Raleigh Review Team

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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.

  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.  

 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. 

  A lifelong North Carolinian, Heather Bell Adams is the author of Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press) and The Good Luck Stone (Haywire Books). Her short stories appear in New Letters, North Carolina Literary Review, The Thomas Wolfe Review, failbetter, Orange Blossom Review, Reckon Review, and elsewhere. She was North Carolina’s 2022 Piedmont Laureate.

 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.

 Kit Evans is a nonbinary poet and writer, born and raised in Oregon. He is a current MFA candidate at Pacific University. His poetry has appeared in THRUSH, Hiram Poetry Review, Vagabond City Lit, the Saint and Sinners SASFest 2025 anthology, among others. He resides in Albany, Oregon with his best friend, two cats and several reptiles.

 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.

 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. 

 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. 

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. He is currently a board member.

  Heather Lang-Cassera (Raleigh Review Poetry Team Member) served as the Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate (2019-2021) and was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. She is the poetry editor for Black Fox Literary Magazine and teaches Creative Writing at Nevada State University. She is author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021) and Firefall (Unsolicited Press, 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 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. 

 Alex Webster is a poet from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work appears in Frontier Poetry and Cimarron Review. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University as well as an MA from Missouri State.

 Mackensie Pless is a writer originally from southeastern North Carolina. She currently lives in Raleigh, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from North Carolina State University and now works in academic publishing.

  James Parker (he/they) is a second year MFA candidate at Georgia College and State University. They plan to teach high school English upon graduation. He writes poetry about growing up queer in the South. Their chapbook Trans Boy Corset released from Kith Books in May 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.

 William Chen is a freshman at Duke, and a 2025 YoungArts Winner in Nonfiction. His creative work—centered on revealing seemingly contradicting social identities—has been recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English and the Virginia B. Ball Creative Writing Scholarship Program, among others. He is currently drafting his debut memoir, which explores his upbringing between two religious faiths.

 Rob Greene is the founder of Raleigh Review. He received his Ph.D. from University of Birmingham in England, and his MFA and his Bachelors from NC State University in the USA. His poems appeared in the 2025 World Poetry Project anthology out of New Delhi, the Best New Poets anthology, War: Literature & the Arts (US Air Force Academy), Tar River, Poem-a-Day, among several other fine magazines and venues. Greene is a multi-genre writer, and he is a father of four.