SUSAN MUADDI DARRAJ - Senior Editor

Susan Muaddi Darraj earned her Master's degree in English literature from Rutgers University-Camden. Her stories, articles, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Al-Jadid, Mizna, New York Stories, Full Circle, Women and Language, Sojourner, Calyx, The Christian Science Monitor, and other forums. Her fiction and essays have also been anthologized in collections, including Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Feminism, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century, and Anthology of Arab-American Fiction. She recently edited an essay collection entitled Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women on Writing, which was published by Praeger Publishers in August 2004. Her collection of short stories, The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly, was a finalist in the 2003 AWP Awards Series in Fiction and was published by University of Notre Dame Press in March 2007. Her website is www.SusanMuaddiDarraj.com.

BARBARA WESTWOOD DIEHL - Founding Editor

Barbara Westwood Diehl is the founding editor of The Baltimore Review and served as managing editor from 1996-2003. She is a past president of the Baltimore Writers' Alliance, and an active member of Baltimore's literary community. Her short stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Antietam Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Rosebud, Thema, Midwest Poetry Review, Crescent Review, Confrontation , and a variety of other publications.

JOANNE CAVANAUGH SIMPSON

Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson is a nonfiction essayist, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of Literature on Deadline (Pacific Isle Publishing, 2007). She is a former staff writer for The Miami Herald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Johns Hopkins Magazine and has written articles and foreign correspondence for such venues as the Baltimore Sun, USA Weekend, and The American Journalism Review, including reportage from Cuba and China. Her literary essays have appeared in the journal Creative Nonfiction and Letters to J.D. Salinger, a collection published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She is currently working on a book of essays titled On Love And Children. Cavanaugh Simpson earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and her M.A. from Hopkins' Writing Seminars. Her master's thesis, on Cuba's dissident journalists, was funded by Harvard University’s Goldsmith Research Award. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and two children.

TESS HOFFMAN - Managing Editor

Tess Hoffman, a New Jersey native, has lived in Towson for several years. She completed her Master's degree in English literature at Rutgers University-Camden and her Master of Arts in Teaching degree at Goucher College, and has taught college and high school English. She currently writes and edits for Words & Numbers, a Baltimore-based company that develops content for educational publishers.

NATE HAKEN - Managing Web Editor

Nate Haken's fiction and haiku poetry have been published or are forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts, The Iconoclast, The Climbing Art , The Raven Chronicles, Potpourri, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and The Heron's Nest . Born in Nigeria and raised in Cameroon, Haken came to the United States in 1994 to complete his university education. In addition to writing creatively, he has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a French legal and medical interpreter for refugees. Also he spent 3 years hitchhiking around the United States, Central America and the Caribbean.  Excerpts of his writing can be found at www.natehaken.blogspot.com.  

HEATHER HARRIS - Book Review Editor

Heather Harris earned her MFA in creative nonfiction writing at Goucher College and is currently a full-time faculty member in the English Department at the Community College of Baltimore County. Heather has been on staff as a writer at the City University of New York and as an editor at Urbanite magazine in Baltimore. At present, in addition to teaching, she freelances for the Baltimore City Paper, writing about books, writing, and women's issues.

CATHERINE HARRISON 

Catherine Harrison lives in Towson, Maryland. She has a BA in English from St. Mary's College of Maryland and an MAT in Secondary English from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She recently completed an MS in professional writing at Towson University and is currently working as a freelance writer. She worked as an intern with The Baltimore Review in the spring and summer of 2005.

KATHLEEN HELLEN

KIM JENSEN

Kim Jensen is a writer who has lived and taught in California, France, and the Middle East. She and her husband have been active in human rights movements for many years. Her writings have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including Al Jadid, Rain Taxi Review, Boston Book Review, Al Ahram Weekly, Oakland Tribune, So to Speak, Gathering of the Tribes, and Poetry Flash. In 2001, a section from her debut novel, The Woman I Left Behind, won the Raymond Carver Prize for Short Fiction. She currently lives in Maryland, where she is Assistant Professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County. For more information about Kim's work, visit: www.kimjensen.org.

