Wish You Were Here: Baltimore Women Writers Introduce Yellow Arrow’s Vignette
Curated by DR. TONEE MAE MOLL
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
31st Street & Barclay Street
Waverly Neighborhood
Experience the spectrum of Charm City voices as Yellow Arrow Publishing’s Vignette writers share their work curated by Poetry Editor, DR. TONEE MAE MOLL: BRIGITTE WINTER, TRISH BROOME, KAY WHITE DREW, JENNIFER MARTINELLI EYRE, BARBARA WESTWOOD DIEHL, ANNA SLESINKSI, TRACY DIMOND, CHERRIE WOOD, ROBIN L. FLANIGAN, DIANE Y. MACKLIN, and MY-AZIA JOHNSON. Trish Broome is a half-Korean writer and poet who grew up in Newport News, Virginia. After college, she moved to Baltimore and fell in love with the city and its diverse culture, and she considers it her second home. Tracy Dimond is a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist and the author of the full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry (Barrelhouse), and four chapbooks, including: TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE and Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today, winner of Baltimore City Paper’s Best Chapbook. Robin L. Flanigan is a national award-winning freelance journalist and the author of four books, including the celebrity-endorsed M is for Mindful. My-Azia Johnson (They/Them) is a writer, community caretaker, and Communications & Engagement Manager at Impact Hub Baltimore. They’re confident that pleasure is a liberatory pathway toward radical change, and they see their work as a satirical conversation with QTPOC, mentally ill, and dark-spirited cunni-linguists who agree. Diane Macklin is a narrative artist as a storyteller, writer, and consultant. She believes in “Making a Difference, One Story at a Time” in all she does! Jennifer is a writer of poetry and fiction for both children and adults. She recently earned her MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Anna Slesinski is a Baltimore City poet and artist. Her work has been previously published in Welter Literary Journal and by the Baltimore Ekphrasis Project. Barbara Westwood Diehl is the senior editor of The Baltimore Review. Her poems and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications. Kay White Drew is a retired neonatal physician and writer. Her memoir of medical training in the 1970s, Stress Test, was published in June 2024 by Apprentice House Press. Brigitte Winter is a writer, photographer, and game designer based in Maryland. She is also a Co-Founder of Scryptid Games, and the Executive Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater. Cherrie Woods (aka Cherrie Amour) is a Baltimore-based award-winning poet whose candid, narrative style is shared in her self-published book Free to Be Me: Poems on Love, Life, and Relationships.Dr. Tonee Mae Moll is the author of Out of Step: a Memoir (Lambda Literary Award) and You Cannot Save Here (Jean Feldman Poetry Prize).
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TRISH BROOME (she/her) is a half-Korean writer and poet who grew up in Newport News, Virginia. After college, she moved to Baltimore and fell in love with the city and its diverse culture, and she considers it her second home. She received her B.A. from Longwood College and her M.A. from Loyola University Maryland. Her poetry is featured in You Might Need to Hear This, Half and One, Cure Today and the forthcoming Kinsman Avenue Quarterly and SLAM! Anthology. She is also a contributor to the book, A Letter to My Mom. Trish currently resides in Maryland with her husband, two rescue dogs and daughter. She works at the local library and considers herself a kimchi connoisseur.
trishbroome.com
Instagram: @trishb.poetry
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TRACY DIMOND is a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist. She is the author of the full length poetry collection, Emotion Industry (Barrelhouse), and four chapbooks, including: TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE (akinoga press) and Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press), winner of Baltimore City Paper’s Best Chapbook. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore.
poetsthatsweat.com
Instagram: @glitterature72
X: @snarkysyntax
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ROBIN L. FLANIGAN is a national award-winning freelance journalist for magazines and newspapers. She was a beat reporter for eleven years in newsrooms including Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle. Her work has been published in People Magazine, AARP, USA Today, and Education Week, and her essays have appeared in The Sun and other literary magazines and anthologies. In addition to the book 100 Things To Do In Rochester Before You Die, published by Reedy Press, she is the author of the celebrity-endorsed children’s book M is for Mindful and co-author of the narrative nonfiction book Climbing Out: An Adventure in Rediscovering Life After Loss. She climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2008, where she saw the curvature of the earth at sunrise.
www.thekineticpen.com
Instagram: @100thingsinrochester
X: @thekineticpen
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MY-AZIA JOHNSON (They/Them) is a writer and community caretaker with a fiery passion for transformative justice. They seek to uplift the Black, queer, mentally ill, and gender-expansive perspective. Their work at Impact Hub Baltimore supports dismantling economic and social barriers to foster a more equitable community, particularly for Baltimoreans from historically excluded identities. From their journey through the ex-evangelical to ethical slut pipeline, they share stories of breakthroughs and breakdowns experienced along the way. The ceremonies of life, love, and death inspire them, like the everyday moments of being, connecting, and evolving. Their lens draws from a burgeoning understanding of collectivism, decolonization, and the wisdom of nature and somatics. They’re confident that pleasure is a liberatory pathway to radical change, and they see their work as a satirical conversation with the dark-spirited cunni-linguists who agree.
