About

2026–27 Editorial Staff

Editors-in-Chief

Katherine Bernstein ‘27
Rylan Liu ’27

Managing Editors

Anna Gilsdorf ’27

Assistant Managing Editor
Stacy Pereira ’29

Prose

Prose Head:
David Means
Catherine McCarthy ’27
Kayla Murati ’29

Prose Editors:
Harley Dalton ‘26
Lucy Hultquist ’26
Emma Youngblood ’26

Prose Readers:
Maeve McGrath ’27
Mae Nettle ’27
Anna Little ’27
Maria Paz Posada ’27
Beatrice Weisfeld ’28
Jayla Anderson ’28
Abbie Zhang ’29
Pearl Hagen ’29
Violet Cubbin ’29
Fiona Brown ’29
Sylvia Sargent ’29
Ameyaa Desai ’29

Arts

Arts Head:
Mary-Kay Lombino
Guneet Hanjra ’28

Arts Editors:
Andrew Chu ’27
Annabel Wang ’29
Nishlay Polanco Cruz ’29
Bellie Floro ’28
Matilda Clow ’29
Eliot Sanborn ’29
Amélie Rey-Bear ’29
Alexandra Czarniak ’29
Adrian Caccamise ’30
Connor Woertink ’30

Poetry

Poetry Head:
Jean Kane
Margeaux Heenan ’27

Poetry Editors:
Hadley Snell ’28
James Faulkner ’28
Helen Hutchison ’29
Evangeline Beller ’29

Poetry Readers:
Elyssa Ulip ’27
Madeleine Stone ’29
Caecilia Schott ’29
Jing Seto ’29
Lizzie Berry ’29
Kathryn Harry ’29
Jingxuan Liu ’30
Alexa Chua ’30
Evan Kelley ’30
Rebeca Jemmott ’30
Eloise Geary ’30

Design

Zach Bokhour
A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield

Media Team

Social Media Coordinator
Mae Gesser ’30

Website Director
Katherine Bernstein ’27

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

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.