2025–26 Editorial Staff
Editors-in-Chief
Carina Cole ‘26
Emma Goss ’26
Creative Director
Cody Siegel ’26
Managing Editors
Stacy Merino ‘26
Tess Foley-Cox ‘26
Assistant Managing Editor
Peter Chu ’27
Prose
Prose Head:
David Means
Bridgette Nally ‘26
Prose Editors:
Harley Dalton ‘26
Lucy Hultquist ’26
Emma Youngblood ’26
Prose Readers:
Ellor Haring ’26
Gwen Hilson ’26
Olivia Selby ’26
Claire Paris ’26
Mae Nettle ’27
Jayla Anderson ’28
Kennedy Bealko ’28
Madison McCleskey ’28
Arts
Arts Head:
Mary-Kay Lombino
Katherine Bernstein ’27
Arts Editors:
Wyatt Keleshian ’26
Andrew Chu ’27
Sara Hoskins ’27
Lilianne Liu ’27
Guneet Hanjra ’28
Nishlay Polanco Cruz ’29
Annabel Wang ’29
Poetry
Poetry Head:
Molly McGlennon
Paige Glover ’26
Alli Lowe ’26
Poetry Editors:
Rylan Liu ’27
George Truax ’27
Poetry Readers:
Finntan Mangalam ’27
James Faulkner ’28
Hadley Snell ’28
Lizzie Berry ’29
Kathryn Harry ’29
Helen Hutchinson ’29
Kayla Murati ’29
Archives
Ron Patkus
Archives Head:
Zack Garipoli ’26
Archives Editors:
Noah Duncan ’27
Paige Hahn ’28
Annie McShane ’28
Audrey Wood ’28
Design
Zach Bokhour
A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield
Media Team
Social Media Coordinator
Margeaux Heenan ’27
Website Director
Talia Fiore ’26
Editors-at-Large
Palak Patel ’16
Alyx Raz ’16
Sofia Benitez ’18
Catherine Lucey ’19
Edie Astley ’21
Malka Fleischman ’22
Keira Seyd ’22
Violet Guiness ’23
Anna Molloy ’23
Colin Kirk ’24
Bryn Marling ’24
Eliza Gilbert ’25
Willem Doherty ’25
Founding Editors
Alyx Raz
Palak Patel
Advisory Board
David Means
Mary-Kay Lombino
Molly McGlennon
Wendy Graham
Paul Kane
Printers
J.S. McCarthy Printers
Web Design
Jeff Macaluso
Megg Brown
About
The Vassar Review is an international, multidisciplinary literary arts journal that fosters working relationships between faculty, students, and published artists in order to engage its annual theme with care and reflective insight.
The journal is a revival of the former literary arts magazine published by the faculty and students of Vassar College. VR entered the literary scene in 1927 shaped by a small circle of students, including Elizabeth Bishop. Today, the journal is international in scope and multidisciplinary in nature, across both a print and digital interface. Each academic year culminates with a printed publication and a digital supplement.
Mission
The Vassar Review aims to reconsider the traditions that have defined many publications and structures, those that are not open to all, open to interpretation, or open to change, and unfold them into a collaborative journal that believes the artist’s voice and methods of expression are essential to our daily lives.
Artistically and intimately, we aim to cultivate an international community that holds at its core purposeful expression, visions of things to come, and a revision of what has already been experienced.
Submissions
Submissions are accepted each winter. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. We consider all artistic and literary forms, including painting, photography, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, scripts, and screenplays, but also forms that often prove difficult to present, such as new media art, spoken-word poetry and performances, hypertext fiction, and others. Please visit the submissions page for full submission guidelines.
Acknowledgments
We extend our thanks to our contributors and to the following individuals and bodies for their support and advice in shaping this issue: Aashna Bawa, Joe Bolander, Elizabeth Bradley, Francine Brown, Megg Brown, Jonathan Chenette, Steve Dahnert, Judith Dollenmayer, Catharine Bond Hill, Sami Hopkins, Daniel Lasecki, Amy Laughlin, Alison Mateer, Mary Lombino, Dana Nalbandian, Elizabeth Randolph, Andrew Raz, Daria Robbins, Dean Rogers, Tracey Sciortino, Bryan Swarthout, Lisa Tessler, and Margaret Vetare.
The Dean of Faculty’s Office, the English Majors’ Committee, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the Office of the President, Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Communications, Vassar College English Department, and Vassar College Libraries.
