Christine Drawl
Executive Director & Design
Christine Drawl joined Passager as a graduate student intern in 2015, learning everything about publishing (and Passager) from the bottom up. Now a fiction writer and designer, she has since received her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Her book of short stories, Grandmother Tree, was a 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist. Having grown up in small-town Ohio, raised on her grandmother’s stories, she recognizes the significance of passing your story on—a remarkable process she gets to witness at Passager again and again. Christine spends much of her non-Passager time “reviving” the 1890s house where she, her musical husband and their young daughter, live.
Rosanne Singer
Editor-in-Chief
Rosanne joined the Passager staff in 2019 and learned first-hand what goes on behind the scenes at a small press. And not just any small press, but Passager, where she has been part of the careful and loving process of reading and choosing material for the twice-yearly journals and individual collections. Rosanne spent 25 years as a teaching artist in the Maryland schools and was part of small arts teams working with wounded warriors and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and with pediatric patients at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. In May 2025 she completed an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts at University of Baltimore and produced a collection of her poetry titled Home Theater. Poetry and memoir work of hers appears in Allium, Grist, The Baltimore Fishbowl and Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine.
Mary Azrael
Senior Editor
Mary Azrael, Passager editor for over thirty years, said, “I’ve come to know remarkable people, ages 50 to 103, through their poems, stories, memoirs, and letters. What they say continues to surprise me and enrich my life.” Author of four books of poetry and the libretto for Lost Childhood, an opera, she has led poetry workshops for people ages 8-80 through Maryland’s Poets in the Schools and the Johns Hopkins Odyssey (continuing studies) program. As a Feldenkrais practitioner, she guides people through lessons to improve flexibility of movement and thinking. Words that make her heart leap up: bird, puppet, book, boots, post office. She loves finding real letters in her mailbox. Born in 1943, she is the oldest Passager staff member.
Sarah Rubin
Managing Editor
Jon Shorr
Podcast Producer
Growing up, Jon Shorr loved listening to radio drama, the “theatre of the mind.” He still does. Over the course of his career, along with teaching high school and college, he’s hosted a late night “classic” poetry show on Baltimore’s big band radio station and written and produced audio and video documentaries. Now that he’s retired (and, ironically, wearing hearing aids), he spends a lot of his time writing short stories and essays, writing and producing Passager’s weekly podcast Burning Bright, and looking for ways to bring more attention to Passager’s mission of publishing work by older writers.
Guest Readers
2026 Poetry Contest
Julie Cadwallader Staub
Shaheen Dil
Jenny Doughty
Judy Ireland
Robert Miner
Karen Paul Holmes
Gary Powell
Sunaina Tadakamalla
Intern
Sunaina Tadakamalla is an undergraduate English major at UC Berkeley, where she also works as a copyeditor for The Daily Californian. As a student and a writer, she is driven by curiosity and a love for the arts, especially music—listening to it, creating it, and finding community in it. She is inspired by her mother, a scientist by day and short fiction author and literary/film critic by night. Sunaina hopes to learn from the work of authors like her mother while working for Passager.
Anli Tamaribuchi
Intern
Hailing from Oakland, California, Anli Tamaribuchi is a recent Oberlin College graduate with a degree in Creative Writing and minors in English and Comparative American Studies. She is proud of her collaboration with student organizations to create programming and her participation in literary communities in Iowa, Oberlin, and Paris. A voracious reader, she also watches sitcoms, draws, and examines the world through feminist theory and history. As a writer and organizer, she learned that anything is possible if we approach every person with the belief that they have a worthwhile story to share.
Eleanor Yarbrough
Intern
Eleanor Yarbrough is an undergraduate at Sewanee: The University of the South, studying English, Creative Writing, and Classics. An oboist, she serves as an editor of the student-run literary magazine and has a lifelong love of literature. This love led her to Passager, where she will work as a Literary Publishing and Research intern.