Aubrey Garwood is a photographer based in Baltimore. She has worked at Discovery, Inc., and is currently working as a senior coordinator of photography production at National Geographic. Her art is about discovering new places, whether physically through nature or via the landscape of her mind. It has been shown in galleries in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, and was featured as a Pop-Up exhibit on Maryland Public Television’s Artworks (episode 423). Her most recent show she participated in was Camera USA 2019 in Naples, Florida.
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I'm a Frederick county resident. I've have lived in Baltimore and am a native New Yorker.
I was an art major at Hunter College in New York, NY, did graduate work in Painting at C.W. Post Long Island University and took many courses at Maryland Institute College of Art. I've been making art most of my life in media which include collage, oil painting, monotypes and mixed media. I'm currently painting in acrylics. My work has been exhibited in New York, Baltimore and Frederick.
Margot Bevington is a teacher and performer based in Middletown, MD. Her music for children is award winning, and she performs in the DMV area as Ms. Margot. She has two albums for children, as well as an innovative coloring book that parents and children can color together. She is a member of ASCAP, NARAS, and the Children’s Music Network, and produces her albums and books under her independent label, In and Out of the Clouds. She has two books of poetry, and has a series of arrangements for beginner piano which she calls Piano Popsicles. Her first album is available as sheet music as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.