Sarahia Benn is a premier multi-instrumentalist, high energy performer, music educator, media consultant, concert promoter, producer, songwriter, and arranger. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where she either studied, graduated, or worked with some of the biggest names in music, including Lalah Hathaway, Quincy Jones III, Delfeayo Marsalis, David Dyson, Paula Cole, Juliana Hatfield, the late-Roy Hargrove, Danilo Perez, and the late-Jeff Ramsey.
Yo Mister
Yo Mister by Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, presented by Theater Alliance’s reading series for new short plays, Hothouse.
This reading took place in October 2019.
This reading took place in October 2019.
Year: 2019
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Ed.D served as the second Poet Laureate of Prince George's County, MD from 2023-2025. She is a cultural curator with over 20 years of applied experience transforming places into arts and educational spaces. She is award-winning performance artist Khadijah Moon, and a multi-genre writer who is a producing playwright and filmmaker. Her plays, songs and poetry has been staged, workshopped and read on dozens of stages, including the John F.
Michael Mountain also known as Mic Mountain is a Visual Graphic Artist, 2D Animator and Hip-Hop Musician & Performer. With 6 music albums published online and a full length Anime Movie which was written, directed, illustrated and animated by himself. Michael has a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Communications with a concentration in Digital Design. His life purpose and passion for waking up every day to create art and music.
Recently accepted into the renowned Tin House Summer Workshop, Stephani E. D. McDow’s writing has been published in Day Eight's Diaspora Cafe: DC, Bourgeon, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Genre: Urban Arts No. 7, and Femme Literati: Mixtape Anthology.
Niamh Corcoran, a Maryland-based writer and artist, lives in a small town on the water, where the main roads wind up at sunset. Born to a family of English teachers, she graduated from Yale University (BA English) and American University (MFA Creative Writing). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Poetry, her writing appears widely in journals, including The Los Angeles Review, Puerto del Sol, River Styx, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Scribe Dog Studio is her art practice, her heart-work.
Baltimore native Lenett Partlow-Myrick aka Mama Nef is a visual artist, poet-writer, educator, spirARTtual activist, grandmother, and principal artist for Partlow Art. She makes artifacts of her living experiences as an African-descendant female residing in the United States. Her visual art has been featured at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, in group shows at Hamilton Gallery, the Dos-à-Dos book art exhibit, and most recently on the cover of Passager. Her writings appear in several anthologies, including A Community of . . .