CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Charlotte Ungar graduated from the University of Connecticut, where she studied English and creative writing, and served as the Poetry Editor and Translations Editor for the Long River Review. Her poetry was awarded the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize and she represented the university on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. She has also interned for World Poetry Books, Trio House Press, and Autumn House Press, and she currently reads for Epiphany and Sundress Publications. Her most recent work appears in Sugar House Review, Barnstorm, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Massachusetts.

CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Maisie Bilston is a poet based in New York City. Originally from New Haven, she is a graduate of Yale University, where she studied English with a Creative Writing concentration. She has interned at American Short Fiction, Zyzzyva, Curtis Brown Ltd., and served as the Managing Literary Editor at the Yale Literary Magazine. Her poetry has been recognised at Yale and beyond; she is a two-time winner of the university Academy of American Poets prize and was recently awarded the Frederick M. Clapp Fellowship to fund a year of work on her first chapbook. When not writing, she enjoys reading Agatha Christie novels in the bath, taking long walks, and spending time with her dog, a black Labrador called Mephistopheles who has yet to live up to his name.  

POETRY EDITOR

Lucy Ton That is a writer from Massachusetts. Lucy holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from Yale and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Cornell. Lucy’s writing has been recognized by various prizes and periodicals.

FICTION EDITOR

Annabel Richards graduated from the University of Massachusetts, where she studied English and served as an editor and marketing specialist for The Scribe, the UMass Humanities and Fine Arts literary magazine. When not writing, she enjoys getting lost in the woods, drawing, and surrealist literature.

FICTION EDITOR

Ava Reilly graduated from the University of Connecticut, where she studied English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and worked as the Newsletter Editor at the University’s Women’s Center. She has previously served as a Short Story Editor at October Hill Magazine and as a Poetry Reader with Palette Poetry, and now works in the audiobook publishing industry. Aside from literature, she is fond of Sundays, pine trees, hot coffee, and folk music.

ART EDITOR

Makenzie Smith graduated from the University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts as an Honors and University Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, specializing in the Modern and Contemporary periods. While attending university, she interned at the William Benton Museum of Art, where she assisted in research and curatorial work for “Encounters with the Collection: Arts and Human Rights.” She also collaborated with UConn’s Contemporary Art Galleries as co-curator of the pop-up exhibition, “For the Birds, Who Own Nothing”—a nod to Mary Oliver’s poem—which explored the concept of ‘storage’ in all its complexity. Her scholarly interests lie primarily at the intersection between human rights activism and the arts, however in her spare time, she can be found reading Murakami, knitting, and dancing to live music.

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Liam Smith is a student at the University of Connecticut, where he is pursuing a degree in English and Creative Writing and serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Long River Review. Liam's poetry was awarded the 2025-2026 Collins Literary Prize.

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Miranda Argyros is a writer from New York. She is a teacher and learner of English at the University of Connecticut, where she is pursuing doctoral studies.

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR & SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Noa Climor is a Senior at the University of Connecticut where she studies Journalism and English with a Creative Writing Concentration. She currently serves as the Social Media Outreach Coordinator at UConn’s newspaper, The Daily Campus. Additionally, she has interned at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and  is currently a teacher’s assistant for a British Literature course. When not writing or curating social media feeds, she can be found brewing coffee, baking, and watching Merlin.