Rebecca J. Ritzel

Rebecca Ritzel is a Washington, D.C.-based arts journalist who contributes to the Washington Post and other publications. She also teaches writing at the University of Maryland. She previously spent five years as the arts writer at the Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer Journal. She left that paper in 2005 to earn a master's degree in arts journalism at Syracuse University.

Visit her website at www.rjritzel.com.

Photo: Mark Weinhold.