Blood Tree Literature is a visually compelling home for black sheep art that sprouted from a seedling dream in 2017, first planted and nourished at an art school in the southwest. Meet the staff below and feel free to reach out at anytime regarding all things Blood Tree.
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August 18-31
Editor-in-Chief
Kylie Ayn Yockey earned her Master’s in Writing from Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann School of Writing. She is an independent book editor, a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine, and the Social Media Coordinator for EastOver Press + Cutleaf Journal. She was Blood Tree’s Poetry Editor for issues 05-14, the Managing Editor for Issue 15, and runs the marketing.
Administrative Assistant
Dani Rose earned her Bachelor’s in Creative Writing & Literature at Santa Fe University of Art & Design. Her cross-genre chapbook, Luniac, released in 2018.
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lee reid
founding editor
visual art editor Issues 01-14
Lee Reid 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 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 for Blood Tree on an ad hoc basis.
madeleine sardina
Fiction editor
issues 05-14
Madeleine Sardina 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
Chantelle Mitchell is a PhD candidate 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.
