Carson Wu's fiction has appeared in the North American Review, Onthebus, Confrontation, and
other literary journals. Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, but has lived in the Maryland area
the last fifteen years. He works at the U.S. Department of State.
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
Hoke S. Glover III was born in the Bronx, NY in 1970. His parents moved to Lanham, MD.
Shortly thereafter. He attended private schools in Prince George’s County and graduated from
DeMatha Catholic High School in 1988.
He then attended the New School for Social Research in New York and graduated undergrad
from Bowie State University. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Maryland in 1997
where he studied with Stanley Plumly, Michael Collier, and Merle Collins.
In 1992 he founded Karibu Books as a vending operation with locations at Bowie State
Born in Busan, South Korea, Patti Kim immigrated to the United States on Christmas, 1974.
Convinced at the age of five that she was a writer, she scribbled gibberish all over the pages of
her mother’s Korean-English dictionary and got in big trouble for it. But that didn’t stop her from
writing. She is the author of A Cab Called Reliable, Here I Am, and I’m Ok, to which she is
currently writing a companion novel called It's Girls Like You, Mickey to be published by
Atheneum summer of 2020. Kim earned her BA in English Literature and MFA in Creative
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.
Paula Whyman is the author of the linked story collection YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press), which won the 2017 Towson Prize for Literature. A music theater piece based on a story from the book is in development with composer Scott Wheeler. Paula’s work has also appeared in Ploughshares, VQR, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Hudson Review, andThe Washington Post, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. Paula is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and Vice President of the MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee.
Paula Chase grew up on a healthy diet of Judy Blume, Mildred Taylor and Francine Pascale. Admiring
authors of such differing styles resulted in a forever love of children’s fiction of every variety. In 2006,
she put finger to keyboard and created her own world of characters. The result was her debut YA novel,
So Not the Drama, the first in a five-book series about a multi-cultural group of friends navigating the
highs and lows of high school.
Growing up, Paula never thought about the lack of characters of color in popular fiction. However, when
A.A. Weiss is the author of the Luke Lundy thriller series (The Agency Books) and the travel memoir Lenin's Asylum (Everytime Press). His essays and short stories have appeared in various journals and twice received special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. A recipient of grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council, he lives with his family in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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.
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