Chelsea Lemon Fetzer

Chelsea Lemon Fetzer

Contributing Editor

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
CityLit Brings the Acclaimed Poet to Baltimore on December 8th

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.

New CEO Rachel Graham Welcomes the Conversation

An interview with Rachel Graham on the way forward for the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.

Black Woman Genius Features Ten Intergenerational Fiber Artists from the Chesapeake Area

How else could Baltimore properly honor the legacy of Elizabeth Talford Scott, but with radical unconventionality, centering community and accessibility?

Thoughts Inspired by the Enoch Pratt Library’s 36th Annual Booklovers' Breakfast

This, the Pratt’s 36th Breakfast, was to be my first. And so, with little idea of what to expect, I daydreamed about Jesmyn and me sitting across a fancy table, spearing pancakes and passing the bacon whilst talking about characters we had yet to bring to life.