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.

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.

Angela Brussel is an American-Armenian-Lebanese writer and photographer based in Beirut with nonfiction and fiction that have appeared in New Statesman, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature to name a few. She is also the founder of Nour Jan Presents This Diaspora Life, a multi-media project that uses oral histories and archival music to do ethnographic deep dives into diaspora communities around the world.

May Ghaibeh is a graphic designer based in Beirut, with experience over the past 25 years in motion graphics, websites, graphic design, and branding. Her core work lies in creative businesses, cultural institutions, TV channels, academia, and non-profit humanitarian organizations.

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.

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.

Mai Serhan is the author of CAIRO: the undelivered letters, winner of the 2022 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Award, I Can Imagine It For Us, a finalist for the 2022 Narratively Memoir Prize and forthcoming withAUC Press, as well as the poetry collection, A Thousand Minarets & No Sidewalks forthcoming with Diwan Publishing. She’s a graduate of the Creative Writing programme at the University of Oxford. Visit www.maiserhan.com for more on her work.

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.

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.