The Wake Forest Review is a literary magazine founded in 2023 by Katelyn Andell. A published writer of short fiction and finalist for the 2023 Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Katelyn and her husband Evan moved to Wake Forest in 2015 for its authentic charm and community spirit. Now a mom of two young daughters, Katelyn hopes to capture and preserve this spirit in the digital and paper pages of The Wake Forest Review.

The Editorial Board also includes:

Ashley Hogan teaches composition and creative writing at Meredith College. She holds an MA in Literature and Fiction Writing from NC State. She is director of the Meredith College creative writing minor and runs Meredith’s summer writing programs, including workshops for women, high school students, and young writers. She has published essays, short stories, and poems in a variety of journals and periodicals.

Caden Halberg is majoring in Professional Writing and Rhetoric at Elon University. He graduated from Wake Forest High School in 2022. He enjoys track and field, visiting New England, and reading African-American literature and works by Douglas Adams.

Apple Plotnick Jannotta is a Virginia-born short story writer, and realistic fiction author. Her current Washington State Artist's Trust literary grant-winning work, The Market, is a dystopian fiction novel, which aims to evoke a modern vision of “The Jungle” through a futuristic Amazon-dot-com warehouse-like environment. She has been published in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine and won an ACLU award for her poetry. She is a graduate of Kenyon College, and holds a Merited Master’s degree in International Security from the University of Birmingham. A CIA recruit, she is known for weaving economics and geopolitics into her morality-based fiction. Apple writes from Wake Forest, NC. Reach her at booksbyapple.com.

Darian Kiener is an author and poet from Wake Forest, NC. He graduated in December of 2023 with a B.A in English from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. His writing has been featured in The Coraddi Fine Arts Magazine, Atlantis Creative Magazine, and The Wake Forest Review, along with a few others. In his free time, he enjoys watching and playing hockey, reading, cooking and learning. Some of his interests include astronomy, history, and philosophy. He has high hopes to get accepted into graduate school to study post-modern literature and poetry.