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Adroit is also hiring:
Senior Editor: The Adroit Journal seeks an experienced and ambitious editor to lead the expansion of our publication of short stories, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction. The right candidate will have previous literary journal or press experience, and be comfortable leading a large team of volunteer editors and readers. With the support of our four prose editors, our editor-in-chief and executive editor, you will be responsible for evaluating and selecting prose for publication, soliciting submissions, and setting the direction for our prose prizes and relevant special projects. The position is currently estimated to require four to five hours per week and is on a volunteer basis (with the hope that there may be a stipend in the future). Apply here.
Staff Engagement Coordinator: The Adroit Journal seeks a passionate, organized Staff Engagement Coordinator with a penchant for community building to lead community and educational programs for members of the Adroit Journal staff. The coordinator will manage the logistics of both our Visiting Writer Series and In-House Staff Craft Talks, which will include recruiting dynamic and exciting authors to enrich. Also, the coordinator will spearhead initiatives that enable staff members to establish connections within the currently 100+ strong Adroit community. Candidates should have experience working in literary organizations, as well as experience mobilizing and completing community building projects. The position is currently estimated to require four to five hours per week and is on a volunteer basis (with the hope that there may be a stipend in the future). Apply here.
Leadership
Genre Editors
Staff Readers: Poetry Team
Isaiah Gbenga Adepoju
Poetry Reader
Wale Ayinla
Poetry Reader
Miguel Barretto Garcia
Poetry Reader
Ayomide Bayowa
Poetry Reader
Daniel Blokh
Poetry Reader
Sasha Carney
Poetry Reader
Jo Clark
Poetry Reader
Lauren Claus
Poetry Reader
Andres Cordoba
Poetry Reader
Bianca Darby-Matteoda
Poetry Reader
Tige DeCoster
Poetry Reader
Claire Denson
Poetry Reader
Shawna Ervin
Poetry Reader
Alana Esposito
Poetry Reader
Reed Everette
Poetry Reader
Ally Favilla
Poetry Reader
Gavin Yuan Gao
Poetry Reader
Henry Goldkamp
Poetry Reader
Javeria Hasnain
Poetry Reader
Carolina Hotchandani
Poetry Reader
Cory Hutchinson-Reuss
Poetry Reader
Seelai Karzai
Poetry Reader
Abbie Kiefer
Poetry Reader
Ben Kline
Poetry Reader
Cody Koester
Poetry Reader
Divyasri Krishnan
Poetry Reader
Lily Lauver
Poetry Reader
Corinne Leong
Poetry Reader
Timothy Thomas McNeely
Poetry Reader
Kathryn Merwin
Poetry Reader
Peter H. Michaels
Poetry Reader
Rebecca Morton
Poetry Reader
Shareen Murayama
Poetry Reader
Jae Nichelle
Poetry Reader
Caleb Nichols
Poetry Reader
C. Hiatt O’Connor
Poetry Reader
Carolyn Orosz
Poetry Reader
Michael O’Ryan
Poetry Reader
Julia O’Sullivan
Poetry Reader
Cynthia Parker-Ohene
Poetry Reader
Rhiya Pau
Poetry Reader
Natalie Perman
Poetry Reader
Michael Pontacoloni
Poetry Reader
Rachel Reidenbaugh
Poetry Reader
Ariel So
Poetry Reader
Kylan Tatum
Poetry Reader
Alice White
Poetry Reader
Jim Whiteside
Poetry Reader
Lizabeth Yandel
Poetry Reader
Staff Readers: Prose Team
Lukas Bacho
Prose Reader
Kyra Baldwin
Prose Reader
Sara Carmichael
Prose Reader
Amelia Chen
Prose Reader
Sean Ennis
Prose Reader
Caroline Fleischauer
Prose Reader
Ellie Gordon
Prose Reader
Chelsey Grasso
Prose Reader
Dedeepya Guthikonda
Prose Reader
Amanda Hawkins
Prose Reader
Silas Jones
Prose Reader
Enshia Li
Prose Reader
Megan Lunny
Prose Reader
Su Nadeau
Prose Reader
Maggie O’Brien
Prose Reader
Paz O’Farrell
Prose Reader
Ife Olatona
Prose Reader
Eleanor Peters
Prose Reader
Will Pewitt
Prose Reader
Iris Preaker
Prose Reader
Elijah Rushing Hayes
Prose Reader
Cora Schipa
Prose Reader
Eric Shattuck
Prose Reader
Jieyan Wang
Prose Reader
Editorial Ops Team
Content Team
Bailey Bujnosek
Staff Spotlight Correspondent
Ally Findlay
Content Editor
Reuben Gelley Newman
Content Editor
Sam Casto Hollman
Content Editor
Divya Mehrish
Content Intern
Marketing Team
Emily Marquis
Social Media Manager
Peter Fera
Marketing Manager
Isabelle Sakelaris
Email Marketing Manager
Kateri Kramer
Designer
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Here at The Adroit Journal, we’re incredibly excited to continue to grow the editorial and non-editorial sides of our staff. Do you think you could be the perfect addition to our team? We can’t wait to hear from you!
