| MEET OUR EDITORS |
| MEET OUR EDITORS |
Issue 04 Editors
Rachel Allen
Rachel Allen is a Punjabi American writer and educator from Southern California. Currently she is an MFA candidate at The Writer’s Foundry where she is researching regional identity and performance, and Celtic and Hindu Mythology. Find Rachel’s creative nonfiction essays, travel diary, and Newsletter at champagnewishesandcurrydreams.com.
Hayley Barnes
Hayley Barnes is a poet, writing teacher, and pastry cook based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's University. Her work has appeared in Borrowed Solace.
Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Bess Jaffe is a writer, visual artist, and MFA candidate at the Writer's Foundry. She is also a senior executive producer at Penguin Random House Audio, where she works with authors like Hanif Abdurraqib, Kaveh Akbar, Garrard Conley, Hernan Diaz, Mariana Enriquez, Melissa Febos, Lauren Groff, Rachel Khong, Rebecca Makkai, Tommy Orange, Helen Oyeyemi, Torrey Peters, Karen Russell, Timothy Snyder, Rebecca Solnit, Olga Tokarczuk, Sally Wen Mao, Jacqueline Woodson, and many, many more. Sarah's writing has been published in Fusion Fragment, JAKE, and elsewhere, and she will be a 2025 summer writer-in-residence at La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts in Noyers-sur-Serein, France. She is thrilled to be a co-editor at WFR.
Paige McHatten
Paige McHatten is a first year student at the Writer's Foundry. A writer of both poetry and prose, her work has been published by Bottlecap Press and Spectra Poets. She is the former editor of The Open Field: the University of Maine's Undergraduate Literary Magazine.
Fi Makris
Fi (F.M Papaz) is a Greek-Australian writer and educator who moved to New York for love and has loved staying to build a life in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Distance Makes the Heart Grow (Feb, 2024) is about conquering the 10,000 mile long-distance relationship that brought her here. Her poems have been published in literary magazines in the United States and Australia. She currently serves as the Managing Editor of Milk Press as well as in Marketing and teaching workshops for the Poetry Society of New York. Find her @fmpapaz on social media or her website fmpapaz.com.
Katherine Nolan
Katherine Nolan is a Brooklyn-based writer. She enjoys fermented foods, small towns, and overhead conversations. Her forklift certification has lapsed.
Kaci MoDavis
Kaci MoDavis (she/her) is a first year MFA candidate at The Writer’s Foundry. Originally from Pennsylvania, she got her BA in Sociology and Creative Writing from Susquehanna University. She enjoys literary fiction, gritty poetry, and the occasional speculative piece - always looking for stories that leave readers thirsty for more.
Our Past Editors
The Canopy Review
01
Meher Manda
Sharmaine Ong
Renae Williams
Crystal Yeung
02
Paul Corning
Danielle James
Ali Micelli
Walker Minot
Susan Moon
Nina Semczuk
Harris Stevens
Tom Storch
LaToya Wilson
The Writer’s Foundry Review
01
Deniqua Campbell
Paul Corning
Walker Minot
Nina Semczuk
Tom Storch
02
Deniqua Campbell
Paul Corning
Mark Iosifescu
Frank Jackson
Melody Rose Serra
Ashley-Devon Williamston
03
Hayley Barnes
Tim Coover
Michael Knapp
Jeniffer Lopez
Katherine Nolan
t.n.s.