Venture Magazine

EDITORIAL MASTHEAD

2024-2025

Editor-in-Chief

  • Maura Corman (she/her) is the Editor-in-Chief of Venture. She is a senior English major who works at Rider University Libraries as a Student Back Processor. Previously, she was on the editorial board and published in her high school’s literary magazine, Insights. She has been spending the past year writing her own poetry about the American suburbs. In her spare time she likes to listen to music and read.

Assistant Editor-in-Chief

  • Aiya Rabah is a sophomore English and Criminal Justice major. In addition to being on the events and design teams, she is the assistant Editor-in-Chief of Venture. She enjoys reading everything from literary fiction to comic books, writing short stories, and always trying new hobbies.

Web Editor

  • Eli Norton (they/them) is a junior English major with a minor in Music Production. They are the Web Editor of Venture magazine and a member of the magazine design team. Even when they aren’t managing the Venture website, they are never truly offline and are usually playing video games or doing some writing of their own.

Academic Advisor

  • Prof. Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and performer. He is the author of three poetry collections: Hivestruck (Penguin Random House, 2024), Tertulia (Penguin Random House, 2020), and Stereo.Island.Mosaic. (Ahsahta, 2016), which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Professor Toro is also a recipient of the Letras Boricua fellowship, a partnership with the Flamboyan Foundation funded in part by the Carnegie Mellon Foundation. His work has been published in dozens of magazines and journals and has been anthologized in Saul Williams’ CHORUS, Puerto Rico En Mi Corazon, Best American Experimental Writing 2015, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT, and Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology.

Fiction Editors

  • Skye Chernobilsky (they/them) is a fiction editor and PR team member of Venture. They are a double major in Elementary Education and English Literature with a minor in Middle School English. They are on the executive board of several clubs including the Rider University Pep Band and Hillel. In their spare time, Skye enjoys photography, cooking, and listening to music. 
  • Carole Cobos (she/her) is a member of the Fiction editorial team. She is an English and Sociology major with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She’s been published by Venture and is really proud to be part of the magazine now! 
  • Brielle Engelhardt (she/her) is the treasurer of Venture and the national honors society, Alpha Lambda Delta. She is an English major with a minor in Journalism. Previously, she published stories and created cover art for her high school’s literary magazine, Wasabi. In her free time, she enjoys crafting, reading, hanging out with friends, and drinking coffee.
  • Talia Hincks is a senior at Rider University, where she studies English, Professional Writing & Publishing, and Management & Leadership. She is president of the Aikido Club; a member of the National English honor’s society, Sigma Tau Delta; and head fiction-editor of Venture, Rider’s University’s literary magazine. Talia is passionate about writing and literature, and she is interning with the Norton College Sales department this spring.

Nonfiction Editors

  • Sasha-Andrea Flowers (she/her) is an editor for the nonfiction portion of Venture. She is a Film and Television major with a minor in English. She is an independent student at Rider University, who loves writing and reading. Currently in two internships for editorial writing and production, she enjoys her position for Venture.
  • Anthony “Tony” Cammarano (He/Him) is a nonfiction editor at Venture. He’s an English Major and works as a tutor at the Writing Studio here at Rider. He loves listening to music, playing video games, and watching pro wrestling.
  • Zie Mueller (they/them) is a junior secondary education and English writing major. They are on the marketing and nonfiction editing teams at Venture. Zie’s hobbies include reading, running, and cooking, and spending time with their miniature poodle, Rosie. 
  • Lilly Trace (any pronouns) is the Head Editor of the Nonfiction Team at Venture Literary Magazine. Lilly is an English major with a minor in French, and is currently a junior at Rider University. They also enjoy egregiously long books, as is demonstrated by them incessantly talking about David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Poetry Editors

  • Brooke Foster (she/her) is the head poetry editor at Venture. She is currently an English major and Social Media Strategies minor working as an Embedded Tutor for Rider’s first-year composition courses. Outside of writing, you can find Brooke trying to cross books off of her endless to-be-read (TBR) list or discovering her latest comfort show on Netflix.
  • Bridget Gum-Egan (she/her) is working on both the poetry and marketing teams of Venture. She is an English major and works at the information desk here at Rider. She is very involved on campus in many clubs and is graduating this spring! She has a service dog named Sheriff, as well as 4 other dogs at home and she and her family’s foster dogs.
  • Maggie Robinson (she/her) is a poetry editor at Venture. She is an English major with a concentration in writing. Her biggest goal is to be published in Taco Bell Quarterly. She loves perfume collecting, cooking, and anime.
  • Ashley Semmel (she/her) is a part of both the Poetry Editorial Team and Marketing Team. She is a Secondary Ed and English-Writing major with a minor in Special Ed. This is her first year with Venture and in a literary magazine. She enjoys writing poetry, photography, listening to music, and binging too much TV!
  • Jake Tiger (he/him) is a poetry editor for Venture. He is a journalism major, executive editor of The Rider News and a student writing consultant at the Academic Success Center. This is his first year as an editor for Venture. He loves the Philadelphia Eagles, running, and his dog, Franklin.