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Cofounder & Editor-in-Chief

Mahdis Marzooghian

Mahdis Marzooghian is cofounder and editor-in-chief of Five on the Fifth. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Miso for Life anthology (print), Heartwood Literary Magazine, Welter Literary Journal (print), Mud Season Review, BULL Men’s Fiction, Lunch Ticket, Arkana Literary Journal, where her piece won the Editor’s Choice Award, and Nowruz Journal. Mahdis is the author of debut novel, “Death Has None” (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2023) and founding member of the PRWR Towson University Alumni Alliance Writers Retreat program at Still Point, WV.

Managing Editor

Rhea Dhanbhoora

Rhea Dhanbhoora is the managing editor of Five on the Fifth. She lives and writes in Upstate NY. Her work has appeared in various publications including Chronogram, Peripheries Journal, Artsy, Broccoli Mag, sPARKLE & bLINK, and JMWW, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. "In Search of a Memory," one of the stories from her unpublished collection tracing the lives of Parsi Zoroastrian women in a gated community in India, was turned into a short film and screened at IIFA Miami. She’s currently Content Marketing Manager at Nutrisense, is on the Board for Quiet Lightning, and author of “Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons” (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Follow her work at rheadhanbhoora.com.

Poetry Reader

Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad is the poetry reader for Five on the Fifth. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and New England Review, among others. She won the 2019 LUMINA La Lengua contest and the 2016 Pinch Literary Prize, and is a Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best New Poets nominee. Her work can be found at www.mt-poet.com.