From a seedling dream in 2017, first planted and nourished at an art school in the southwest, sprouted Blood Tree Literature, a visually compelling home for black sheep art. Meet the staff down below and feel free to reach out at anytime regarding any and all things Blood Tree.

kylie Ayn yockey
Poetry editor

Kylie Ayn Yockey (she/her) is a queer southern creative and Best of the Net 2020 nominee with a MA from Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann School of Writing. Her work has been published in various print and digital journals. She has edited for books, Glyph Magazine, The Louisville Review, Ink & Voices, and Good River Review. She is also a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine and the Social Media Coordinator for EastOverPress + Cutleaf Journal.

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lee reid
founding editor
visual art editor, Issues 01-14

Lee Reid founded Blood Tree Literature in 2018 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.

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 editor of Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s literary magazine Glyph, assistant editor of Psychopomp Magazine, and fiction editor of Blood Tree Literature. She can be found in blurry photographs in the forests of Colorado.

Amaya Koss
Critique editor, Issues 05-14

Amaya L. Koss is a speculative fiction and nonfiction writer. Her work revolves around the bizarre nature of human emotion and strives to tell a story that is both absurd and relatable. Amaya is the former editor in chief of Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s literary magazine Glyph and she has been published in Capricious Magazine, Welcome to the Future Anthology, and Concis Magazine. She is passionate about punctuation, metaphors, genitals, and the overlap.

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.