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Dorothea Bonneau is the author of Seekers from Zanaparon, Northwestern Publishing Company as well as stage plays, articles, weekly newspaper columns, radio plays, and has had a screen play optioned by Dramatic Publishing Company. She was Keynote Speaker, California Gifted and Talented Youth, and has adapted and directed six stage plays for young people. She has been a communications and creative writing instructor at the high school and college level.
Geoff Bouvier’s first book, Living Room, was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His second book, Glass Harmonica, was published in 2011 by Quale Press. Recent writings have appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, New American Writing, Western Humanities Review, and VOLT. He received an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 1997, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University in 2016. In 2009, he was the Roberta C. Holloway visiting poet at the University of California-Berkeley. He teaches poetry and nonfiction at the University of Tampa, and is Poetry Editor of Tampa Review.
Andy Braithwaite was awarded 3rd place in the Ilkley Poetry competition when he was eight years old, but has done nothing since. He has read many books, even some without pictures, although usually over a long period of time. He has recently become the Web Chappie at Sweet: A Literary Confection and will be presenting at the Sweet table at AWP where he will have to figure out what to talk about, as few authors seem to like watching airplane videos on YouTube.
Polly Buckingham will be editor of Willow Springs Magazine and is the founding editor of StringTown magazine and press. She was associate director for Willow Springs Books. Her book, The Expense of a View, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction (2016) and A Year of Silence won the Jeanne Lieby Memorial Chapbook Award (The Florida Review Press). Her work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Threepenny Review and others, and she was twice a finalist for the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She spent a good deal of her childhood years in Florida and attended Eckerd College.
Wendy Buffington received an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi in 2012 where she was awarded The Bondurant Prize in Poetry. An alumnus of Eckerd College’s PEL program and Writers in Paradise conference, she has worked as a waitress, lawyer, newspaper copy editor, lab tech (working with salmon blood in Maine and fruit flies in Florida!), and writing instructor. In 1993, she rode a bicycle from Florida to Alaska via Mexico. Her manuscript, Looking for Water, won the YellowJacket Press Chapbook Contest in 2015. She lives in New Port Richey with a sweet, sweet dog—Mack.
Gregory Byrd’s poems have appeared widely in journals such as the Tampa Review, Apalachee Review, Cortland Review, Poeteka

(Albania, in translation), and many others. Among his poetry books are Salt and Iron (Snake Nation, 2014), At Penuel (Split Oak, 2011) and Florida Straits (Yellowjacket Press, 2005), which won the first Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Contest for Florida Poets.  Among his awards are a Creative Pinellas Rapid Returns Fellowship (2016), Fulbright Fellowship to Albania (2011), an SPC Distinguished Teaching Award (2015). Greg has a M.A. in Creative Writing from Florida State University and Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greg fishes the flats near Clearwater, rides his bicycle and works on his 1966 Ford pickup.  He teaches writing and humanities at St. Petersburg College.


Rick Campbell’s most recent book is The History of Steel: A Selected Works (2014), from All Nations Press. His other books include Dixmont, Autumn House (2008); The Traveler’s Companion, Black Bay Books (2004); Setting the World In Order, Texas Tech (2001); and A Day’s Work, State Street Press (2000). He’s won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two poetry fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. Poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, Prairie Schooner, Fourth River, Kestrel, Puerto Del Sol, New Madrid and other journals. Campbell was the director of Anhinga Press for twenty years and is a founder and the Director of the Florida Literary Arts Coalition and its Other Words Conference. He teaches in the Sierra Nevada College Low Residency MFA Program and also teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.
Maari Carter’s work has appeared in such places as Superstition Review, Oxford Magazine, and Salt Hill Journal, among others. She is also the recipient of the Philip Booth Prize for Poetry.
Casey Clague serves on the board of YellowJacket Press. He writes poetry and nonfiction in the MFA program at the University of South Florida. Previous publications include Vagabond City and Drunk in a Midnight Choir. 
Carrie J. Cole teaches integrative theater studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and is a director/dramaturg/performer/fight choreographer. She recently devised and directed The Electriad using Greek mythology to explore the repercussions of war. In addition to producing and directing Flash Play readings here and at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, she directs fully staged productions at Theater-By-The-Grove, where she will next direct Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer nominated The Wolves.
Katherine Conner teaches creative writing at Nicholls State University, where she cofounded Gris-Gris: An Online Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in West Branch, Pembroke Magazine, Willow Springs, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Fugue, The Chattahoochee Review, The Portland Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of the doctoral creative writing program at Florida State University, she also holds a Master’s from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.


