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Staff

Jori Lewis

editor in chief

Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic Magazine, Orion Magazine and Emergence Magazine, among others. In 2022, she published her first book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress. It also won a James Beard media award and the Harriet Tubman Prize. She was a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2019-2020 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Nimmi Gowrinathan

founder & publisher

Nimmi Gowrinathan is an activist, writer, scholar, and founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative that works to center the political voice of young women and queer folx. She is the Publisher of Adi Magazine, and the creator of the Female Fighter Series at Guernica Magazine. Described by Valerial Luiselli as proof of a "political imagination like no other" her first book, Radicalizing Her (Beacon Press, 2021), examines the complex politics of the female fighter. Her political essays, which have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Freeman's Journal, McSweeney's Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, and Foreign Affairs, among others have been described as "searing in a search for answers" (Publisher's Weekly). Her forthcoming book, Occupation and the Body (Yale, 2026) reads injury from the intimate terrain of the body to locate deeper impulses towards liberation.

Genevieve Hartman

managing editor

Genevieve Hartman is a Korean American poet based in upstate New York. She is the managing editor for Adi Magazine and publicist for Alice James Books. Her poems and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Margins, River Mouth Review, and elsewhere.

Ruxandra Guidi

nonfiction editor

Ruxandra Guidi has been telling stories for more than two decades. Her reporting and writing for public radio, podcasts and magazines has taken her throughout the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Shze-Hui Tjoa

nonfiction editor

Shze-Hui Tjoa is the author of The Story Game: A Memoir (Tin House Books, Faction Press), listed as a best nonfiction book of 2024 by Electric Literature and Paste Magazine. She is a nonfiction editor at Guernica and Adi Magazine. Her career has received support from global arts organizations including the National Arts Council (Singapore), Disquiet International (Portugal), and Green Olive Arts (Morocco).

Ladan Osman

poetry editor

Ladan Osman is the author of two poetry collections: Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of a Whiting Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. Her poems have been translated into over 10 languages. Osman's photographs and experimental media have been exhibited by Paris Photo, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Arts Incubator, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, and the New York African Film Festival. Her films include: The Ascendants, Sam Underground, The Fly Collectors, and Sun of the Soil. These films have played in numerous festivals and were awarded an ECU Award for Best Independent Documentary, and a Dikalo Award for Best Short Documentary, among other honors. She lives in New York.

Vanessa Mejia

editorial assistant

Vanessa Mejia is a graduate of Rutgers University with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She is the editorial intern at Adi Magazine. She is pursuing a career in the publishing industry as an editor.

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