Founder/Director Kerry Folan:

Kerry Folan is a reader, a writer, and a professor of writing and literature at George Mason University. She was formerly the editor of Women in the Arts magazine and the fashion news website Racked.com. Her essays and journalism have appeared in popular outlets and literary journals including ARTNews, Atlas Obscura, the Baltimore Review, BOMB, The Cut, Glamour, Hippocampus, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and the Washington Post, among others. She has been living on the Eastern Shore since 2017 and earnestly believes in the power of books to expand our experience of the world and to create a more connected community. If you see her walking her greyhound Pilot around town, stop and tell her what you're reading!

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In the Press:

"Shore Lit: A Thriving Literary Community"
Shore Monthly, May/June 2024

"Shore Lit: Creating a Literary Community"
Tidewater Times, November 2023

"Shore Lit After Year One: A Chat with Kerry Folan"
Talbot Spy, September 9, 2023

"Bringing the World of Books and Writers to the Shore: A Chat with Shore Lit’s Founder Kerry Folan"
Talbot Spy, January 7, 2023​

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The Shore Lit Fund is a component fund of Mid-Shore Community Foundation, a public foundation designated as a 501(c)(3) charity. Shore Lit is funded in part by grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and The Artistic Insights Fund of the Midshore Community Foundation, as well as donations from community members like you.