Michael Cooper lives in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in American literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing at Ashford University. A Pushcart nominee and former editor at The Southeast Review, his critical essays and fiction have appeared in journals such as The Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, and New Ohio Review.


Silvia Curbelo is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Falling Landscape and The Secret History of Water, both from Anhinga Press, and two chapbooks. A native of Cuba, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cintas Foundation and the Writer’s Voice, as well as the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Prize from American Poetry Review. She lives in Tampa.
Anne DaVigo, a former crime beat and court journalist for several California newspapers, published her literary thriller, Thread of Gold (2017) and four short stories. Her latest literary fiction novel, The Bakersfield Boys Club, winner of the Jameson Award (2016), is being marketed, and her latest novel about a female spy is in process. She organized a prompt group that has, for over ten years, inspired writers, and published Coffee and Ink, a collection of their writings.
Erica Dawson is the author of two collections of poetry: Big-Eyed Afraid, winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and The Small Blades Hurt, winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize.  Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Barrow Street, Harvard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals and anthologies. An associate professor of English and Writing, she is the director of University of Tampa’s Low-Residency MFA program.
Laura DeSousa is a senior in the creative writing program at Howard W. Blake High School and the recipient of the 2017 Charlie Hounchell Art Stars scholarship for poetry. She has performed at Brave New Voices and Gasparilla Fringe Festival. Her poetry can be found in Blake’s literary magazine, Synapse. Her chapbook will be published in 2018.
Nick DiChario's short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, among them The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. He's been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and his first two novels, A Small and Remarkable Life and Valley of Day-Glo, both received nominations for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. His most recent project involves reviving the Italian folktale tradition with new stories set in modern times, and he has guest-edited the fall issue of the journal Voices in Italian Americana dedicated to the contemporary folktale.
Chelsea Dingman’s first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). In 2016-17, she also won The Southeast Review’s Gearhart Poetry Prize, The Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, and Water-stone Review’s Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. Her work can be found in Ninth Letter, The Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others. Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.
Amy Lee Edwards is a recent graduate of USF-Tampa's creative writing program, Amy Edwards is the assistant editor at WordSmitten Media, Inc. and completed the WSM internship program. After attending the 2017 Book Expo America (BEA) in New York City, she became an avid fan of Manhattan. She already is an avid reader, an emerging editor, and short story writer. New York Style Pizza -- now a favorite after her trip to the Big Apple.


