| 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.