Baltimore Review Contributors: Readings and Conversation

Ned Balbo’s six books include The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award). His work appears in Attached to the Living World: a New Ecopoetry Anthology (Terra Firma Press) and Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology (Paraclete). He’s taught recently at the Frost Farm and WCU poetry conferences and as visiting faculty in Iowa State’s MFA program. 

Michael Downs is the author of three books, including most recently the novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist. His awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Scholar award through which he wrote and taught in Krakow, Poland. He lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing for Johns Hopkins University.

Kathleen Hellen is the author of three collections and three chapbooks, most recently young girl in the flower of time from Lily Poetry Review Books. Her collection Umberto’s Night won the prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Hellen’s poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Faultline, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. 

Joshua Jones Lofflin’s writing has appeared in The Baltimore Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. His work has received numerous awards and has been anthologized in The Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, and ECO: The Year’s Best Ecofiction. He lives in Frederick, Maryland.

Annie Marhefka is a writer in Baltimore and the Executive Director at Yellow Arrow Publishing, a Baltimore-based press. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore, and has authored two collections, Strangers We Know By Heart, and Baltimore, a travelogue memoir.

Jane Satterfield’s six poetry books include The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Book Prize) and Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize). Luminous Crown, winner of the 2025 Tenth Gate Prize, is forthcoming this year from The Word Works. Satterfield’s work also appears in Greening the Earth: A Global Poetry Anthology (Vintage) and Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically (NYU Press). She is a professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.