• Read more about Rachael Uwada Clifford

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.

• Read more about Karen Warshal

Karen Warshal is a classical artist living and working in Baltimore City. Her primary interests are the figure and portrait, and her most recent paintings depict people in interior spaces, evoking narratives that are sometimes easy to read and other times ambiguous or enigmatic. She derives inspiration from the Old Masters, but also from the models themselves. She always works from life and claims that one of the great things about painting people is the dynamic that exists between the artist and her model. Karen Warshal received her B.A. from the University of

• Read more about Giulia Piera Livi

Giulia Piera Livi is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting and installation.  Her immersive rooms employ hyper-cohesive color and abstract forms to work out ideas of multi-functional art objects and curated domesticity.  She has exhibited both nationally and internationally with notable shows at the Delaware Contemporary Museum (Wilmington, DE), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Governor's Island Art Fair (NY), Mono Practice (Baltimore, MD), Guest Spot @ the REINSTITUTE (Baltimore, MD), Untitled Space (New York, NY), VAE Gallery (Raleigh, NC), and Walter Otero Contemporary Art (

• Read more about McKinley Wallace III

McKinley Wallace III is a painter and draftsman whose art depicts strength expounded by the oppressed and an educator dedicated to cultivating people-oriented environments that foster inclusive community building and high-quality learning. Wallace received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). His studio work has obtained both local and national attention, including solo exhibitions at MICA, Jubilee Arts, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and, later this year, Gallery CA and Creative Alliance, as well as group

• Read more about Elizabeth Dickinson

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is a writer and editor based in Baltimore who has written articles, essays, and short fiction for The New Yorker.com, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Southern Review, McSweeney’s, PANK, The Little Patuxent Review, and The Atlantic, among many others. Her writing has been recognized by Best American Essays and nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes. In 2018, she was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. Dickinson’s writing has been supported with fellowships and

• Read more about Lucas Southworth

Lucas Southworth's short stories have recently appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, Willow Springs, and many others. His first collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun, was chosen as winner of AWP’s Grace Paley Prize (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland.

• Read more about Marion Winik

Marion Winik Longtime All Things Considered commentator MARION WINIK is the author of The Baltimore Book of the Dead, First Comes Love, and eight other books; The Big Book of the Dead is forthcoming in fall of 2019 from Counterpoint. Her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has received the Best Column and Best Humorist awards from Baltimore Magazine, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast, based at WYPR, the Baltimore NPR affiliate.

• Read more about Seth Sawyers

Seth Sawyers is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. His work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Millions, Literary Hub, Ninth Letter, Crab Orchard Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Quarterly West, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere. A graduate of UMBC with an MFA from Old Dominion University, he has been awarded scholarships or fellowships from The Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Writers@Work. He was an Emerging Writer in Residence at Penn State

• Read more about Jung Yun

Jung Yun is a resident of Baltimore and the author of SHELTER, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review, The Indiana Review, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, among others. She has received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the National Humanities Center. Currently, she is an assistant

• Read more about Alicia Puglionesi

Alicia Puglionesi is a Baltimore-based historian and poet whose work explores phenomena of haunting in a disenchanted world. She holds a PhD in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. Her essays and nonfiction have appeared in Atlas Obscura, Motherboard, History.com, The Public Domain Review, The New Inquiry, and The Point. These pieces often seek the deeper meanings inscribed within overlooked sites, strange events, or forgotten life stories, opening up new perspectives on American experience.