bio
Hayley Veilleux is a writer & photographer living on unceded Kansa, Osage, and Otoe homelands (today called Kansas City). Her writing has appeared in The Pitch, Sepia Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, and Kansas City Magazine. She is a former Writers for Readers Fellow and she co-founded the artists' collective, Dead Peasant. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
University of Missouri - Kansas City | 2024
B.S. in Writing
B.S. in Digital Media
Northwest Missouri State University | 2019
Publications
The Normal School, Words that Stay & other photographs (2026)
Black Warrior Review, Poem: “My Rage Era” 2025
Red Rock Review | Issue 53 Cover Art; Auburn Grass. (2024)
The Pitch, Opinion: “MO Taxpayers Should Be Extremely Concerned About...” 2022
New Letters, Book Review: “Have You Considered Chemistry?” 2021
Sepia Quarterly, Poem: “Another Day Another Disco” 2021
Art Exhibitions
Gallery 1516, Regional Photography Biennial | Omaha, NE | 2024
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Juried Student Exhibition | St. Joseph, MO | 2019
Olive DeLuce Art Gallery, Juried Student Exhibition | Maryville, MO | 2018
Awards and Fellowships
Maya Angelou Book Award Fellowship | 2022-2023
Writers for Readers Fellowship | 2021 - 2022
Mattie Dykes Award for Creative Writing | 2019
State Fair Creative Writing Award, 1st Place | 2015
Professional Background
Marketing, Communications & Media Coordinator | Jan 2025. - Present
Center for Hazardous Substance Research
Writing Instructor | Aug - Dec 2024
Avila University, Kansas City, MO
Social Media Graduate Assistant | Aug 2023 - May 2024
Applied Language Institute, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Fellow | 2022 – 2023
Maya Angelou Book Award, Kansas City, MO
Writing Instructor | 2021 – 2022
Freelance Photographer | Feb 2021 - Present
Editorial Work
Editor
Number One Magazine, grad student-run literary & art journal | 2023 - 2024
Editor & Co-founder
Dead Peasant Magazine | 2020 - Present
Productions Intern
Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast | 2021 – 2022
Prose Intern
New Letters Magazine | 2021 – 2022
Prose Intern & Photographer
Laurel Review | 2018 - 2019
Ad Designer
NW Missourian | 2018 - 2019
Editor
Medium Weight Forks, undergraduate-run literary journal | 2018 - 2019