The Journal
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Aleksey Porvin
Aleksey Porvin is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His areas of interest include the relationships between literature, politics, history, gender, and social experience, with particular attention to questions of class, inequality, ideology, and the politics of representation. His literary and critical interests also encompass the interplay of language, power, literary tradition, and collective subjectivity.
For his contribution to Russian letters, Porvin was awarded the Debut Prize (2012) and the Andrei Bely Prize (2025).
The Andrei Bely Prize is Russia's oldest independent literary award and the country's foremost recognition of the independent literary tradition that has developed outside both the Soviet literary establishment and state-sponsored ideological culture. Founded in 1978, it has, over the decades, honored many of the leading poets of Russian literature, establishing a distinguished record of recognizing writers of the first rank.
As Editor-in-Chief, he brings to the journal a commitment to politically engaged, formally innovative, and intellectually rigorous writing, with particular attention to voices and perspectives that challenge established cultural conventions.
Latin American Literature Editor
Anthony Seidman
Anthony Seidman is a poet and translator who has spent significant amounts of time living in and writing from Mexico's northern border. His full-length translations include Contra Natura by Rodolfo Hinostroza, Smooth-Talking Dog by Roberto Castillo Udiarte, The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood by Frank Báez, and Confetti-Ash: Selected Poems of Salvador Novo.
Juan Felipe Herrera claimed that his translation and unearthing of A Stab in the Dark by Facundo Bernal "truly changes everything in Latinx literature." Seidman's translations, reviews, articles, and poems have appeared in such journals as Latin American Literature Today, The Black Herald, Los Angeles Review of Books, Huizache, World Literature Today, The Bitter Oleander, Modern Poetry in Translation, Review-Literature and Arts of the Americas, and New American Writing.
His work appears in anthologies like Asymmetries: Contemporary Peruvian Poetry, The Ecopoetry Anthology, The Serpent and the Fire, and La vida en sí-Poesía de lo cotidiano en el norte de México. His poetry has been translated into Spanish and French, and featured in journals from Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. With artist Jean-Claude Loubières, he has published four artist books through AdèLéo Press. The books are housed in such collections as the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre-Pompidou and Le Centre des livres d'artistes.
The Latin American Literature section in The Rang Yan Review seeks to discover and herald new and forgotten voices, as well as to continue the research and translation of the voices percieved as great from the past and those currently producing poetry, prose, and essays; however, no name is too great enough to not be questioned or re-examined from a new angle. We are particularly interested in marginal and vanguard voices, or literature produced from underlooked regions, yet of undeniable power and brilliance.
Egypt and Middle East Editor
Mohsen Elblasy
Mohsen Elblasy is a poet, translator, visual artist, and researcher whose work centers on surrealist literature and the visual arts in Egypt and the Middle East. He is the founder of Sulfur Editions, editor-in-chief of the surrealist magazine The Room, and co-founder of the Middle East and North Africa Surrealist Group.
He translates literary and philosophical texts, with particular attention to surrealist thought, and writes for international journals on art movements and contemporary work. His books include Erotic, Political, Psalms (Al Kotby, Egypt, 2014), The Goddess of the Moon, surrealist texts and poems written with Ghadah Kamal (Dar Badael, 2018), The Free Imagination, essays in literary and artistic criticism (Dar Badael, 2019), and Rejection of the Poem, an anthology and translation of historical surrealist and Dadaist poems (Rê, 2019). The Trip of Kamel El-Telmissany: The Surrealist against the Realist (New Culture, 2021) received the Saweras Prize for Criticism. With Ghadah Kamal he published The Wolves of the Moon, poetry and collages (La Belle Inutile, France, 2021). His translations of Joyce Mansour include The Tuberose Baby Girl (Sefsafa, 2024) and Hurtful Stories: The Complete Prose Works of Joyce Mansour (Al Mutawassit, Italy, 2024). He edited the surrealist anthology IEOS (La Belle Inutile, 2023).