Jacqueline Edwards is a 2017 graduate of Deltona High School in Deltona,FL.  She was an editor for Howl for her entire high school career and has had an article published in The Review Review. She plans to study Special Education after obtaining her AA degree from Daytona State College. 
Dylan Emerick-Brown is the English department chair at Deltona High School and the creator/faculty adviser for the school’s student-run literary magazine, Howl. A recipient of the Florida Teacher Leader Fellowship and Volusia County Secondary English Teacher of the Year award, as well as a published poet, his passion is sharing his love of the literary arts with the next generations of writers and editors.
Beth Engelman holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Tampa, where she was recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Award. She holds an MA in Poetry from Lancaster University and was the recipient of the 2017 Marianne Russo Award, an Emerging Writer Award from the Key West Literary Seminar. She also received the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Ireland. Her essay “Mother Tongue” was recently published in The New York Times. She writes OnDeafness.com, a blog for The Family Center on Deafness and lives in Dunedin, Florida with her family.
Pamela Hill Epps’ work has appeared in literary publications such as The White Pelican Review, Poetica, Wild Violet, and Writing Motherhood (Scribner). Her chapbook A Last Glance was published by YellowJacket Press. She is a psychologist, poet and jazz musician living in Tampa Fl.
Rupert Fike's poems and short fiction have appeared in Rosebud (Pushcart nominee), The Georgetown Review, Snake Nation Review (winner 2006 single poem competition), The Atlanta Review (forthcoming), Natural Bridge, FutureCycle, Borderlands, storySouth, The Cumberland Poetry Review, and others. A poem of his has been inscribed in a downtown Atlanta plaza, and his non-fiction work, Voices From The Farm, accounts of life on a spiritual community in the 1970s, is now available in paperback.
Amanda J. Forrester is an MFA candidate in poetry at The University of Tampa.  She joined the Saint Leo University staff in 2012 after several years in public education.  Amanda’s poems have appeared in the Sandhill Review, and she teaches poetry workshops for the Pasco Fine Arts Council.
Alice Friman’s sixth full-length collection is The View from Saturn, LSU Press. Her previous collection is Vinculum, LSU, for which she won the 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, is included in Best American Poetry, and has just won the 2016 Paumanok Award. She's been published in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, New Letters, etc. and in 13 other countries. Friman lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where was Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College. Her podcast, Ask Alice, can be seen on YouTube.
John Gifford is a writer and naturalist, and the author of, most recently, Wish You Were Here, a collection of very short fiction. His essays have appeared in Southwest Review, The Smart Set, Notre Dame Magazine, Arkansas Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. He lives in Oklahoma.
Suzannah Gilman, author of the poetry chapbook I Will Meet You at the River, blogs for The Gloria Sirens, an online magazine written by women (who think their male readers are cool guys). Her work has appeared in the anthologies Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Family Matters: Poems of our Family, Legal Studies Forum, and The Rollins Book of Verse 1885-2010, and in such journals as The Florida Review, Calyx, Pearl, The Café Review, Prick of the Spindle, and Levure Litteraire. A licensed attorney, she represented victims of domestic violence under a grant from the U.S. DOJ Office on Violence Against Women.
Kelle Groom’s four poetry collections are Spill, (October 2017, Anhinga Press),Five Kingdoms (Anhinga Press), Luckily (Anhinga), and Underwater City (University Press of Florida). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Her memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, a Library Journal Best Memoir, Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month, Oprah O Magazine selection, and Oxford American Editor's Pick. An NEA Fellow, Groom's honors also include fellowships from Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and the Library of Congress, among others. Groom was Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, where she is now on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts where she is Director of the Summer Workshops & Collaborative Residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center.


