About

Welcome to Black Fox Literary Magazine! We are an international print and online publication with eclectic taste, committed to showcasing some of the best contemporary short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. Our pages are filled with works that are fresh, innovative, emotional, and thought-provoking, selected by passionate editors who love to discover new voices and promote established ones.

Black Fox was officially founded in 2010 by Racquel Henry, Pamela Harris, and Marquita Hockaday after meeting through their MFA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. The first issue of Black Fox was published in the summer of 2011. Today, it is owned and operated by Racquel Henry. 

Here at Black Fox, we believe that literature and art have the power to connect people and inspire change. One of our goals is to create a community of readers, writers, and artists who share this belief, and who are dedicated to exploring the world through creativity and imagination. We hope you’ll join us on this journey! We publish both established and new writers. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from under-represented genres and styles.

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Racquel Henry, Editor in Chief

Racquel Henry is a Trinidadian writer, editor, and writing coach with an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She also owns and operates the writing studio, Writer’s Atelier in Maitland, FL. Racquel has been a featured author, presenter, and moderator at writing conferences and MFA residencies across the US. She is the author of Holiday on Park, Letter to Santa, Christmas in Cardwick, The Write Gym Workbook, and The Writer’s Atelier Little Book of Writing Affirmations. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. When she’s not working, you can find her watching Hallmark Christmas movies.

Email: racquel@blackfoxlitmag.com
Web: www.racquelhenry.com
Instagram and Twitter: @RacquelHenry

Elizabeth Sheets, Managing Editor

Elizabeth Sheets is a writer and an editorial assistant for the Journal of Proteome Research. She earned a MA in Narrative Studies from Arizona State University. As a student, Elizabeth developed a passion for prison education. She has taught writing classes inside local prisons and corresponds with inmate writers about their creative work. Elizabeth enjoys a wide variety of different reading material. Some of her favorite authors are Elizabeth Gilbert, John Jakes, Roxane Gay, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Brandon Mull, Aimee Bender, and J.K. Rowling. Elizabeth’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in Kalliope – A Consortium of New Voices, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Mulberry Fork Review, and Apeiron Review.

Email: elizabeth@blackfoxlitmag.com
Twitter: @BethSSheets

Heather Lang-Cassera, Poetry Editor

Heather Lang-Cassera is a full-time lecturer with Nevada State College, a Tolsun Books publisher, a 300 Days of Sun Faculty Advisor, and a Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate Emeritus. She was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. She is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), which was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council grant and won the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political. Her next collection of poems, a book of ecopoems with the working title of Firefall, has been acquired by Unsolicited Press for publication in 2025.

Marissa Artrip, Reader

Marissa Artrip is a Cleveland born writer with a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Ohio University. She interned with Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and her work has appeared in Sphere. Some of her favorite authors are Claire Vaye Watkins, Rebecca Yarros, and Ali Hazelwood. When she’s not reading or writing, she is sweating profusely in a power yoga class, learning to crochet, or going to brunch with friends.

Annie Flores, Reader

Annie Flores received an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester, UK. She is the co-founder of the Paper Dragon Small Press Fair (@paperdragonfair) and the owner of Blue Jay Books (@bluejay_vintage_atx) in Austin, Texas. As well as a writer, she is also a singer and actor. Her first book, Death Is A Little Thing will be completed “eventually.”

Monica Flores, Reader

Monica Flores was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. She is currently a senior at Nevada State College, majoring in English with a minor in  Creative Writing. During her free time she enjoy reading comic books and fiction stories, playing guitar, playing her Nintendo Switch, and hanging out with her husband, dogs, and cats. She currently owns a small business, Phyto’s Vegan Eats which is a small vegan hot dog cart pop-up, and is a passionate animal advocate who partakes animal activism. Monica is an aspiring writer and hopes to share her stories with the world.

Rachel Gonzalez, Reader

Rachel Gonzalez is a writer from Goodyear, Arizona. She holds a BA in English with certificates in Creative Writing and Literature, and will be finishing her MA in English Literature this winter. She is the acting writer-in-residence for The Fictional Cafe. An avid hiker and rock climber, she never leaves the house without a book or a pen. Some of her favorite authors are John Green, Becky Chambers, Fredrik Backman, Forrest Leo, Isabel Allende, TJ Klune, Cherrie Moraga, and JRR Tolkien.

Bernie Groves, Reader

Bernie Groves is a Connecticut-born, Georgia-raised, Chicago-based writer with publications in Arkana Literary Magazine, Welter Literary Journal, MASKS Magazine, Under a Warm Green Linden, and other literary journals. An MFA graduate from Columbia College Chicago, Bernie is currently working on a hybrid magical-realist novel. You can stay up to date on Bernie’s latest projects here: https://berniegroves.wordpress.com/.

