bio
Hayley Veilleux is a writer & photographer living on unceded Kansa, Osage, and Otoe homelands (modern-day Kansas City, MO). 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 literary & art magazine, Dead Peasant, where she occasionally serves as a co-editor. 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
Work
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
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
Editorial Work
Editor
Number One Magazine | 2023 - 2024
Editor & Co-founder
Dead Peasant Magazine | 2020 - Present
Productions Intern
Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast | 2021 – 2022
Prose Staff
New Letters Magazine | 2021 – 2022
Prose Intern & Photographer
Laurel Review | 2018 - 2019
Ad Designer
NW Missourian | 2018 - 2019
Editor
Medium Weight Forks | 2018 - 2019