Chelsea Lemon Fetzer
Chelsea Lemon Fetzer earned her MFA in Fiction at Syracuse University. She is a 2019 Rubys recipient for the Literary Arts and a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council’s 2022 Independent Artist Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as Callaloo, Tin House, Mississippi Review, and Minnesota Review. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about being Mixed Race in the 21st Century and City of Artists: Baltimore. In addition to mothering two fiercely inspired daughters and working on a novel, Fetzer teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Baltimore, serves as vice chair on the board of CityLit Project, and is an editor and writer at BmoreArt Magazine.
Stories by Chelsea Lemon Fetzer
"The words ‘childlike wonder’ come up with all of them. That's what the artists want to invoke in attendees—inviting adults back to play, realizing the power in being in that space."
It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.
An interview ahead of Smith's reading and performance at A Home for the Heart to Live In: an annual gathering of Cave Canem poets hosted by CityLit at Motor House on December 8.
An interview with Rachel Graham on the way forward for the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.