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Ann Bracken has authored three poetry collections, a memoir, serves as a contributing editor for Little Patuxent Review, and co-facilitates the Wilde Readings Poetry Series. Her poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and her poetry has garnered two Pushcart Nominations. Ann’s advocacy work centers around paradigm change through the power of the arts in the areas of emotional wellness, education, and mass incarceration. 

• Read more about Shana Oshiro

Shana Oshiro, is an alumna of Morgan State University with a BFA in Vocal Performance and a former Miss Maryland. She has appeared with Opera Philadelphia in productions of Porgy and Bess and Margaret Garner and made several appearances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as a featured ensemble member. She performs with multiple music organizations in the DC Metropolitan area- -including Handel Choir of Baltimore, CAAPA Chorale, and IN Series Opera.

• Read more about James Gossard

James Gossard is an award winning Maryland film producer & director, poet, and playwright. He is also a screenwriter and fiction writer. His current project, DIVINE INSTINCT, a feature-length documentary about sculptor Gary Spinosa, was a 2023 Finalist in the Washington DC Independent Film Festival where it screened its World Premiere on March 1, 2023. Gossard worked as a freelance journalist in Montana, following the Border Grizzly Project and writing for wildlife journals. StoryPros named his screenplay, WHITE DUST, in its Top Ten Action-Thrillers.