• Read more about Lou Lichti

Originally from central Kansas, Dr. Lou has lived in Maryland most of her adult life. Her love of the mountains and National Parks has been inspirational for her paintings. She began painting in 2011 and has had the great opportunity to have been taught by Doug Moulden and Virginia Grass Simmons. Dr. Lou is a psychologist by profession specializing in PTSD, complex trauma, and dissociation and has helped adolescents and adults heal their broken hearts and spirits in her private practice since 1990. She has an office in historic downtown Frederick, Maryland.

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• Read more about Miranda Prather

Miranda N. Prather writes poetry, short stories, novels, essays and children's books. She has published an ebook titled A Mint-ily Ever After Tale and in 2015, Shoo-Fly View published Blue Blue Sea Finds His Cape, with illustrations by Hayley Mullins. Prather was born in San Antonio, TX, and lived in the great state of Texas and Mississippi, Kansas, Louisiana and Kentucky before going to school in New Mexico. After school, she has lived in Maryland. She has one novel in process currently and another in editing. She is also at work on the next book in the Blue Blue Sea series.

• Read more about NN Dwyer

  N N Dwyer is best known for being a prolific creator of works in multiple mediums. Born in Kentucky, she has lived most of her life in Frederick, Maryland. Drawn to art at an early age she participated in children and youth museum classes, artist in residences and a gifted and talented magnet high school. After graduating from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, she focused on fiber arts for many years. Currently, she is headfirst into high artistic production combining traditional art media, found objects and threadwork. 

• Read more about Tom Bligh

Tom Bligh has published fiction in The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Specs, and Improbable Object. His nonfiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, Black Warrior Review, The Believer, Oxford American, Five Points, and Atlantic City Magazine. He directs the creative writing program at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he is an Associate Professor of English. He teaches literature and creative writing and advises the undergraduate literary magazine, Lighted Corners. He lives in Frederick, Maryland.

• Read more about Victoria Lancelotta

Victoria Lancelotta is the author of Here in the World: 13 Stories, and the novels Far and Coeurs Blesses. Her fiction has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, McSweeneys, and other magazines, both print and electronic. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millenium. She has been a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony.

• Read more about Andrea Dulanto

Andrea Dulanto is a Latinx queer writer.  Degrees include an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University, and a B.A. in Literature and Women’s Studies from Antioch College in Ohio.  They have worked as a writing instructor, freelance writer, and editor. In 2022, they were awarded a Create and Activate Now (C.A.N.) Recover Stipend from the Frederick Arts Council. Publications include Bending Genres, Entropy, FreezeRay Poetry, peculiar, SWWIM Every Day, Berkeley Poetry Review, Court Green, Sinister Wisdom and others.

• Read more about Diego Retana

Diego Retana is a freelance guitarist in the D.C, Maryland, and Northern Virginia area.  Having received an Associate of Arts in music from Frederick Community College, and a Bachelor of Music with a focus on jazz/commercial performance from Towson University, Diego is a capable guitarist in many styles of music including jazz, classical, rock, and other popular styles.

• Read more about Rebecca Jackson

Oil artist of twenty years in Frederick Md. I have a passion for flowers and landscapes. I also have my art design created into fashion with Vida creative studios. I am a curator at the Women's Center Art Gallery at FMH in Frederick Md. 

• Read more about Carol Leadbetter

Education B.A. McGill University, Montreal Canada A.A. Photography, Montgomery College, Maryland Electronic Digital Photography Certificate, Montgomery College   Gallery Representation Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland   Honors and Awards Photographer Magazine Finalist "Colors of India" Second Place, The Art League of Alexandria, All Media Show,2012 Third Place, The Art League of Alexandria, All Media Show, 2011 Honorable Mentions The Art League of Alexandria 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 Honor Society and Awards of Merit in Photography, Montgomery College