• 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.

• Read more about Amy Boone-McCreesh

Amy Boone-McCreesh is a Baltimore-based artist. Amy completed a two-year fellowship for emerging artists with Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington D.C. (2014), where she exhibited and was included in Scope, Miami and (e)merge DC art fairs (2012/13). Her work has also been included in exhibitions across the country including Mixed Greens (NY, New York, 2015), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, 2015), Transformer Gallery (Washington DC (2015). Recent collections include the Department of State, U.S. Consulate in Monterrey,

• Read more about Stephanie Barber

Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Her film and video work has been screened at MoMA, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The National Gallery of Art, DC; The Paris Cinematheque; The Tate Modern, London among other festivals, galleries and museums. Her videos are distributed by The Video Data Bank, Chicago http://www.vdb.org/artists/stephanie-barber.

• Read more about Kevin Blackistone

Kevin Blackistone (Baltimore, MD) is an interdisciplinary and new media artist exploring the uses of technology in the context of information collection, research data, and collective/personal memory. His work primarily consists of interactive and immersive video content. He has shown locally at Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD, 2017), Artscape (Baltimore, MD, 2017), The Davis Planetarium (Baltimore, MD, 2017), The Engineers Club for the Future History Festival (Baltimore, MD, 2016) and Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD, 2007,09-13,17), He has also shown

• Read more about Tom Boram

Tom Boram is a multimedia artist and musician from Baltimore, MD. His work contains but is not limited to improvised electronic sound, audio-visual performance art, narrative and experimental film/video, technical systems and sound design. His creative work is the dark center of a Venn diagram of his personal concerns: religious experience, lucid dreaming, synesthesia, human history, technology, synesthesia, mental illness, death and magic. He has performed and screened his works in venues, festivals and galleries throughout the USA,

• Read more about Michaela Jacobs

21 years old | Self taught artist who creates artwork from emotion & through my own perspective . Still learning and exploring my craft !