Elblasy is executive director and general secretary of the International Cooperative for Arts, Sciences and Technology (I COAST) and co-founder of the Chrysopoeia Surrealist Union. He has directed the International Exhibition of Surrealism (Cairo / Saint-Cirq-Lapopie), curated Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism and Maze of Games and Dreams in Alexandria, and served as international coordinator of Échos Surréalistes Contemporains (Luxor, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Budapest, and Alabama), held in collaboration with the French Ministry of Culture.
Egypt and Middle East Editor
Ghadah Kamal
Ghadah Kamal is a translator, writer, poet, visual artist, and musician whose work centers on surrealist literature and the visual arts in Egypt and the Middle East. She is co-founder and editorial director of Sulfur Editions, a founding member of the Middle East and North Africa Surrealist Group, and a co-founding member of the Chrysopoeia Surrealist Union.
She edits the Surrealist Cities section of The Room and the Sulfur Surrealist Jungle platform, and is publishing and events director and treasurer of the International Cooperative for Arts, Sciences and Technology (I COAST). With Mohsen Elblasy she published The Goddess of the Moon, surrealist texts and poems (Dar Badael, Egypt, 2018), and The Wolves of the Moon, poetry and collages in English, French, and Spanish (La Belle Inutile, 2021). Her other books include The Man Who Ate the Watch (Sefsafa, Egypt) and The Last Summer of Mr. Dipodoidea. Her translations include The Man Who Decided to Become a Tree by Yoyo, Being on the Brink by Ahmad Klij, and Surplus Skin by Ibrahim Abdelfattah. Her work also appears in Oblivion, Revue de la poésie in toto, Lithaire 3, and Honidi.
Kamal coordinated the International Exhibition of Surrealism (Cairo / Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, 2022), Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism (Alexandria and Budapest), and the Luxor Surrealist Symposium. She also organized Échos Surréalistes Contemporains, a touring project across Luxor, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Budapest, and Alabama.
English Canada Literature Editor
Sean G. Meggeson
Sean G. Meggeson is a poet and audio/spoken word artist based in Toronto. His poetry has been published in a range of journals and magazines. Sean received the League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award in 2024 and was a finalist for the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize. His spoken word & soundscape work has been featured on the Ears Have Eyes podcast, NAISA radio, Radiophrenia 2026, and others. Sean's creative work explores the intersections of self, the socius, and language as textual sonics. He embraces the phenomenology of the liminal and tries to cultivate what UK poet Alan Fischer has called a "confidence in lack."
Sean's critical stance is further informed by his career as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose training and clinical experience ranges from Freud and Lacan to the Interpersonal and to the psycho-social à la Deleuze & Guattari, Laing, and others. Sean has published and presented papers on inter-species intersubjectivity, neurodivergence, and psycho-synthesis. He has recently published a paper on the use of metaphor in psychoanalysis as seen through a Ricoeurian lens where he explores Ricoeur's proposition, "The metaphor is not the enigma but the solution to the enigma."
As Rang Yan's Literature Editor for English Canada, Sean seeks to be attuned to the cultural expressions and conflicts that make up the diverse nation of Canada, a country that maybe came to know a little of itself in the 1960s through a literature of difference, a discourse of "borderblur" as first coined by Houédard in 1963 and later conceptualized by Canadian poets bpNichol and bill bissett.
Italy Literature Editor
Pina Piccolo
Italy
Pina Piccolo is a writer, translator and journal editor who has spent long periods of her life in the US and in Italy and is currently active in transnational literary settings.
She is the sole editor of The Dreaming Machine - Writings and visual arts from the world and maintains her personal blog Pina Piccolo’s blog /il blog di Pina Piccolo. In Italy she was a close collaborator for the journal Sagarana, and later one of the founders and editors of the literary journal La Macchina Sognante. Her Italian poetry collection I canti dell’Interregno was published by Lebeg edizioni in 2019; her English language poetry collection Avatar songs was published in 2026 by Lord Byron Ediciones; and her collection “Notes from the angel of chaos” is forthcoming in 2027 with Red River Press. The topics she has been exploring in recent years in her work revolve around language, ecology, philosophy and migration.
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