Kurt Milberger — Editorial Director 8/1/25 Kurt Milberger — Editorial Director 8/1/25

Letter from the Editorial Director

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of the artificial bullshit glutting our internet. I’m sick of scrolling past stilted videos of eerily fluid, cartoonish people in nauseating yellow lighting.

Veronica Pérez 8/1/25 Veronica Pérez 8/1/25

Letter from the Managing Editor

As I approach the culmination of my degree, I have gone through various iterations of a capstone idea. Perhaps a collection of short stories, a novel, a novel written through short stories.

Kurt Milberger — Editorial Director 1/1/24 Kurt Milberger — Editorial Director 1/1/24

Letter from the Editor

When Andy Plattner asked me to join the editorial team of The Headlight Review in the spring of last year, I brought along my history of editing literary magazines in the Midwest. Although I was prepared to find the South different from the Rust Belt, it didn’t occur to me that even the literary magazines here might be just a little bit different.

Brittany Files — Managing Editor 7/1/23 Brittany Files — Managing Editor 7/1/23

Letter from the Editor

Our inaugural issue, “The Journey,” sought to illuminate our path as we embarked on a new chapter of The Headlight Review.

Sam Casto and Tyra Douyon — Co-Editorial Directors 1/1/23 Sam Casto and Tyra Douyon — Co-Editorial Directors 1/1/23

Editor’s Note

By continuing to create and share with each other, we have combined our light to forge a beacon that leads us back to one another, as well as back to the tools that we may have at one point thought we didn’t have the strength to use

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