Ed started producing art when he was sick with rheumatic fever, and bedridden, in middle school. Though he went on to take drawing classes, and got accepted at art school, his inspirations were from internal states of suffering, feelings, and dreams.
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Working on abstract mixed media and illustration to upcycled tins and pattern design, Jo Coyle considers her works and motivations to be led by an internal "art roulette."
Jo graduated from Mount St. Mary's University with a BA in Fine Art, after studying fine art and film in high school at Carver Center for Arts & Technology in Towson, MD. Though her strengths lie mainly in fine art, she is developing new interest and skill in both traditional and digital illustration and design.
A published writer, poet, author, and teacher from Baltimore, MD.
Harriet Katz (b. 1944) grew up in New York, starting piano at 5 and switching to cello at 9. She has played the cello ever since, but didn't make music her career till later in life. An English major (Harvard-Radcliffe '66), she then moved to Los Angeles. In the early '70s she wrote and edited American Civil Liberties Union publications. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her in 1976 as a public (non-lawyer) member of the State Bar of California's governing body.
Christine Higgins is the author of Hallow, a full-length collection of poetry published in Spring, 2020 (Cherry Grove). She was the 2nd place winner in the Poetry Box competition for her chapbook, Hello, Darling in 2019. She is the co-author of In the Margins, A Conversation in Poetry (Cherry Grove, 2017). She has been the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Award for both poetry and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in America, Poetry East, Nagautuck River Review, and Windhover. You can learn more about her on her website: www.christinehigginswriter.com.
Alexandra DeArmon was born and grew up in Frederick, Maryland and graduated from UMD College Park. She currently divides her time between Maryland and Alaska, after having spent more than a decade traveling and living all over the United States. Alexandra has been a contributing columnist to her hometown paper, the Frederick News-Post, since 2013 and is working on a book about her travels.
Madeleine Mysko is the author of two novels, Bringing Vincent Home (Plain View Press) and Stone Harbor Bound (Bridle Path Press,), and a poetry collection, Crucial Blue (Cherry Grove Collections). With three other Maryland poets, she is also the author of In the Margins: A Conversation in Poetry. She is a past recipient of Individual Artist grants in both poetry and fiction from the State of Maryland. Presently she serves as a contributing editor for American Journal of Nursing, and teaches writing part-time at Goucher College. She lives in Towson, Maryland.
Andrea Downs
she/her
Baltimore, Maryland