Our Mission

At Midnight Breakfast, we’re looking for writing that will spark a conversation. We want to bring you back to late-night talks with good friends over greasy food. We are excited by fiction, personal essays, cultural criticism, and interviews. We believe in the serious, but we also believe that if you can’t make people laugh, you don’t deserve to make them think. We believe in craft and passion, and we want to support a community of artists that care about these things too. By paying our contributors, we show respect for the process and the challenge of creating original, dynamic work. Let’s share the intriguing and the humorous and the meaningful. Let’s sate our appetite. Let’s go for the gut.

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Rebecca Rubenstein

Editor-in-Chief
Rebecca likes to make words work. In addition to Midnight Breakfast, she is a freelance writer and editor, and is also the former interviews editor of The Rumpus and a former contributing editor for the short-lived but wonderful STET. She resides in San Francisco and can often be found thinking aloud on Twitter. The way to her heart is truly through breakfast (or brunch, if it’s the weekend).

Nevan Scott

Managing Editor
Nevan lives in New York, makes websites with Cantilever, teaches people how to make websites at General Assembly, and designed and built this here very website. Websites, websites, websites.

F. Taylor Pavlik

Associate Editor, Marketing & Publicity Manager
F. Taylor Pavlik is a writer, editor, and marketer living in Brooklyn. His fiction has been published in The Blood Orange Review and Cantaraville, and he’s received some pretty encouraging rejection letters from the Mid-American Review and the Black Warrior Review.

Ashley Perez

Social Media Editor, Reader
Ashley Perez lives, writes, and participates in other shenanigans in Los Angeles, California. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a regular contributor to BLEED (at Jaded Ibis Press) and runs the literary blog, Arts Collide. Ashley’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Weekenders Magazine, BLEED, Drunk Monkeys, The Weeklings, and First Time: An Anthology About Lost Virginity. You can also find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide.

Lauren O’Neal

Copyeditor, Reader
Lauren O’Neal is a freelance writer and editor working toward an MFA in creative writing in San Francisco. She has written for publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Rumpus, where she was formerly an assistant editor. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.

Submissions Info

We’re currently open for fiction, nonfiction, and interview submissions. For more info on what and how to submit, visit our submissions page.

Are you an illustrator interested in working with us? We’d love to hear from you.

For all other queries, please drop us a line at hello@midnightbreakfast.com.