CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Charlotte Ungar was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in New York. She is a Senior at the University of Connecticut, where she studies English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She has interned for World Poetry Books, Trio House Press, and Autumn House Press, and she currently reads for Trio House Press. She has also served as 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. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Long River Review, the Jewish Literary Journal, 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.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Originally from Weston, Connecticut, Annabel Richards is an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts, where she is pursuing a major in English and a minor in Political Science. She currently serves as an editor and marketing specialist for The Scribe, the UMass Humanities and Fine Arts literary magazine where one of her short stories was published. Additionally, she works as an invasive species and public health educator in Vermont and is passionate about environmental and natural resource conservation.

ASSOCIATE 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.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Liam Smith is a queer poet, freelance journalist, and musician. His debut chapbook, Pretty Boy, will be released in the fall of 2025. Liam also serves as the Poetry Editor and Design Lead for the Long River Review. He is currently completing an English degree with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut. 

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.