Features Editor

Evan C. Loving (he/him), MFA, is a poet, arts educator, and editor from Boston, MA, USA. Evan’s poetry intersperses panoramic scenes with dense, heat-forged phrases that explore themes of selfhood, home, and mythology through the lens of Blackness, masculinity, and the legacy of Jazz Legend Charlie Parker. He earned his MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark and lives in South Jersey with his partner and their cat. His poems are published in Lampblack Lit, Apogee Journal, Grub Street, Juked, The Offing, Lumina Journal, Wildness x Platypus Press, and others.

Reviews Editor

Gabriela Adamcyzk (she/her) brings a Master's in Literary Criticism from Jagiellonian University and a background that blends communications, climate-focused journalism, and activism. Her work is all about building bridges, exploring different lenses, and thinking beyond standardized boundaries.

Creative Nonfiction Editor

Christa Lei (they/them) is a multi-genre writer born and raised in Hawai'i. Their work has appeared in HerStry, Vast Chasm and Beyond Queer Words, amongst others. Christa's work has been supported by Tin House, DISQUIET and Southampton Writers Conference. They are a seasoned facilitator and speaker with their appearances at the 2025 Southwest Love Fest and 2024 Midwest Love Fest. They live with their spouse and two dogs in New York, USA. Find them at christalei.me or isthiswhatyouwant.org

Creative Nonfiction Editor

Dianangelica Gomez (she/her/ella) holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a minor in Writing. Her writing has been published in The Vernal Pool. During her free time she enjoys reading romance books and has a current obsession with Cherry Coke. She looks forward to reading all the wonderful submissions and being part of the BTL team! 

Fiction Editor

Chelsea Gibbons (she/her) earned her BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College while beginning her publishing career as copy editor for various Emerson publications. She is the Associate Editor and Publicist at Dzanc Books and has worked with award-winning authors in every step of the publication process. Originally from Massachusetts, USA, Chelsea now resides in Philadelphia.

Fiction Editor

Lily Wellington (she/her) is a writer from New York City, USA. She loves loud stories with wild characters and political satire, and quiet stories where the simplest words make the biggest impact. She also loves vintage clothes, weird looking dogs, and buying catch-all dishes with nothing to put in them. 

Fiction Editor

Taylor Holmes (she/her) earned her Master’s in English from George State University. She is a Prose Reader for West Trade Review and was a Course Adoption Intern for Tupelo Press.

Poetry Reader

William Zhuang (he/him) is a writer from Qingdao, China. He recently graduated from Tufts University after studying in the US for a decade. He is based in New York.

Poetry Reader

Sonia Tam (she/her) earned her Bachelor's in English and Asian Studies with a minor in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Administrative Assistant

Dani Rose (she/any) earned her Bachelor’s in Creative Writing & Literature at Santa Fe University of Art & Design. Her cross-genre chapbook, Luniac, released in 2018.

Poetry Reader

rae diamond (they/them preferred, she/her okay) is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary creator, educator, healer, and environmentalist. Their books include the hybrid collection, floating bones (First Matter Press), and the eco-fabulist Cantigee Oracle (North Atlantic Books). Their reviews appear in Tupelo Quarterly and Barrelhouse, and their poems may be found in Petrichor, Wild Roof, BlazeVOX, and others. Rae is a freelance editor, leads nature-inspired writing workshops, studies and teaches Qigong, creates mysterious music and drawings, and communes daily with the wild. They live among cedars, seals, and barred owls on Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla land (Olympia, WA, USA). Find them on Substack, Instagram, LinkedIn, and the Coiling Breath Institute.

Editor-in-Chief

Kylie Ayn Yockey (she/it) earned her Master’s in Writing from the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University. She is an independent book editor, a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine, and the Social Media Coordinator for EastOver Press + Cutleaf Journal. She is the acting Hybrid Editor for Blood Tree, runs the marketing, and was previously Poetry Editor for issues 05-14 and the Managing Editor for the Issue 15 Legacy Print. 

lee reid

founding editor
visual art editor Issues 01-14

Lee Reid (she/her) founded Blood Tree Literature in 2017 and was the sole editor for issues 01 through 04. Her work can be found in Hippocampus Magazine, The A3 Review, Glyph, and in her self-published chapbook, The Shade Our Bodies Make (2017). She currently works as a metalsmith, but always comes back to water her roots.

Amaya Koss

Feedback editor
Issues 05-14

Amaya L. Koss (she/her) is a speculative fiction and nonfiction writer. She’s the former editor-in-chief of Santa Fe University of Art & Design’s literary magazine Glyph and has been published in Capricious Magazine, Welcome to the Future Anthology, and Concis Magazine. Amaya continues to read Prose for Blood Tree part-time.

madeleine sardina

Fiction editor
issues 05-14

Madeleine Sardina (she/her) is a writer of all things weird and magical. She’s been published in Psychopomp Magazine, Entropy, 45th Parallel, and elsewhere. She is a former assistant editor of Psychopomp Magazine and Santa Fe University of Art & Design’s literary magazine Glyph. She can be found in blurry photographs in the forests of Colorado.

Chantelle mitchell

Hybrid editor
Issues 05-06

Dr. Chantelle Mitchell (she/her) earned her PhD at the University of Denver. She likes ruminating, genre blending, liminal language, and values cross-cultural work that steps outside and inside of the self simultaneously. She hails from the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada, where she can crust over and then write about it again and again.