Eric Baker (he/him) is a Korean American writer from New York City, currently living in the Washington D.C. area, where he studies and teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work explores themes of diasporic identity, loss, and intergenerational trauma. When he’s not making, he’s usually busy wandering around the NGA or catching a […]

Kate d’Arcy is currently a senior at American University studying journalism and French. She’s always been enamored by books and started crafting her own novels when she was ten years old. Whenever she’s not writing, she can be found spending time with friends, cuddling her cat, or exploring D.C.

Christopher Ankney’s first book of poems, Hearsay, won the Jean Feldman Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House and was a finalist for the 2015 Ohioana Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in journals including Gulf Coast, Fourteen Hills, Hayden’s Ferry, Hunger Mountain, Linebreak, and Prairie Schooner. Raised in Defiance, Ohio, at the confluence of […]

Laura Fargas is a Washington, D.C. poet who practiced occupational safety and health law for 27 years. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry and The Paris Review, and her most recent book is An Animal of the Sixth Day (Texas Tech University Press). She currently teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda […]

Miguel Avero is a poet, narrator, essayist, teacher, and researcher whose work has been translated into English and French. He writes literary reviews for the weekly Brecha and has appeared in various national and international anthologies. Since 2011, he has published nearly a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His first poetry collection in English, […]

Born in Baltimore, biologist, poet, and writer Myra Sklarew earned a BS in biology at Tufts University and an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She began her career in the sciences, conducting research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Yale University School of Medicine. Sklarew’s poetry, previously published by Washington Writers’ […]

Varun Gauri was born in India and raised in the American Midwest. He now teaches at Princeton University and lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland. His short fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. His debut novel, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus (WWPH 2024), won […]

Tonee Mae Moll holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She is an assistant professor of English at a Maryland community college and teaches in MFA programs across the state. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won a 2018 […]

Suzanne Feldman received her Masters in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of five novels, including Absalom’s Daughters (Holt, 2016, starred review in Kirkus). In 2022, she was awarded a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize for her short story collection […]