Kenneth Hart teaches writing at New York University and is Poetry Editor of The Florida Review. His poems have been published in Arts & Letters, North American Review, Mississippi Review, Barrow Street, The Bellingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and elsewhere. His book reviews and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review and Journal of New Jersey Poets. He is the 2007 co-winner of the Allen Ginsberg Award and the recipient of the 2008 editor's prize for New Ohio Review. Hart's book, Uh Oh Time was selected by Mark Jarman as winner of the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry.
Michael Hettich's most recent book of poems, The Frozen Harbor, was published this year. Other books include Systems of Vanishing (University of Tampa Press, 2014) and Like Happiness (Anhinga, 2010). He lives in Miami and teaches at Miami Dade College.
Linda Heuring is a short story writer known for her character-driven narratives and her penchant for the overheard phrase.  Her short fiction has appeared in Crannog (Ireland), Crack the Spine, Rosebud, Kestrel, Alabama Literary Review, Broad River Review and Dos Passos Review, among other publications. She has been awarded the Fish International Short Story Prize (Ireland), was twice a finalist for the Rash Award in Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (UK).  A Southern writer dragged across the Mason-Dixon line, she now lives outside Chicago.
Shane Hinton teaches writing at the University of Tampa and lives in the winter strawberry capital of the world. His debut story collection Pinkies was selected as a finalist for a 2016 Firecracker Award by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and his fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Bridge Eight, Saw Palm, Word Riot, The Nervous Breakdown, storySouth, and others.
Kevin Ip is currently an MFA student at the University of South Florida. His work has appeared in Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine.
Yuki Jackson serves on the board of YellowJacket Press.
Jeff John is a recent USF graduate who works on the digital magazine platform for WordSmitten and writes restaurant reviews and for his personal objectives, short stories. He is working on a novel.
Andrea Jurjević is a poet and translator from Rijeka, Croatia. Her work has appeared in EPOCH, TriQuarterly, Best New Poets, the Missouri Review, The Journal, Gulf Coast, and many other literary journals. Her first poetry collection, Small Crimes, won the 2015 Philip Levine Prize, and her translation of Mamasafari (and other things), a collection of prose poems in Croatian by Olja Svičević Ivančević, is forthcoming from Lavender Ink / Diálogos. She is a recipient of a Robinson Jeffers Tor Prize, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Hambidge Fellowship. She works as a Lecturer in English at Georgia State University. 
Jen Karetnick has published seven poetry collections, most recently American Sentencing (Winter Goose Publishing, 2016), which was a 2017 finalist for the Julie Suk Award, and The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, 2016), a finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award. The author of three cookbooks, including the Les Dames d'Escoffier Excellence in Culinary Writing Award-winning book Mango (University Press of Florida, 2014), she works as an educator, dining critic and freelance journalist. 
Carol Lynne Knight is a co-director of Anhinga Press. Her book, Quantum Entanglement, was published by Apalachee Press in 2010. Her poetry has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Tar River Review, Comstock Review, Redactions, Iconoclast, So to Speak, The Ledge, Slipstream, Broome Review, and in the anthologies Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press), Touched by Eros (Live Poets Society), and Beloved on the Earth (Holy Cow! Press). She is a winner of the Penumbra Poetry Prize, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for the Arts. She is the co-editor of Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets. 
Bob Kunzinger's work has appeared in many journals including Kestrel, Southern Humanities Review and Muse, as well as the Washington Post, World War 2 History and several essays have been noted in Best American Essays.
Mia Leonin is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Chance Born (Anhinga Press) and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers(University of Arizona Press). A book-length poem, Fable of the Pack Saddle Child will be published by BkMk Press in 2018 with illustrations by Cuban artist, Nereida García Ferraz. Leonin has been awarded fellowships from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs for her poetry and creative nonfiction, two Money for Women grants by the Barbara Deming Fund, and she has been a fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts/Annenberg Institute on Theater and Musical Theater. Leonin has written extensively about theater and culture for the Miami Herald, New Times, and other publications. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.


Susan Lilley’s work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, Southern Review, Drunken Boat, Slipstream, and Sweet, and elsewhere. She is the 2009 winner of the Rita Dove Poetry Award and her chapbook, Night Windows, won the YellowJacket Press contest for Florida poets. Her 2012 chapbook Satellite Beach is from Finishing Line Press.
Zach Linge is a Poetry PhD student with a BA in Literature from The University of Texas at Austin (2015) and an MA in Literature from The University of Texas at San Antonio (2017). He was awarded the 2017 Wendy Barker Creative Writing Award and the 2016 Keith Thomas Memorial Scholarship, and was a semi-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. Linge edited volumes XI & XII of Sagebrush Review, and has a scholarly article in [Inter]sections Journal and poetry in Nimrod International Journal, UnLost Journal, and Permafrost Magazine, among other publications.

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