PREVIOUS STAFF MEMBERS – ARCHIVE
Leadership
Sarah Fletcher (2012-13), Alexa Derman (2013-15), Lucia LoTempio (2015-16), and Lauren R. Korn (2018-20).
Genre Editors
Ameerah Arjanee (2011-14), Connor Cook (2011-13), Magen Eissenstat (2011-15), Namita Krishnamurthy (2011-12), Kratika Mishra (2011-13), Samantha Ardoin (2012-13), Elizabeth Ballou (2012-15), Russell Bogue (2012-14), Linda Ge (2012-13), Kamden Hilliard (2012-14), Katherine Frain (2013-14), Kaitlin Jennrich (2013-15), Charles Ramsay McCrory (2013-15), Aaron Robertson (2013-15), Cody Ernst (2014-17), Michelle Donahue (2014-17), Jackson Holbert (2014-18), Shelley Whitaker (2014-19), Garrett Biggs (2015-21), Isabella Nilsson (2015-21), Anthony Veasna So (2015-19), Jesse De Angelis (2016-18), Peter Grimes (2017), Wayne Johns (2017-21), Liz Breazeale (2018-19), Derrick Austin (2019), and Leslie Sainz (2019).
Staff Readers
Aria Aber, Nicole Acton, Natalie Aflalo, Tolu Agbelusi, Maryam Ahmad, Julia Aizuss, Olivia Alger, Rachael Allen, Mariel Alonzo, Madeline Anderson, Arman Avasia, Mary Ardery, Christian Arthur, Colin Bailes, Luisa Banchoff, Bindu Bansinath, Jenna Bao, Samantha Bares, Abaigh Barlow, Lesya Bazylewicz, Emily Bernard, Ninad Bhat, Pritha Bhattacharyya, Destiny O. Birdsong, Ellie Black, Emma Bleker, Daniel Blokh, Tom Bosworth, Andre Bouyssonouse, Meg Boyles, Hannah Boysko, Michael Brashear, Mayan Braude, Hayden Bunker, Chelsea Bunn, Kim Bussing, William Ward Butler, Walker Caplan, David Carey, Lucy Catlett, Nicky Cayless, Alexander Cendrowski, Dorothy Chan, Leila Chatti, Yongyu Chen, Haeyeon (Tina) Cho, Alexandria Chu, Helena Chung, Yennifer Clarin, Samantha Xiao Cody, Anna Conner, Kell Connor, Preston Cooper, Marisa Crane, Madeleine Cravens, Elizabeth Crowdy, Nathan Cummings, Jade Cuttle, Adrienne Davich, Delia Davis, Marc Decitre, Lane Devers, Sarah Jo DeVore, Trang Dinh, Aline Dolinh, Allison Donohue, Bowen Dunnan, Steven Duong, Noah Dversdall, Mars Early-Hubelbank, Maya Eashwaran, Trista Edwards, Elliot Eglash, Mica Evans, Julia Falkner, Summer Farah, Lisa Favicchia, Joseph Felkers, Marlin Figgins, Julia Fine, Lily Fishman, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Forsythe, Michael Frazier, Will Fraizer, Idalia Friedson, Samantha Futhey, Theresa Gaffney, Cassie Garison, Ashleigh Gill, Matty Layne Glasgow, Hannah Goldstein, Stefania Gomez, Alina Grabowski, Chelsey Grasso, Hannah Green, Emma Grillo, Ivy Grimes, Jaclyn Grimm, Dominic Gualco, Rebecca Gyllenhaal, Sage Calder Hahn, Adam Hamze, Kate Hao, Alex Hartley, Jordan Harper, Edil Hassan, Sara Mae Henke, Nora Henrie, Miles Hewitt, Julia Hogan, Trish Hopkinson, Maison Horton, Will Howard, Allison Huang, Nancy Huang, Kinsale Hueston, Claire Hurley, Y. Jelal Huyler, Sierra Jacob, Gunnar Jaeck, Michelle Jia, Nanya Jhingran, Zane Johnson, Emma Joss, Caleb Kaiser, Christos Kalli, Seelai Karzai, Maya Kaul, Caroline Kelley, Chloe Kim, Heidi Kim, Maddie Kim, Hannah Knowles, Daniel Kovalcik, Tom Kozlowski, Dan Kraines, Mari Kramer, Hadiyyah Kuma, Rebekkah LaBlue, Piper Lane, Rich Larson, Claire Lee, William Leggat, Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Rachel Leung, Blake Levario, Jared Levy, Rachel Lewis, Jessie Li, Jeffrey Liao, Allison Light, Rachel Litchman, Yi-Ling Liu, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Carol Lubin, Casey Lynch, Amy Lyons, Emily Mack, Alice Maglio, Christopher Mahon, Fatima