Past Editors
The River Editors:
Fall 2025:
Katie Lipoma is a junior at UMF studying creative writing and psychology with a minor in business communications. She enjoys crafting works of fiction, poetry, and screenwriting which often explore themes of childhood and familial relationships. Searching for meaning and poetry in everyday life, her writing inspiration stems from nature, emotions, creative projects, photographs, and the stories she finds by quietly narrating the world around her. Katie is a dedicated reader of fiction and mystery, and is on a journey to becoming more well-read across genres. She’s often drawn to writing that’s poetic, peculiar, and metaphor-filled. Outside of reading and writing, she enjoys sewing, photography, flea markets, the outdoors, and classic sitcoms. She recently picked up a 1960s typewriter at a flea market and enjoys bringing her words to life with it!
Kylee Walton is a fiction writer and poet who is currently studying Creative Writing and English at the University of Maine at Farmington. Her fiction work tends to focus on nameless characters in absurd and Kafkaesque situations, while her poetry aims to use defamiliarization and abstraction to force the reader into a new, metaphorical space they have not been to before. When Kylee’s not reading magical realism or sewing up a pair of jeans, she’s attempting to master the art of the short story.
Brock C. Littlefield is an Air Force veteran and non-traditional student studying creative writing in his senior year at the University of Maine at Farmington. His goal and life long dream of creating shows that will make it on networks like Adult Swim may still be in the works, but his ambition and fortitude might just make his dream a reality.
Spring 2025:
Visio Roughton is a double major in creative writing and English who writes predominantly fantasy/fiction stories. Most days are spent daydreaming about magical creatures, fantasy worlds, and about what would happen if a vampire tried to eat garlic bread.
Ev Dearborn is a Creative Writing and English double-major with a minor in Editing & Publishing. They enjoy writing horror fiction and essays, and love exploring all forms of werewolf media.
Fall 2024:
Musette White is a Junior at UMF with a double major in Creative Writing and English and a hopeful minor in Early Childhood Special Education. Musette is currently trying to figure out their gender identity and are leaning towards they/she, though they are fine with any pronouns. They are a fiction writer who loves reading and writing LGBTQ+ stories, especially if they are romance and fantasy. While romance and fantasy are their go-to genres, they also have a knack for horror. They like to incorporate mental health into their stories and are really drawn to and fascinated by relationship dynamics of all kinds. They aspire to be an author and provide others the opportunity to escape their lives and explore other places, along with telling and spreading trans and queer stories.
Faerin Estrada is a senior with a double major in Creative Writing and English. They use they/he pronouns, and identify as nonbinary transmasc. They mostly write fantasy, although they enjoy all forms of writing including screenwriting, poetry, and storytelling. They plan to become an author in the future, and hope to write stories that are tragic and magical.
Spring 2024:
Anna Heneise is a Creative Writing major at the University of Maine, Farmington. She writes primarily science fiction and fantasy, and enjoys the community and process of workshopping new work with friends and classmates. She’s been on many adventures, and hopes to inspire a sense of adventure in her readers.
Sean Maher is one of two editors for The River in the Spring of 2023. He is a senior with a double Creative Writing and Interactive Media major. He writes weird fiction, poems and makes digital monstrosities in his free time. He also loves movies.
Fall 2023:
Gwen Lombard
Wilson Kraus
Sandy River Review Editors:
2023-2024:
Katherine Berube is a Creative Writing and English double major as well as an Editing & Publishing and Video Games Studies double minor. She specializes in speculative fiction and is a lover of all things fantasy. Katherine takes her inspiration from the natural world and is fascinated by monsters both human and non-human. She hopes to forever explore the intricacies and complexities of whether or not monsters are born or made within her longform fiction.
Dex LaFrance is a Creative Writing and English double major, and an Editing & Publishing minor at UMF. He specializes in creative nonfiction and poetry, but dabbles in sci-fi/fantasy as well, focusing on cyberpunk dystopias. He wants to one day see a world where media reflects the lived realities of trans and queer youths and adults, and writes obsessively about the relationship dynamics between people of all sorts.