Kimberly, a Delaware native and nature girl at heart, is a published amateur photographer and writer. She is self-taught and spends her free time nurturing her passion for wildlife and nature through photography, writing, and creating her own natural body care.
I am LaShonda C. Henderson, a writer, poet, painter, and ethical technologist whose creative and technological endeavors explore the social implications of love on both micro and macro levels. Through poetry, novels, workshop journals, and daily reflections shared on social media, I delve into how love shapes our society and individual experiences.
Erin Roberts is a speculative fiction writer who tells stories across formats – her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, The Dark, THEN AGAIN: Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Thirty Writers, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4, and The Best Dark Fantasy and Horror of the Year 2018; her interactive fiction has been published in Sub-Q Magazine and is forthcoming from Choice of Games; and her non-fiction essays and reviews have appeared on Tor.com and in Cascadia Subduction Zone, People of Colo(u
Rachael Uwada Clifford is a writer, poet, and Cave Canem Fellow, at work on her first collection of short stories and her first poetry collection.
Ivy Goodman is the author of two collections of short stories, Heart Failure (University of Iowa
Press) and A Chapter from Her Upbringing (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Her fiction
has appeared in anthologies and many literary magazines, and she is at work on a third
collection.
A.A. Weiss is the author of the Luke Lundy thriller series (The Agency Books) and the travel memoir Lenin's Asylum (Everytime Press). His essays and short stories have appeared in various journals and twice received special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. A recipient of grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council, he lives with his family in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Krista Schlyer is an artist living Mount Rainier, Maryland. Her
focus is long-term projects exploring landscape level ecological and human social relationships. Her subjects have included the US-Mexico borderlands, the Anacostia River watershed, the longleaf pine ecosystem and the Caribbean Sea. Schlyer’s work has been published by the BBC, Orion, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, Newsweek and others. She is the author of
three books including Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the
Bobby Blazek is a multi-media artist working and currently residing in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His work focuses on macabre storytelling through paintings, comics, and illustrations. Blazek combines biological, technological, and religious imagery while emphasizing color contrast, movement, repetition, and texture in order to convey narratives pertaining to marginalized bodies in the current state of the world. Currently he is at MICA majoring in General Fine Arts, minoring in Illustration and Sequential Art.
Dereck Stafford Mangus is a Baltimore-based artist and writer. He currently works at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he is regularly inspired by the permanent collections and special exhibitions. His review, “Jack Whitten, ‘Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017,’” was selected as the winner of the Frieze Writer’s Prize in 2018. Mangus finds inspiration in the built environment, which informs his artwork and writing.