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Joseph Millar's newest collection Shine will be out in 2024 from Carnegie Mellon Press. Millar is the author of Dark Harvest, Blue Rust, Fortune, and Overtime. He teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, W.W. Norton. She is also author of The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Two new books are forthcoming in 2024: Finger Exercises for Poets, and a volume of
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, W.W. Norton. She is also author of The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Two new books are forthcoming in 2024: Finger Exercises for Poets, and a volume of poems, Life on Earth, both from W.W. Norton. Laux is founding faculty at Pacific University and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.
Landon Houle's novel, Living Things, won the Red Hen Fiction Prize judged by Charles Yu. Landon holds a Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University. She is editor-in-chief of Raleigh Review and an associate professor of English and creative writing at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC.
Will Badger holds an MFA from NC State and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Oxford. He was named Artist-in-Residence at the University of Utah's Rio Mesa Center in support of his novel-in-progress. In 2018-19 he was a fellow of the Writers Guild Foundation's Veterans Writing Project. Badger is a co-founding fiction editor and a co-incorporator of Raleigh Review.
Leah Poole Osowski is the author of hover over her (Kent State University Press 2016), winner of the Wick Poetry Prize, and Exceeds Us, forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2023. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina W
Leah Poole Osowski is the author of hover over her (Kent State University Press 2016), winner of the Wick Poetry Prize, and Exceeds Us, forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2023. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She was a former emerging writer in residence at Penn State Altoona and is the poetry editor of Raleigh Review.
Jessica Pitchford’s fiction has appeared in Prime Number Magazine, Extract(s), Gris-Gris, storySouth, and elsewhere. Her novel, Can’t Walk Out, was recently longlisted for the Regal House Publishing Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and shortlisted for the 2022 Howling Bird Press Fiction Prize. The former Editor-in-Chief of Pemb
Jessica Pitchford’s fiction has appeared in Prime Number Magazine, Extract(s), Gris-Gris, storySouth, and elsewhere. Her novel, Can’t Walk Out, was recently longlisted for the Regal House Publishing Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and shortlisted for the 2022 Howling Bird Press Fiction Prize. The former Editor-in-Chief of Pembroke Magazine, she now teaches writing and literature to high schoolers at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics as well as serves as Raleigh Review Fiction Editor.
Elaina Ellis (Senior Copyeditor at Raleigh Review) is a literary editor, writer, and curator. She spent a decade at Copper Canyon Press, where she served as Editor. Elaina is the author of the poetry collection Write About an Empty Birdcage, and has earned fellowships and awards from Jack Straw, Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, M
Elaina Ellis (Senior Copyeditor at Raleigh Review) is a literary editor, writer, and curator. She spent a decade at Copper Canyon Press, where she served as Editor. Elaina is the author of the poetry collection Write About an Empty Birdcage, and has earned fellowships and awards from Jack Straw, Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, Mineral School, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. She works as a freelance book editor and lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Garrett Davis is a graduate from Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina where he participated on their newspaper, The Falcon Forum, and their writing center. He was born and raised in Rochester, New York. Garrett serves as the copyeditor of Raleigh
Review.
Erin Osborne (Assistant Fiction Editor) is a writer and Library Media Assistant living in Beaverton, Oregon. Her fiction explores themes of stasis and imagination and has appeared in NOON Annual, Elohi Gadugi, M Review, and Habit. She holds a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing from Marylhurst University,
Erin Osborne (Assistant Fiction Editor) is a writer and Library Media Assistant living in Beaverton, Oregon. Her fiction explores themes of stasis and imagination and has appeared in NOON Annual, Elohi Gadugi, M Review, and Habit. She holds a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing from Marylhurst University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. In 2009, she received the first Jackie Mosier Emerging Writer Award, and in 2017 received her first Pushcart Special Mention. She lives with her daughter.
Shel Senai is queer, non-binary writer, creative and parent of two residing in Massachusetts. They hold an MFA in creative writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and their stories have appeared in The Keep Things, LEON Literary Review, Citron Review and Reservoir. Shel has received awards and residencies from A
Shel Senai is queer, non-binary writer, creative and parent of two residing in Massachusetts. They hold an MFA in creative writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and their stories have appeared in The Keep Things, LEON Literary Review, Citron Review and Reservoir. Shel has received awards and residencies from Aspen Words, Tin House’s Winter Workshop, the St. Botolph Club Foundation and, most recently, an artist fellowship from the Mass Cultural Council. Shel has been on the editorial staff at Raleigh Review since 2016 and presently serves as an Assistant Fiction Editor.
Dailihana Alfonseca (Fiction Team Member) is currently working on her Masters in Latino/a Studies with a focus on the cultural legacy of the African Diaspora and the marginalization of Caribbean Immigrants. She resides in South Carolina with her family and is a member of South Carolina Writers Association. Her poetry has previously appea
Dailihana Alfonseca (Fiction Team Member) is currently working on her Masters in Latino/a Studies with a focus on the cultural legacy of the African Diaspora and the marginalization of Caribbean Immigrants. She resides in South Carolina with her family and is a member of South Carolina Writers Association. Her poetry has previously appeared in The Bangalore Review, and her fiction recently appeared in Driftwood.
D. Eric Parkison (Poetry Team Member) received his MA in English from the University of Rochester and his MFA in Poetry from Boston University. His chapbook, No Arcadia, was released by Jane's Boy Press in August of 2020. He is a 2022 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship in poetry. He lives in Lynn, MA.
Robert McCready (Fiction Team Member) lives in Florence, South Carolina. His stories appear in Muu Muu House and elsewhere.
