The Baltimore Review

In a Room Made Up For Someone Else

Ryan Millbern - In a Room Made Up For Someone Else

Fiction

Ryan Millbern is a copywriter at Richard Harrison Bailey/The Agency, a marketing firm in Indianapolis, Indiana. His stories and essays… Read more »

Reading Comprehension 12: The Crane Wife

Todd Kaneko - Reading Comprehension 12: The Crane Wife

Poetry

W. Todd Kaneko lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His stories and poems can be seen in Puerto Del… Read more »

There Are Rules, Secret Little Rules

Catherine Thomas - There Are Rules, Secret Little Rules

Fiction

Catherine Thomas was born and raised in Wales and now lives in Syracuse, NY. She holds an MA in English… Read more »

The American House

Bram Takefman - The American House

Creative Nonfiction

Bram Takefman is a retired international trade executive who has spent much of his adult life overseas, living in places… Read more »

Vision

Edgar Silex - Vision

Poetry

Edgar Gabriel Silex is the author of two poetry collections from Curbstone. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment… Read more »

The Witness of High Hats

Lockie Hunter - The Witness of High Hats

Creative Nonfiction

Lockie Hunter is from a town in Appalachia where oral storytelling is vital to the community. She holds an MFA… Read more »

Improvement

Emily Roller - Improvement

Contest - 1st Place

Emily Jean Roller graduated from Yale in 2007. She is completing an MA in Writing at Johns Hopkins. Her first… Read more »

Dark Horse

Ned Balbo - Dark Horse

Poetry

Ned Balbo received the 2010 Donald Justice Prize, selected by A.E. Stallings, for The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other… Read more »

Room

Ali Wisch - Room

Visual

When working on my photography there typically isn’t any kind of method to the madness. I always keep a camera… Read more »

Names for the Skies

John Walser - Names for the Skies

Poetry

John Walser, a founding member of the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective, is currently working on a full-length manuscript,… Read more »

Human Resources

Michelle Valois - Human Resources

Sprints

Michelle Valois lives in western Massachusetts with her partner and their three children. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming… Read more »

Morendo

Catherine Parnell - Morendo

Fiction

Catherine Parnell teaches writing and literature at Suffolk University in Boston, as well as the occasional seminar at Grub Street… Read more »

Um Real

Tim Kahl - Um Real

Poetry

Tim Kahl [http://www.timkahl.com] is the author of Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009) and The Century of Travel (Word Tech, 2012).… Read more »

Clutch Steal

Paul Hostovsky - Clutch Steal

Poetry

Paul Hostovsky is the author of 3 books of poetry, Bending the Notes, Dear Truth, and A Little in Love… Read more »

Replacement Parts and the Soul

David Dodd Lee - Replacement Parts and the Soul

Poetry

David Dodd Lee has published six previous full-length books of poems, including Orphan, Indiana (Akron, 2010), The Nervous Filaments (Four… Read more »

storer street

Andrew Abbot - storer street

Visual

Andrew Abbott paints pictures a lot and sometimes people buy them, so luckily he isn’t a “starving artist.” He eats… Read more »

Waiting for My Father at the University Hospital Lab

Angela Narciso Torres - Waiting for My Father at the University Hospital Lab

Poetry

Angela Narciso Torres was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila. Her poems are available or forthcoming in Cimarron Review,… Read more »

Lettuce and Rabbits

Seth Sawyers - Lettuce and Rabbits

Sprints

Seth Sawyers has had essays appear in The Baltimore Sun, online at The Morning News, and in the literary journals… Read more »

Hotel Room, Marseilles, France

Roger Camp - Hotel Room, Marseilles, France

Visual

My work represents a means of exploration in a world unconstrained by physical boundaries. Photographs that are layered in mystery… Read more »

Missing Athena

Josh Green - Missing Athena

Fiction

Josh Green’s work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The MacGuffin, Atlanta Magazine, The Adirondack Review, New South, Lake… Read more »

An Evening with Willie Freeze

Gregory Wolos - An Evening with Willie Freeze

Fiction

Gregory J. Wolos’s fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, PANK, A Cappella Zoo, Jersey… Read more »

Reform, AL

Christopher Lowe - Reform, AL

Fiction

Christopher Lowe is the author of the short story collection Those Like Us (SFASU Press, 2011). His fiction and poetry… Read more »

Digging the Hole

Nathan Gower - Digging the Hole

Fiction

Nathan Gower holds a M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English at… Read more »

Digging In

Colin Rafferty - Digging In

Creative Nonfiction

Colin Rafferty teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Other recent essays can be read… Read more »

The Drive from Morgantown to Baltimore

Stephen J. West - The Drive from Morgantown to Baltimore

Sprints

Stephen J. West lives, writes, and teaches in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is also a columnist and creative nonfiction editor… Read more »

Little Hands of Silk

Ajay Vishwanathan - Little Hands of Silk

Fiction

Nominated multiple times for Pushcart and Best of The Net Anthology, Ajay has work published or forthcoming in over ninety… Read more »

Hunting Season

Peter Kispert - Hunting Season

Fiction

Peter Kispert is an undergraduate student currently living in New Hampshire, where he is Editor-in-Chief of Aegis and Sandpaper, the… Read more »

Against Relapse

Al Maginnes - Against Relapse

Poetry

Al Maginnes’s most recent books are Ghost Alphabet (White Pine Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 White Pine Poetry Prize,… Read more »

Close Dreams

Christopher Woods - Close Dreams

Visual

I was a writer long before I ever thought of being a photographer. I had always loved photographs, but since… Read more »

Man Skate

Wendy Oleson - Man Skate

Fiction

Wendy is a Senior Fiction Reader for Prairie Schooner. Her recent work appears in Copper Nickel, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and… Read more »

An Artist's Creation, Relaxation

Chandler Oliphant - An Artist's Creation, Relaxation

Visual

I took this photograph last Spring in Vejer de La Frontera, a small town near the beach in Cádiz, Spain.… Read more »

The Butterfly Man

Devin Murphy - The Butterfly Man

Fiction

Devin Murphy’s recent work appears in The Cimarron Review, The Greensboro Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and… Read more »

Come In, Come In

Jen Murvin Edwards - Come In, Come In

Contest - 3rd Place

Jen Murvin Edwards’ stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Palooka, Moon City Review, and Huizache literary journals, and… Read more »

Letters in a Box

Dorianne Laux - Letters in a Box

Poetry

Dorianne Laux’s most recent collections are The Book of Men and Facts about the Moon. A finalist for the National… Read more »

On Maimeó

Heather Martin - On Maimeó

Contest - 2nd Place

A writer living in Denver, Colorado, Heather Martin teaches at the University of Denver and co-curates the Gypsy House Reading… Read more »