Contributor Bios – May 2025
Teresa Duggan loves taking unexpected photos on the streets of Baltimore City or elsewhere, and making collages or other random creative endeavors. So far she has participated in nine (9!) pairings of The Light Ekphrastic, which is her favorite art game ever. She feels a little weird writing about herself in the third person, but hopes you’ll visit these links if interested: Baker Artist Portfolio, Instagram, Flickr, or this Baltimore Banner article.
Kate Polak is an artist, writer, and teacher. Her work has recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Miracle Monocle, McSweeney’s, Drunk Monkeys, Moria, and Inverted Syntax, who nominated her for “Best of the Net.” Her previous books, Ethics in the Gutter and Science Fiction and the Historical Novel, are scholarship dealing with the intersections between atrocity, visual culture, and historical fiction. She lives in south Florida with her familiars and aspires to a swamp hermitage.
nat raum (they/them, b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA from the University of Baltimore and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. nat is also the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press (fifthwheelpress.com) and the author of fruits of the valley, random access memory, this book will not save you, and many other collections, chapbooks, and photography publications. Their writing is published or forthcoming with Gone Lawn, beestung, Split Lip Magazine, BRUISER, and others. Find them online at natraum.com.
Michelle Spiziri is an intuitive artist who works in a variety of different mediums mostly focused on painting and ceramic sculpture. She creates art that flirts with the lively tension of movement and rest. Stylistically she works in abstraction/abstract-ed and dark whimsy. She wants the viewer to be drawn in through a curious wonderment for meaningful connection. Michelle’s work playfully morphs from one story vignette to the next where there is always something new to be discovered. Michelle graduated with a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Later she received her teaching certificate from Towson University. Find her online at michellespiziri.com.
