The Rumpus is an online literary magazine founded by Stephen Elliott, and launched on January 20, 2009.

[1] The site features interviews, book reviews, essays, comics, and critiques of creative culture as well as original fiction and poetry.

[5] The Rumpus has fostered writers, artists, and editors like Roxane Gay who served as Essays Editor and who credits the site for developing her audience,[6] Isaac Fitzgerald who served as managing editor before moving to BuzzFeed to help create BuzzFeed Books,[7] Rick Moody, Wendy MacNaughton, Paul Madonna, Peter Orner, Yumi Sakugawa, Steve Almond, and Cheryl Strayed, who began her "Dear Sugar" advice column on the site.

[10] In January 2017, The Rumpus was purchased by Marisa Siegel,[11] previously the site's managing editor.

[12] Siegel was editor-in-chief and owner of The Rumpus for five years, before selling the magazine to Alyson Sinclair in January 2022.