Meet Our Editors:

Bret McCabe (Creative Nonfiction)

Bret McCabe has been an arts and culture reporter, critic, and a freelance features writer and editor over the past 20 years. His work has appeared in the Baltimore City Paper, Dallas Observer, BmoreArt, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, among other magazines, newspapers, and websites. He was a 2010 finalist for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism Arts & Culture Fellowship and a 2010 fellow at the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera at Columbia University. He is the senior humanities writer at the Johns Hopkins Magazine.

DuEwa Frazier (Experimental & Afrofuturism)

 is a poet, essayist, scholar, digital creator, TEDx and keynote speaker, and Assistant Professor of English. Frazier’s research, creative nonfiction, and digital writings focus on hip-hop and popular culture, culturally responsive pedagogy, education, Black women, and Black literature. She is the editor of, Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs (2024) and the forthcoming volume Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (2024). Her poetry has been featured in Arlington Literary Journal, Split this Rock, Black Renaissance Noire, Tidal Basin Review, Poetry in Performance, and others. She is the author of several published volumes of poetry and children’s stories. She has been a writing fellow at the Hurston/Wright Foundation and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She holds advanced degrees in Creative Writing, Curriculum and Teaching, and Higher Education Leadership. Frazier earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School.

Rosalia Scalia (Fiction)

Rosalia Scalia is the author of the story collection, Stumbling Toward Grace (Unsolicited Press). Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Oklahoma Review, North Atlantic Review, Notre Dame Review, The Portland Review, and Quercus Review, among many others. She holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and is a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist’s Award recipient. She won the Editor’s Select award from Willow Review and her short story in Pebble Lake was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Baltimore City with her family.

Lisa Snowden (Journalism)

Lisa Snowden is the Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Beat, a digital and print-based news product based in Baltimore City. At Baltimore Beat, Lisa uses decades of experience both as a reporter and in leadership to help re-imagine a new approach to news and storytelling. Previously, she was an editor at Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Sun, and The Real News Network. Her work has appeared in Essence, Washington Post, Baltimore Magazine, and many other publications.

Many thanks to our generous supporters who make this event possible:

Maryland State Arts Council | Maryland Humanities | Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts | Creative Baltimore Fund | National Endowment for the Arts | Amazon Literary Partnership | Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
William G. Baker Memorial Fund | T. Rowe Price Foundation | Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation | Motor House | Insight 180