Instagram: @funsizedchaos
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DIANE Y. MACKLIN has found refuge in stories since childhood. She is a professional storyteller, teaching artist, and writer with a Master of Arts in Teaching middle school English from Simmons College. Beautiful Baltimore is her current home base. In 2000, she was called beyond the classroom walls into the ancient art of storytelling which transformed her narrative career. She has performed from Massachusetts to California; and, her written work has received honorable mention by Passager Poetry Contest 2024. As a daughter of Great Migration parents, Diane aims to honor their sacrifices that weld together education and opportunity for their children. She has grown from a child curled around a tiny notebook, writing stories in a script so minuscule only a magnifying glass made the marks legible, to living boldly as a full-time artist.
www.dianemacklin.com
Instagram: @dmacstorylady
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TONEE MAE MOLL is a queer & trans poet & essayist. She is the author of Out of Step: A Memoir, which won the Lambda Literary Award in bisexual nonfiction and the Non/Fiction Collection Prize. Her latest book, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from WWPH. Her poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden award for creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize, along with nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. Tonee Mae holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from University of Baltimore and a Ph.D. in English from Morgan State University. She is a Gemini.
toneemoll.com
Instagram: @toneemoll
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JENNIFER MARTINELLI EYRE graduated with her MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in January 2023, where she spent her time studying writing for children and young adults. Jennifer enjoys exploring various literary styles of writing, particularly free verse poetry. When she is not writing, Jennifer can be found behind a desk at her full-time job or reading one of the many books piled on her nightstand. Jennifer has resided in Maryland her entire life and currently lives in Forest Hill with her husband, daughter, and ornery cat, who loves walking across keyboards.
Instagram: @jmeyrewriter
X: @JennyEyre
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ANNA SLESINSKI is a Baltimore City poet and artist. After receiving her high school diploma from the Baltimore School for the Arts, with a visual arts major, Anna studied creative writing and studio art at Goucher College. She received her BA in creative writing from Goucher in 2006, followed by an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts at the University of Baltimore in 2015. Her thesis, a book of poetry titled Eating the Sun, was published in May 2015. Her work has been previously published in Welter Literary Journal and by the Baltimore Ekphrasis Project.
Instagram: @aellis_editing
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BARBARA WESTWOOD DIEHL is founding and senior editor of The Baltimore Review. Her fiction and poetry appear in a variety of journals, including Quiddity, Potomac Review (Best of the 50), SmokeLong Quarterly, Gargoyle, Superstition Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Atticus Review, The MacGuffin, The Shore, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Raleigh Review, Ponder, Fractured Lit, South Florida Poetry Journal, Poetry South, Painted Bride Quarterly, Five South, Allium, Split Rock Review, Blink-Ink, Bacopa Review, Free State Review, and Yellow Arrow Vignette.
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/barbara_westwood_diehl
X: @BarbaraWestwood
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KAY WHITE DREW, a.k.a. Katherine White, M.D., is a retired neonatal physician. Her work appears in several anthologies and online journals including Gargoyle and Loch Raven Review, where one of her essays was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other places where her essays, poems, and short stories can be found include two volumes of the Grace in Gravity series, Bay to Ocean Journal, This Is What America Looks Like, and Pen in Hand; and online journals including Hektoen International, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Maryland Literary Review. Her memoir, Stress Test, was recently published by Apprentice House Press. She lives in Rockville, MD, with her husband and enjoys all manner of literary activities, travel, walking in the woods, and, of course, reading.
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BRIGITTE WINTER is a writer, photographer, and game designer based in Maryland. She is also a Co-Founder of Scryptid Games, and the Executive Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater, a DC-based company that inspires young people to realize the power of their voices through storytelling. The capacity of storytelling to connect, inspire, and incite is central to Brigitte’s art and her activism. She consumes and creates stories and games that are queer, feminist, intimate, and deliciously weird.
brigittewinter.com
Instagram: @bwinterose
X: @bwinterose
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CHERRIE WOODS (aka Cherrie Amour) is a Baltimore-based award-winning poet whose candid, narrative style is shared in her self-published book Free to Be Me: Poems on Love, Life and Relationships. Cherrie is the creator of the Words, Wine & Wings Poetry and Open Mic Show and has been featured in The Baltimore Beacon, Fox45-TV, and Baltimore City Paper. Her poems have been published in the Paterson Literary Review, Understorey Magazine, Poet’s Ink, The Fire Inside: Collected Poems and Stories from Zora’s Den, and Maryland in Poetry. She is working on her second poetry manuscript called Sit Comfortably Elsewhere.
cherrieamour.com
Instagram: @cherrie_amour_thepoet
X: @cherrieamour
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ABOUT YELLOW ARROW PUBLISHING:
Yellow Arrow supports writers and other creatives identifying as women through practical programming and access to the literary arts. Every woman has a story to tell. We inspire her to share it. When women share their stories with each other, it sparks a ripple effect of empathy, compassion, and understanding. We see creativity as an act of service, making this community not just about great literature, but about contributing to the collective voice. It’s about those who identify as women saying, yes—we belong here, too.
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com
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