Our Staff

The Scribendi staff is composed of ten to twelve undergraduate honors students supervised by a faculty advisor. The staff is in charge of every decision and duty in the publication process, including recruiting submissions, selecting works for publication, proofreading, copy-editing, designing pages, typesetting, laying out text, publicizing the magazine and raising funds.

Staff members represent all majors, including Physics and Math as well as English and Fine Arts. Students must apply and interview to join the Scribendi staff, which is offered as a two-semester, 300-level class through the University of New Mexico Honors Program. Upperclassmen receive preference, and freshmen are not accepted to the staff. The magazine's editor and assistant editor are also undergraduate students who have applied and interviewed for their positions. Editors and assistant editors generally have worked on the Scribendi staff in previous years.

Students are expected to work on Scribendi projects for about 8 hours per week outside of class time to keep the magazine running smoothly. Staff members, including the editor and assistant editor, are not paid for being a part of Scribendi, but they receive two semesters (6 hours) of college credit for their work.