Malik, Rick Manayan, Lip Manegio, Victoria Mao, Christine Marella, Cahaley Markman, Ariana McGinn, Molly McGinnis, James McKenna, Kathryn McMahon, Jeff McRae, Liana Meffert, Rebecca Mennecke, Chloe Michaelidis, Isadora Milanez, Rose Miles, Fatima Mohie-Eldin, Eliza Moley, Joanna Moley, Emily Morris, Catherine Mosier-Mills, Da’Shawn Mosley, Shareen K. Murayama, Meghana Mysore, Joe Nasta, Jackson Neal, Mia Nelson, Kimarlee Nguyen, Amelia Nierenberg, Nkosi Nkululeko, Daniel T. O’Brien, Aaron Orbey, Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Deonte Osayande, Olatunde Osinaike, Sophie Paquette, Roger Pellegrini, Alejandro Pérez, Andrea Mendoza Perez, Harley Phleger, Rushing Pittman, Meghann Plunkett, Michael Pontacoloni, Klara Pokrzywa, Andy Powell, Jenny Qi, Varun Ravindran, Caitlin Richardson, Kathleen Radigan, Ben Read, Rachel Reeher, Jessica Regione, Frances Revel, Amie Souza Reilly, Matthew Ridley, Saga Ringmar, Juliana Roth, Danny Rothschild, Tom Rowe, Sofia Rower, Dominique Salas, Iris Samuels, Julie Sanchez, Ravneet Kaur Sandhu, Melita Schmeckpeper, Margaret Schnabel, Shakthi Shrima, Amanda Silberling, Ryan Skaryd, Keenan Teddy Smith, Audrey Spensley, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, Kimberly Grabowski Strayer, Taylor Strickland, Pauline Suwanban, Crystal Sung, Scott Szpisjak, Avia Tadmor, Oriana Tang, Valerie Taylor, Jonathan Teklit, Parisa Thepmankorn, Jacqueline Winter Thomas, Emily Tian, Ben Togut, Emma Townley-Smith, Amish Trivedi, Rebecca Tseng, Matthew Tuckner, Leona Vander Molen, Thomas Waddill, Ryan Wagahoff, Lloyd Wallace, Kara Kai Wang, Haines Whitacre, Roy White, Isaac Williams, Spencer Williams, Dalia Wolfson, Nicole Wong, Jules Wood, Chelsy Jiayi Wu, Tiffany Xie, Katherine Xiong, Emily Yang, Gisselle Yepes, Jay G. Ying, Chun San Yong, Alex C. Zhang, Carrie Zhang, Emily Zhao, Ashley Zhou, Grace Zhou, Alexander Zitzner, Claire Zlotnicki, and Julie Zuckerman.
Art Staff
Michele Selene Ang, Brannon Dorsey, Will Erwin, Jessica Suhr, Lathan Vargason, and Emily Zhang.
Mentorship Team
S. Brook Corfman, Ollie Kim Dupuy, Kris Faatz, Polina Solovyeva, Emma Townley-Smith, Caleb Kaiser, Molly McGinnis, Carly Joy Miller, and Douglas Ray.
Marketing, Web, & Operations Team
Stephanie Chang, Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson, Katherine Chou, Samuel Clark, Amelia Van Donsel, Nadia Farjami, Stephanie Fieseher, Kelly Han, Genevieve Hartman, Eileen Huang, May Huang, Katrina Lee, Annie Li, Laurin Becker Macios, Archita Mittra, Claire Oleson, Kaila Philo, Samantha Slupski, Zoe Stoller, Bradley Trumpfheller, Kaitlyn Wang, Macrina Wang, Becky Wolfson, Cindy Xie, and Justin Zhu.
Content Team
Claire August, Bindu Bansinath, Ariella Carmell, Darren Chang, Peter Chappell, Marina Chen, Corey Dahl, Derick Edgren, Aidan Forster, Henry Heidger, Audrey Kim, Esther Lee, Joanna Moley, Gillian Pelkonen, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Imogen Shaw, Amanda Silberling, Eloise Sims, Jeffery Wang, Meimei Xu, and Audrey Zhao.
Internship Team
Shira Abramovich, Claire Ahn, Rachel Alatalo, Sage Braziel, Amelia Chen, Michael Ivory, Ariel Kim, Kyubin Kong, Sarah Lao, Youngseo Lee, Sophia Li, Jennifer Liu, Maria Mendoza, Uma Menon, Meena Rakasi, Jessie Seng, Derek Song, Nathan Phuong, Katie Pyontek, Isabel Prioleau, McKenna Ritter, Maia Siegel, Ivy Tica, Grace Wang, Cindy Xie, and Jisoo Hope Yoon.