CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Charlotte Ungar recently 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 2024–2025 Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize and she represented the university on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. She also has interned for World Poetry Books, Trio House Press, and Autumn House Press, and she currently reads for Trio House Press. Her most recent work appears or is forthcoming in the Sugar House Review, Barnstorm, The Penn Review, and elsewhere.

CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Maisie Bilston is a Senior at Yale University, where she studies English with a Creative Writing concentration. She has interned at American Short Fiction, Zyzzyva, and Curtis Brown Ltd. and serves as a reader for The Yale Review; she is also the Managing Literary Editor at the Yale Literary Magazine. Her poetry has won several prizes, most recently the Yale University Academy of American Poets prize and the Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for undergraduate poetry, and she was the university representative on the 2025 Connecticut Poetry Circuit. 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 Senior at Yale who loves poetry, especially the weird stuff. Lucy’s writing has been recognized in several places, winning the Richard Schoenberg Prize for writing about poetry and the Francis M. Bergen award for poetic composition. In 2025, Lucy was named a Yale College Poet by the Beinecke Collection of American Literature at Yale. It is Lucy’s belief that a guilty pleasure is only made more pleasurable by the idea that one is not supposed to like it.

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 is currently working in the audiobook publishing industry, while also serving as a Short Story Editor at October Hill Magazine, and as a Poetry Reader with Palette Poetry. 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 & SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Noa Climor is a Junior 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.

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Liam Smith is a UConn Senior studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing. He serves as Poetry Editor and Design and Copyediting co-lead for the Long River Review. His work was awarded the 2025-2026 Collins Literary Prize in Poetry.