Founded in 2025, Kinsfolk Review is a multi-genre literary magazine – a home for writers, artists and creators. We publish quarterly and it is a free-access magazine where we welcome voices from all backgrounds, offering a free platform to share your creative art. At our core, our mission is to cultivate a supportive community where everyone can share their creative work and find a true sense of belonging.
Kinsfolk is about belonging – a community where creativity is celebrated, and no one is alone in their art.
Team Kinsfolk
Founding Editor
Dorothy ZCK, born in Aizawl, a small town in northeastern India, was raised across Nagaland, Mizoram, and Shillong and now proudly calls Nagaland home. She holds a Master’s Degree in English Studies from IIT Madras, India, and during her undergraduate years, she was also a co-editor for the photoblog Humans of IITM, where she curated and shared personal stories from the campus community, reflecting her strong interest in storytelling and human-centered narratives. She recently concluded her role as an Assistant Professor after a fulfilling year in academia and is currently taking time to recharge and reflect before pursuing her next academic and professional goals.She takes an avid interest in tribal ethno-costumology and post-colonial literature (with particular focus on its thematic engagements with memory and trauma). Beyond academia, she is a Sunday school Superintendent and teacher at her local church and in her free time, she finds joy in art history, caring for her pets, and experimenting in the kitchen.
Executive Editor
Swetha S is a native of Coimbatore, a small city in India, and is currently residing in a corner of Miami, Florida. You can find her fiction and poetry in SoFloPoJo, Out of Print Magazine, and other literary magazines. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Miami and a BA in English with Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham. She has a soft spot for weird fiction-fiction that bends the rules of reality and breaks the rules of traditional fiction – and fiction that pays attention to endangered flora and fauna. When she’s not reading or writing, you can find her tending to her tiny backyard garden.
About Our Logo
The universal spiral has appeared in cultures throughout history as a symbol of interconnectedness within communities, families, and kinship. Our spiral logo reflects this spirit — a metaphor for the sense of belonging and community at the heart of Kinsfolk Magazine. It represents how distinct voices grow, converge, and form a wider creative circle, continually expanding outward while always returning to the core: a kinship where all voices meet, are celebrated, and no one is alone in their art.