Alexa Drake is a novelist and the Director of of Rosecliff’s Beta Reader Program, where she helps writers access the kind of thoughtful, emotionally intelligent feedback that can transform a draft.
She brings her own lived experience with hearing loss to the page, writing characters who move through the world with resilience, complexity, and heart.

Outside of Rosecliff, she balances a full-time career with raising two children under the age of two — proof that she knows how to keep a lot of plates spinning and still carve out space for creativity. Her work is grounded in empathy, craft, and an insistence that every writer deserves to feel seen, supported, and taken seriously.

Sophie Riley is a graduate of Columbia University’s Publishing Course at Oxford. She’s an Illinois native, but is often traveling the globe.
With a degree in creative writing and art & design, she loves writing fiction for young readers and working with other creatives. Alongside assisting at Rosecliff Literary, she is a freelance illustrator, elementary educator, and co-founder of NovelBound, a writing community platform.
She spends her (limited) free time exploring outside, visiting coffee shops, playing video games, and starting too many projects that she’ll never finish.

Taylor Battey is an avid reader of all genres of literature and a dedicated writer living in Nashville, Tennessee. When not assisting at Rosecliff Literary, she works both as an Electron Microscopy Research Assistant and a Toxicology Certifying Scientist.
She is the Content Assistant as well as a founding member of the NovelBound Community, which supports and connects writers through its resources and network. Outside of work and writing, she can be found flip-flopping between reading five different books, playing video games with her friends, or taking long walks with her fiancé and their dog, Maple.