Publisher
Rob Greene (North Carolina)
Editor-in-Chief
Landon Houle (South Carolina)
Editors
Jessica Pitchford | Fiction Editor (South Carolina)
Chelsea Harlan | Poetry Editor (Virginia)
Sam Piccone | Poetry Editor (Iowa)
Shel Senai | Assistant Fiction Editor (Massachusetts)
Erin Osborne | Assistant Fiction Editor (Oregon)
Elaina Ellis | Senior Copyeditor (Washington)
Charlene Pierce | Copyeditor (Nebraska)
Editorial Staff
Dailihana Alfonseca | Fiction (South Carolina)
Alex Bryan | Fiction ( London, England)
Chas Carey | Fiction (Massachusetts)
Madison Cyr | Fiction (Indiana)
Erika Kielsgard | Poetry (Virginia)
Heather Lang-Cassera | Poetry (Nevada)
Robert McCready | Fiction (South Carolina)
Kelly McCorkdale | Fiction (Washington D.C.)
Jeff McLaughlin | Fiction (Minnesota & France)
Allison Frase Reavis | Fiction (Arkansas)
Marty Saunders | Poetry (Berlin)
Melanie Tafejian | Poetry (Washington State)
Matthew Turbeville | Fiction (South Carolina)
Other Staff
Al Olson | Layout Designer (South Dakota)
Nora Beers Kelly | Illustrator (Montréal, Quebec)
Leah Poole Osowski | Advisory Poetry Editor (Pennsylvania)
D. Eric Parkison | Consulting Poetry Editor (Massachusetts)
Tyree Daye | Poetry Workshop Instructor (North Carolina)
Maggie Busch | Social Media Coordinator (North Carolina)
Alexander Gast | Publishing Intern (UNC Chapel Hill)
Board of Directors
Joseph Millar | Chairman
Dorianne Laux | Vice Chair
Landon Houle | Member
Bryce Emley | Member
Will Badger | Member
Tyree Daye | Member
Rob Greene | Member
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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 three poetry collections including 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.
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, andz 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,
Elaina Ellis (Senior Copyeditor at Raleigh Review) is a literary editor, writer, andz 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.
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 Jo
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.
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.
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.
Chelsea Harlan (Poetry Editor) 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
Chelsea Harlan (Poetry Editor) 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.
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.
D. Eric Parkison 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.
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.
Kelly McCorkendale (Fiction Team Member) is a DC-based, Missouri-bred writer who manages proposals by day and writes in her spare time. She previously wrote reviews for DC Theatre Scene, currently writes for Atlanta’s annual Dragon Con, and, in 2020, wrote her first short story after a seventeen-year hiatus from creative writing. During
Kelly McCorkendale (Fiction Team Member) is a DC-based, Missouri-bred writer who manages proposals by day and writes in her spare time. She previously wrote reviews for DC Theatre Scene, currently writes for Atlanta’s annual Dragon Con, and, in 2020, wrote her first short story after a seventeen-year hiatus from creative writing. During those years, she learned to speak Malagasy, shower with one bucket of water, and quilt very poorly.
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.
Alex Bryan (Fiction Team Member) is from London, England. He holds a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Portsmouth, an MSc in American Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and is an incoming student for the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. He has previously worked with Time Out London and The London Magazine.
Marty Saunders (Poetry Team) is from Pittsburgh. He’s the recipient of a grant from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Shipsey Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems have appeared in Passages North, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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.
Matthew Turbeville (Fiction Team Member) is a librarian based primarily in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, where he also writes fiction, most recently published in the South Carolina Review and storySouth, as well as nonfiction pieces and interviews in CrimeReads.
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.
Maggie Busch is a recent graduate from Appalachian State University and holds a B.A. in English, creative writing. During her time at App, she was the Visual Outreach Coordinator for The Peel Literary Arts Magazine. She is also a graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute through the University of Denver.
Alexander Gast
(2024-25 Publishing Intern) studies creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poetry is featured or forthcoming in Oyster River Pages,
Ghost City Review, and Shooter Literary Magazine.
Heather Lang-Cassera (Raleigh Review Poetry Team Member) is the poetry editor for Black Fox Literary Magazine. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Nevada State University. Heather is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), which was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council grant and won the NY
Heather Lang-Cassera (Raleigh Review Poetry Team Member) is the poetry editor for Black Fox Literary Magazine. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Nevada State University. Heather is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), which was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council grant and won the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political. Her next collection, Firefall, a book of ecopoems, is forthcoming with Unsolicited Press in 2025.