Samuel Piccone is the author of the chapbook Pupa (Anhinga Press, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including, Sycamore Review, Frontier Poetry, Washington Square Review, and RHINO. He received an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University, serves on the poetry staff at Raleigh Review, and is a lecturer at Iowa State University.
Melanie Tafejian (Poetry Team Member) is a writer and educator originally from the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Georgia Review, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, The Los Angeles Review, and Willow Springs, among other journals. She received an MFA from North Carolina State University, where she now lectures in the First Year Writing Program.
Madison Cyr (Fiction Team Member) is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She's been published previously in The Printer's Devil Review, Cape Rock, and Leon Literary Review (forthcoming). When not writing, Madison can be found either running, eating, or watching The Office on repeat ad Infinitum. She live
Madison Cyr (Fiction Team Member) is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She's been published previously in The Printer's Devil Review, Cape Rock, and Leon Literary Review (forthcoming). When not writing, Madison can be found either running, eating, or watching The Office on repeat ad Infinitum. She lives in Southern Indiana with her husband, Bobby. Together they share a rag-tag group of fur-babies that includes two dogs, and one very bossy cat. She is at work on her first novel.
Chas Carey (Fiction Team Member) works primarily in disaster management. A member of the "narrative technologist" collective Wolf 359, his writing has been or will soon be featured in outlets such as NPR's Live From Here, the American Public Media children's podcast Smash Boom Best, and the Hearth Gods reading series in New York City. He
Chas Carey (Fiction Team Member) works primarily in disaster management. A member of the "narrative technologist" collective Wolf 359, his writing has been or will soon be featured in outlets such as NPR's Live From Here, the American Public Media children's podcast Smash Boom Best, and the Hearth Gods reading series in New York City. He holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and lives in Massachusetts with his wife and their two children.
Allison Frase Reavis (Fiction Team Member) holds an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and currently resides with her family in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her favorite recent book is A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet.
Jeff McLaughlin (Fiction Team Member) was born in Nebraska, grew up in the Carolinas, went to college in Minnesota, and now lives in Paris with his family. He is revising his first novel, from which Burning is drawn. Other segments have appeared in december magazine, Kenyon Review Online, and The Olive Press.
Chelsea Harlan (Poetry Team Member) is the author of Bright Shade, selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2022 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize. She holds a BA from Bennington College, as well as an MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She lives in Appalachian Virginia, where sh
Chelsea Harlan (Poetry Team Member) is the author of Bright Shade, selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2022 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize. She holds a BA from Bennington College, as well as an MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She lives in Appalachian Virginia, where she was born and raised, and where she works at a small public library.
Annie Woodford (Poetry Team Member) is the author of Bootleg (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2019), which was a runner-up for the Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry. Her second book is the winner of Mercer University’s 2020 Adrienne Bond Prize and will be published in 2022. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journa
Annie Woodford (Poetry Team Member) is the author of Bootleg (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2019), which was a runner-up for the Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry. Her second book is the winner of Mercer University’s 2020 Adrienne Bond Prize and will be published in 2022. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner. She has been awarded scholarships to the Sewanee and Bread Loaf writers’ conferences as well as Barbara Deming Fund and Jean Ritchie fellowships. Originally from Bassett, Virginia—a mill town near the North Carolina border—she now teaches community college English in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
Susan Finch (Fiction Team Member) is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Crab Orchard Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod,
Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. Her fiction has received several awards, and most recently, she was se
Susan Finch (Fiction Team Member) is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Crab Orchard Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod,
Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. Her fiction has received several awards, and most recently, she was selected as the winner of New Ohio Review’s Editors Prize in fiction. Currently, she is working on a novel and a story collection.
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Al Olson (she/they) (Layout Designer) has an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. They enjoy making zines including, Women in Horror (essays using film theory to examine how women function in horror movies), Pickle Spirit Guide (interactive with magic dill, tarot card, and stickers) and Bummer Time (two-color r
Al Olson (she/they) (Layout Designer) has an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. They enjoy making zines including, Women in Horror (essays using film theory to examine how women function in horror movies), Pickle Spirit Guide (interactive with magic dill, tarot card, and stickers) and Bummer Time (two-color risograph printed illustrations depicting summer depression.) You can find their poetry in The Racket.
Charlene Pierce writes from Nebraska and founded the Nebraska Poetry Society. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the Nebraska anthologies Misbehaving Nebraskans, How it Looks from Here and Voices of the Plains. Her poetry appeared in The Good Life Review, Page and Spine, BlazeVOX, Literary Yard, and others. She published The Poet's Jou
Charlene Pierce writes from Nebraska and founded the Nebraska Poetry Society. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the Nebraska anthologies Misbehaving Nebraskans, How it Looks from Here and Voices of the Plains. Her poetry appeared in The Good Life Review, Page and Spine, BlazeVOX, Literary Yard, and others. She published The Poet's Journal: A Beginner's Workbook for Writing Poetry. By day, she is a freelance writer appearing on websites and blogs across the country and local magazines.
Bryce Emley is the author of the prose chapbooks A Brief Family History of Drowning (winner of the 2018 Sonder Press Chapbook Prize) and Smoke and Glass (Folded Word, 2018). A Narrative 30 Below 30 poet. Bryce works as a content writer and is Co-Editor emeritus of Raleigh Review having served on the magazine from 2014-2023.
Nora Beers Kelly (Illustrator at Raleigh Review) is from Montréal, Quebec. Her notable clients include Concordia University, Plateau Astro, Temps Libres, The Tyee, The New York Times, and many other establishments.
Rob Greene is the founder and the publisher of Raleigh Review. He has taught creative writing, Literature, and literary publishing at Saint Augustine's University since 2018.
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