Associate Professor Lysley Tenorio is one of six Baltimore-area artists to win a 2025 Baker Artist Award. The Baker Artist Awards were established by the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund and are a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance to support artists and promote Greater Baltimore as a strong creative community. Annual prizes are “awarded to artists who exemplify a mastery of craft, commitment to excellence, and a unique and compelling vision.” Professor Tenorio has won a $10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Award for Literary Arts.

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Lysley Tenorio is the author of Monstress and The Son of Good Fortune. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and Zoetrope: All-Story, and he has received a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in the Philippines, he is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.