Erika Kielsgard (Raleigh Review Poetry Team Member) is a writer, singer, and artist from the Mid-Atlantic United States. She holds an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College and a BA in psychology from George Mason University, where she currently teaches. Their debut chapbook, Lamprey (Harvard Square Press, 2024), was selected by Diane Seu
Erika Kielsgard (Raleigh Review Poetry Team Member) is a writer, singer, and artist from the Mid-Atlantic United States. She holds an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College and a BA in psychology from George Mason University, where she currently teaches. Their debut chapbook, Lamprey (Harvard Square Press, 2024), was selected by Diane Seuss as winner of the 2023 International 3-Day Poetry Chapbook Contest. Erika’s work has found generous homes in Bone Bouquet, Cordella Magazine, Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation, Maudlin House, Paperbark Literary Magazine, The Penn Review, Volume, and others.
Madison Cyr (Raleigh Review Fiction Team).
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 publisher
of Raleigh Review, and he is a father of four.
Raleigh Review recognizes the following team members
for their years of generous contributions of their time & talent:
Garrett Davis | Copyeditor (2020-2024)
Madison Cyr | Fiction (2021-2024)
Susan Finch | Fiction (2021-2024)
Ina Cariño | Poetry Editorial Staff (2018-2023)
Bryce Emley | co-Editor emeritus (2014-2023)
Daniel Tam-Claiborne | Fiction Editorial Staff (2018-2022)
John Patrick McShea | Layout Designer (2017-2021)
Daniel Rottenberg | Fiction Editorial Staff (2018-2021)
Lindsay Lake | Nonfiction & Poetry Staff (2019-2021)
Heather Bell Adams | Fiction Editorial Staff (2014-2021)
Kathrine Cays | Visual Art Editor (2014-2021)
Chris Wiewiora | Fiction Editorial Staff (2017-2021)
Christine Hennessey | Fiction Editorial Staff (2018-2021)
Amanda Bales | Fiction Editorial Staff (2017-2020)
Eric Cipriani | Copyeditor (2019-2020)
Arthur Powers | Board Member (2014-2020)
Cassie Mannes Murray | (2010-2012) & (2018-2020)
Chelsea Krieg | Poetry Editorial Staff (2016-2020)
Cady Vishniac | Copyeditor (2014-2019)
Selma Abdulhai | Intern for RR Loft Unspoken Word Open Mic Events (2012-2015)
Heather Bowlan | Assistant Poetry Editor (2013-2018)
Chase Burke | Fiction Editorial Staff (2016-2018)
Tyler Sutich-Neeb | Accounting Manager (2016-2018)
Tayler Heuston | Assistant Fiction Editor (2015-2017)
Meghan Purvis | Assistant Fiction Editor (2015-2017)
Chloe Campbell | Poetry Editorial Staff (2014-2017)
Zak Nelson | Fiction Editorial Staff (2015-2017)
Sejal Mehta | Board Secretary (2012-2017)
Lynn Otto | Newsletter Editor & Proofreader (2015-2016)
Henry Kivett | Art Editor-Cover (2011-2016)
Craig Lincoln | Fiction Editor (2013-2016)
Sierra Golden | Poetry Editor Emerita (2010-2015)
Karin Wiberg | Managing Editor & Board Secretary (2013-2015)
Susan Shah | Board Treasurer (2012-2015)
Hao Minh Nguyen | Fiction Editor (2013-2014)
Will Badger | Co-Founding Fiction Editor and Advisory Board (March 2010-June 2013)
Smriti Ravindra | Co-Founding Fiction Editor and Advisory Board (March 2010-June 2013)
Walt Wolfram | Board Member (March 2010-July 2013)
Tasha Gervais | Poetry Staff & Coordinating Editor (December 2010-November 2013)
Jake Young | Poetry Staff (August 2010 - January 2012)
Former Interns
Gia Minnis | BA '21 Saint Augustine's University
Da'Jah Jordan | BA '22 Saint Augustine's University
Christopher Ingram, Jr. | BA '22 Saint Augustine's University
Jeremee Jeter | BA '23 Saint Augustine's University
Alaina Haywood Jones | '23 Wake County Early College Intern
While we are so very grateful to our former and our current team members who have generously served with us for many years, there are some individuals who might insist they have a past history with us in some way who are left off our significant contributor list. Please understand, we are unable to discuss the reasons for their departures and we will only confirm the accurate dates an individual was with us in those cases.
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