Arniecea Johnson, Reader

Arniecea Johnson is an emerging fiction writer in Chicago, IL. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia College Chicago and has been a Fiction Judge for the annual Young Authors Writing Competition. Her short stories have been published in Masks and Kansas City Voices. When she’s not writing or reading, Arniecea enjoys visiting aesthetically pleasing brunch spots and watching horror films, good or bad. 

Liana Johnson, Reader

Liana Johnson is a writer living in New York City. Her work appears in the South Shore Review and is forthcoming in MoonPark Review. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Coley Lea, Reader

Coley Lea is a writer and transcriptionist from Baltimore, Maryland. Between workshops, local readings, and tucking handmade zines into little free libraries, they can be found baking and making things with their two young children, going to punk shows, and building elaborate Lego sets. Their special interests include Tolkien’s legendarium and coastal wildlife.

H. Rae Monk, Reader

H. Rae Monk is a writer based in Mesa, Arizona. She was the first graduate from the Narrative Studies MA program at ASU and holds a BA from ASU in English: Creative Writing with a focus in Fiction. Some of her favorite writers are Anthony Horowitz, Joy Harjo, Matt Goldman, Dina Nayeri, Philip Pullman and J.R.R. Tolkein.

Elizabeth Monreal, Reader

Elizabeth Monreal is a Mexican-American woman who lives in Las Vegas. She studies Secondary Education at Nevada State University and works with high school art, music, and theater students across the performing arts department. In her free time, she enjoys playing the violin, reading, writing, and staying up late playing chess.

Erick Giovanni Monrrigo, Reader

Erick Giovanni Monrrigo is a first-generation Latino born of Central American parents living in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a BA in Creative Writing. He enjoys outdoor cafés and the smell of used bookstores.

Lillian Morton, Reader

Lillian Morton is an MFA student who lives in Seattle, Washington. A few of her favorite authors include Ursula Le Guin, Lois Lowry, and Sylvia Plath. Her poetry has been included in Polaris and Laurel Moon. You can find her trying to recklessly spend money at Pike Place Market and looking at pictures of schnauzers on her phone. Instagram: @ogreslug.

Kait Quinn, Reader

Kait Quinn (she/her) is a Minneapolis-based poet with a B.A. in English Writing from St. Edward’s University. She is the author of four poetry collections, and her work has appeared in Reed Magazine, Watershed Review, Olney Magazine, Chestnut Review, and elsewhere. She received first place in the League of MN Poets’ 2022 John Calvin Rezmerski Memorial Grand Prize and honoroable mention in the 2023 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize. She enjoys repetition, coffee shops, vegan breakfast foods, and spending time with her partner, their regal cat, and their very polite Aussie Mix.

William Swift, Reader

William Swift is an emerging short fiction author and Caption Editor for the Video Caption Corporation. He is a recent graduate of the University of Sheffield, but now resides in the United States. He is passionate about paleontology, Manchester United, and exploring the little interests he uncovers every day. 

Alexander Lazarus Wolff, Reader

Alexander Lazarus Wolff’s writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry website, Poets.org, The Citron Review, NDQ, The Society of Classical Poets, South Florida Poetry Journal, Main Street Rag, Serotonin, and elsewhere. He graduated with honors from the College of William & Mary, where he won The Academy of American Poets Prize. He is a poetry editor for The Plentitudes. An MFA candidate, he teaches and studies at the University of Houston, where he is the recipient of three fellowships. You can find him on Facebook, Instagram/Twitter: @wolffalex108, and at www.alexanderlazaruswolff.com.

Alex Wollinka, Reader

Alex Wollinka lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she is studying English at Colorado College. She has interned with Dzanc Books and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Cipher Magazine, a student-led publication. She enjoys writing short stories and novels, and she also works as a consultant at her college’s Writing Center. In her free time, Alex can be found painting, running, watching horror movies, and of course, reading. Some of her favorite authors include Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Clarice Lispector, Franz Kafka, and Neil Gaiman.

Former Editors

Pam Harris (Founding)

Pam Harris lives in Williamsburg, VA and spent seven years as a middle school counselor. Currently, she is interning at a family counseling center, and when she isn’t helping families resolve conflicts, she’s writing contemporary YA fiction (and has also recently started writing middle grade). Some of her favorite authors are Ellen Hopkins, Courtney Summers, Jodi Picoult, and Stephen King. You can also find her at the movie theaters every weekend or pretending to enjoy exercising. She received her MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2012, and will soon receive her PhD in Counselor Education at the College of William and Mary.

Blog: seepamwrite.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pamharriswrites

Marquita Hockaday (Founding)

Marquita “Quita” Hockaday also lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is an educator who has never been able to shake her love of writing and reading. There is always, always a book near her. Marquita is currently enjoying writing young adult (historical and contemporary)—and most recently wrote her first middle grade novel with co-editor, Pam. Some of her favorite authors are Laurie Halse Anderson, Blake Nelson, Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates. Marquita also graduated with an MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2012, and is beginning to work toward her doctoral degree in Virginia.

Blog: seepamwrite.blogspot.com
Twitter: @KeeKeeHockaday