Meet the Editors

Jabberwocky Staff.

Jabberwocky is organized each year into four teams: Fiction, Nonfiction and Literary Criticism, Poetry, and Media. Each team has a Head and Assistant Head editor as well as several general editors. Our Admin Team provides centralized decision-making and helps oversee the forward-facing aspects of the journal. For more information on each of the teams and how to apply, check out our Apply to join our staff section on the homepage.

Admin Team

Grace Holland.
Grace Holland

Grace, one of the Co-Editors-in-Chief for the 2025 edition, is a junior studying English with a concentration in creative writing. Grace loves to drink coffee, talk about her three dogs (Mina, Stella, and Maisie), and listen to her 100 Spotify playlists. She joined the Jabberwocky staff as a fiction editor during her freshman year and joined the admin team as the Associate Editor for the 2024 edition.

Mary El Vaughan
Mary Elizabeth Vaughan

Mary El, one of the Co-Editors-in-Chief for the 2025 edition, is a junior double major in Linguistics and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies. She loves owls, opera, and hockey and will happily talk your ear off about any of them – just say the word! She also enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy and knitting shawls and socks. Mary El joined the Jabberwocky staff as a Nonfiction and Literary Criticism Editor for the 2023 edition and joined the Admin Team as the Managing Editor for the 2024 edition.

River Riddle
River Riddle

River, the Associate Editor for the 2025 edition, is a senior majoring in Comparative Literature with a related discipline in History. They love coffee, reading, going on nature walks, and talking about their research interests in postcolonial literature! River joined the Jabberwocky staff in their freshman year and has been the Head Editor for the Nonfiction and Literary Criticism team for the past two years before joining the admin team as Associate Editor for this year’s edition.