Staff

Charlotte Ungar

Charlotte Ungar is a senior at the University of Connecticut, where she studies English with a concentration in creative writing. She has served as the Poetry Editor and Translations Editor for the Long River Review and is currently interning for Autumn House Press. Her writing has received awards from the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program, the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, and has been nominated for Best New Poets. Her most recent work appears in the Jewish Literary Journal.

Editor-in-Chief

Maisie Bilston

Maisie Bilston is a Senior at Yale University, where she studies English with a Creative Writing concentration. She has interned at American Short Fiction 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.

Managing Editor

Ava Reilly

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.

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Annabel Richards

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. Following graduation, she intends to pursue a degree in environmental law.

Liam Smith

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.