Bo Smolka
Guest Contributor
USA
Bo Smolka is a Baltimore-based writer whose essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Baltimore Sun, among other places, and he is working on a collection of essays on family and fatherhood. He holds a bachelor’s degree in math and English from Bucknell and a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins.
Articles, essays, and other writing on Panorama by Bo Smolka can be accessed using the links below.
My Father Not Yet My Father
I pulled on the rope cord that hung from the ceiling, and the attic steps yawned open with a creak and a groan. My sister...
Summer of Seventeen
My older brother Dan and I stood patiently along the side of the road north of Accra, Ghana. A white Daihatsu pickup truck approached, and...