Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University, The Writing Seminars, Fiction Concentration, M.A.
Towson University, English: Writing Concentration, B.A.
Spanish Literature, B.A.
International Learning Centres, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Certificate
Creative Writing
Composition
ESOL
Honors College
Mildred Landrum-Hesser grew up in California and Maryland and has also lived and taught abroad in Japan. Her main areas of focus throughout her career have been in writing, editing, playing music, and teaching. Her fiction, poetry, articles, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, and her songs have been recorded and released on albums and compilations.
In progress:
Time Zone (feature-length screenplay); Playhouse Land (middle grade novel); upcoming Waterplanet band musical release with Plaid Dog Recording (2024) – title TBA
Her research consists of written and musical projects, solo and collaborative, in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as songwriting, recording, and performing.
Writing:
Maryland Bards Poetry Review 2023; Shirashin (Japanese/English journal, Kyoto, Japan); Unspoken: Voices in Modern Culture; The Pearl; Music Monthly; Influence: The Arts in Baltimore; In Motion Film and Video Magazine; Nada; Whomanwarp; Baltimore Music Review; The Towerlight; Grub Street; Seventeen.
Music:
Waterplanet band recordings: Never Far; Songs for Holiday Living, Vol. I & II; Ghost-Hypnotic; Here We Go!; Indie Anthems, Vol. 5 (compilation), WiFi PR; Buzzlighter 8 “Natural Anthems” (compilation), Shuteye Records; 2-headed monster; smokescreen; cindercone; under the rug; ACR studio sessions (remix Joe Natoli), 24-7 Records; undercurrent; WATERPLANET.
The Melvyn band releases: “Drawn Lines.” Maryland Musicians for Music, Basement Floor Productions Records. Vinyl compilation LP (songwriter/musician); “Up with the Lipp.” Essential Attitudes: Vol. 3, Frantic Records. Vinyl compilation LP (musician).
Editing:
Landrum, Cynthia, Ph.D. The Valley of the Kings: Rehabilitation of the People of the Columbia River and Pacific Rim through Ceremonialism. Vernon, B.C.: JCharlton Publishing, 2017. Print. (assistant editor).
Additional editing work:
Influence: The Arts in Baltimore (editor); The Endless Closet (editor); From Pig Iron to Cotton Duck: A History of Manufacturing Villages in Baltimore (production editor); Easton Album (production editor); Grub Street (student co-editor-in-chief and poetry editor).
Modern Musician Gold Artist Academy
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
D.E.I. English Department working group/sub-committee