauty hidden in our everyday lives.

Raed Gharzeddine is a graphic design student at the American University of Beirut. Passionate about publication design, he enjoys exploring the intersection of typography and layout. In addition to graphic design, he has a keen interest in street photography and projects that blend creativity, language, and visual communication.

Nur Turkmani is the author of October, a poetry chapbook selected by Chen Chen for Purple Ink’s Poetry Contest and forthcoming in 2025. She is a writer and researcher in Beirut. Her research looks at social movements, displacement, and agriculture. She has fiction and poetry in Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review, The Adroit Journal, Short Fiction, Poetry London, The Offing, and others. Her essays are in The Evergreen Review, AlJumhuriya, Jadaliya, Syria Untold. She studied creative writing at Oxford University and is a contributing editor at Rusted Radishes.

Nour Naffaa is a storyteller with a background in English literature and a passion for crafting thoughtful, engaging content. As Digital Content Manager at Rusted Radishes, she helped shape the journal’s online presence—growing its readership from local to international and streamlining digital publishing workflows. With experience across editorial strategy, project coordination, and user-centered communication, Nour brings a creative yet organized touch to every project she’s part of. She’s especially drawn to the spaces where language, design, and community meet.

Perla Kantarjian is an award-winning Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, and editor, with writings in 30+ publications, most recently Electric Literature, Magma, and The Poetry Society. Formerly, she was the executive editor of Carpe Diem, the literary segment of Annahar Newspaper. Her work has been recognized by the Southbank Centre, Palette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize for Women Poets, and Black Lawrence Press’ 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award, among others. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.

Tia Kaedbey is a visual artist and a creative writer based in Beirut. She is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in English Literature at the American University of Beirut. She is the founder of Fairylistiic, a green project that upcycles CD waste into hand-painted art pieces. In 2024, she got recognized among the top three green women entrepreneurs in Lebanon. When she’s not painting and advocating for the environment? She’s advocating for human rights! One of her latest published works is an optional protocol addressing violence against women in Lebanon to CEDAW. Even revolutions need a bit of color!