Stanley Patrick Stocker, a Philadelphia native, is the son of a meat cutter and a meat wrapper. A
graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Stocker is a lawyer in Washington, DC. His
writing has appeared in the New York Times and Shooting Star Review. He lives in the Maryland suburbs
with his wife and son.
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
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.
Melanie S. Hatter is the author of two novels and one short story collection. Selected by
Edwidge Danticat, Malawi’s Sisters won the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and is
published by Four Way Books, 2019. The Color of My Soul won the 2011 Washington Writers’
Publishing House Fiction Prize, and Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss was
released in 2014. Her short stories have appeared in The Whistling Fire, Defying Gravity,
TimBookTu and Diverse Voices Quarterly. She was a runner-up winner in the Fiction category
Krista Schlyer is an artist living Mount Rainier, Maryland. Her
focus is long-term projects exploring landscape level ecological and human social relationships. Her subjects have included the US-Mexico borderlands, the Anacostia River watershed, the longleaf pine ecosystem and the Caribbean Sea. Schlyer’s work has been published by the BBC, Orion, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, Newsweek and others. She is the author of
three books including Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the
Nanna Ingvarsson is member of SAG-AFTRA, and an Equity Membership Candidate (EMC).
She has worked in Washington, DC-area theater for more than 30 years, appearing in more than
50 productions.
Nanna was nominated for a 2016 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress – Helen
Production for her work as Eileen in the Scena Theatre production of The Cripple of Innishmaan.
In 2015, she was nominated for two Helen Hayes Awards in the category of Outstanding Lead
Actress – Helen Production for her work in both The Amish Project at Factory 449, and
Erika Rose is a Helen Hayes Award winning actress, nominated three times for Best Actress.
She is a proud native of Prince George's County. She attended Lewisdale Elementary School,
Nicholas Orem Middle School and High Point High School before continuing her education at
The University of Maryland, College Park where she studied Theater and Performance.
Erika has worked as an actress for 18 years in the DMV. You may have seen her at Round House
Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Imagination Stage, The African Continuum
I was born and raised in Maryland, and in 2016 I graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art earning a BFA in animation. Though I came in with a background in 3D animation and modeling, I ended my program focused on cut paper stop motion. I fell in love with both working with my hands and the meticulous act of making the puppets and moving them bit by bit. This experience has come to influence my work through to today. I take my fascination with the feel and pattern of paper and use it to create paper-craft illustrations and the occasional animation.
Kristina King (b. 1991) is a Washington, D.C.-based interdisciplinary artist working in
handmade paper and installation. Kristina received a BFA in 2014 from Denison University.
King’s work has been reviewed in BmoreArt and The Washington Post. King was honored with a
Studio Workshop Residency at Women’s Studio Workshop in 2019. King has exhibited at
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Allegany Arts Council, Willow Street Gallery, Via Umbria
Galleria, Takoma Park Community Center, among others. Her studio is located at DC Art
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,