MICHAEL KABEL

Michael Kabel has lived all over Louisiana and worked for years in television before giving that up to become a writer. He relocated to Atlanta last year, where he is working on a short story collection. His stories have appeared in Liquid Monthly Culture, Cairn and Jabberock.

JOHN LOW  

John Low, professor emeritus and former chair of
English at the Community College of Baltimore County, joins us as a
fiction and nonfiction reviewer. His latest publication is an article on the novelist Alan Furst for The Dictionary of Literary Biography.

SUSAN McCALLUM-SMITH

Susan McCallum-Smith received her MA from Glasgow University, Scotland, in 1987. Following a career in international business, she moved to Canada, earned an MBA from Ottawa University and worked as a management consultant. Before turning to fiction, she wrote on trade policy for the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington D.C. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing program and a participant in the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Conferences, she is currently completing her first novel.

LIZ MOSER

 Liz Moser writes poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews and memoirs. Her chapbook, Spirit Pond and Other Maine Poems (Goose River Press 2004) focuses on mid-coast Maine. She is one of four women who published a collection of poetry, Leavings (Bay River Press, 2005). Other published works reflect her Maryland upbringing and residence. She received a 2003 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference fiction award and The Potomac Review’s 2002 Poetry Prize, as well as fiction and poetry awards in Baltimore Writers’ Association contests. She is well represented in national and regional journals and magazines, including Off the Coast, Wolf Moon Press Journal, Northwoods Journal, Down East, Goose River Press Anthology, Passager and The Urbanite. Two of her poems are in the Poets Against the War website anthology and a memoir, “Growing Up in Two Families” is published in Generations (Jewish Museum of Maryland).

GREGG MOSSON

 Gregg Mosson is the author of two books of poetry, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press) and Questions of Fire (Plain View Press).  His poetry and criticism have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Potomac Review, Free Verse, The Cincinnati Review, and The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics.  He also founded and edits the journal Poems Against War (Wasteland Press).  He has an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he was a teaching fellow and lecturer; BA in English from Portland State University; and lives in Maryland.  For more information, seek www.greggmosson.com.
 

LALITA NORONHA

Born in Bombay, India, Lalita Noronha is a research scientist, writer, poet and teacher. Recipient of a Fulbright travel grant to the U.S., she earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology (St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.) an M.S. in Genetics (Univ. of Bombay,) B.S. in Botany (Univ. of Baroda, India,) and is a widely published scientist.

Her literary prose and poetry has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Catholic Review, Catholic Digest, The Christian Science Monitor, Potomac Review, Fodderwing, Wordwrights, Crab Orchard Review, Passager, A Journal of Remembrance and Discovery, Brickstreet, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Urbanite, among others. Her work has also been anthologized: “A Thousand Worlds, An anthology of Indian Women Writers” (Aurat Press), “Great Writers, Great Stories from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.” (I.M. Press), “Thy Mother’s Glass” (Wordhouse), “Get Well Wishes” (Harper Collins, San Francisco), and “2001: A Science Poetry Anthology” (Anamnesis Press). She is a recipient of the Maryland Literary Arts Award for Short Story twice—(1997 and 2001) and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist award in fiction in 2002, City Paper, and the National League of American Pen Women.

Her debut collection of short stories, Where Monsoons Cry, was published by Black Words Press, A Do The Write Thing Book in 2004. Currently working on a novel, she is a fiction editor for The Baltimore Review, and a science teacher at St. Paul’s School for Girls. Her website is www.lalitanoronha.com.

MEREDYTH SANTANGELO

Meredyth Santangelo graduated from Kent State University with a B.A. in English. Shortly after, she graduated from Youngstown State University with an M.A. in English. She currently teaches composition and creative writing at Harford Community College, where she is an assistant professor. She also does freelance writing.

The Editorial Board of The Baltimore Review would like to offer special thanks to past board members and to recognize their contributions and service to TBR:

Dick Green

Lisa Beyer
Lynn Buck

Patricia Schultheis 

Colleen Webster