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Donna J. Long’s poems have appeared most recently in Unbridled (an Anthology); Clockhouse, The Southern Review, Cooweescoowee, and Appalachian Heritage, as well as in the anthologies: The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III; Beloved on the Earth; and The Poets’ Guide to the Birds. She is Professor of English at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, WV, and Editor of Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art.
Brian Lysholm is an instructor at Daytona State College who formerly taught English at DeLand High School. While at DeLand, he oversaw the school’s student-run literary magazine, The Current. He has a passion for teaching literature and creative writing which comes through in his classes.


Holly Masturzo is a writer, artist, and Professor of Humanities & Women’s Studies at Florida State College. A recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the Houston Arts Alliance, her work has appeared in Third Mind: Creative Writing & Visual Art, The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing, and Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Jacksonville Dance Theatre.
Israel Matamoros, a senior at Deltona High School, is an editor for the student-run literary magazine, Howl. He’s involved in multiple extracurricular activities and he hopes to one day soon attend the University of Tampa for their forensics program. He believes the analytical skills he hones on Howl will help him in this field.
Richard Mathews is editor of Tampa Review and Director of the University of Tampa Press and the Tampa Book Arts Studio. His poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, and in a book, Numbery, and chapbook, a mummery. A fine letterpress printer since the 1970s, he founded Konglomerati Press where he published limited-edition handbound books and broadsides for more than a decade before returning to full-time teaching. He has received printing awards and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Arts Council, Southeast Libraries Association, Dayton Hudson Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, and others. He is Dana Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. 

Maureen McDole was born in St. Petersburg. She is a direct descendant of carnies, carpenters and fishermen. Her first book of poems, Exploring My Options, 2006, the first title from Summerfolk Press, which she founded with Gabriel Garling. Her second poetry book, Longing for the Deep End, was released in December 2011. She is the recipient of St. Petersburg Art Alliance’s 2016 MUSE Award for Literary Arts and the VP of Friends of the Mirror Lake Library. Maureen has been leading workshops and speaking about creativity for over fifteen years. She founded Keep St. Pete Lit because she believes wholeheartedly in the power of literature to change the world.
Phyllis McEwen is associated with Cave Canem, The Atlantic Center For the Arts, and Yellow Jacket Press. Her poetry is featured in Alice Walker: A Woman For Our Times by Deborah Plant, Praeger, 2017.
Ryan McIlvain's first novel, Elders (Hogarth/Random House), was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. His second novel, The Life and Death of Sam Westergard, will be published by the same press early next year. McIlvain's shorter fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, Post Road, The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other places. A former Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, he now teaches creative writing at the University of Tampa.  
M.B. McLatchey is a widely-published author and recipient of national literary awards, including the May Swenson Award for her recent book of poems, The Lame God (Utah State University Press). As Florida’s Poet Laureate for Volusia County, M.B. mentors young poets and frequently co-facilitates literary conferences. Her academic awards include the Harvard University Danforth Prize and the Radcliffe Prize for Literary Scholarship.  She teaches the Classics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. See:  www.mbmclatchey.com.
Peter Meinke is Poet Laureate of Florida.  His most recent books are Lucky Bones (poems, 2014)—his 8th book in the Pitt Poetry Series—The Expert Witness (stories, UT Press 2016), and To Start With, Feel Fortunate (a collection of his Poet’s Notebook columns that received the 2017 William Meredith Poetry Award). He’s given readings throughout America, including at the Library of Congress, as well as at universities in Europe and Africa.
Jesse Millner’s poems and prose have appeared in River Styx, Pearl, The Prose Poem Project, Gravel, Pithead Chapel, Wraparound South, The Best American Poetry 2013 and other literary magazines.  He has published seven poetry chapbooks, including My Grandfather Singing with YellowJacket Press and most recently, Noonday Duende with Kattiwompus Press, and two full-length collections, The Neighborhoods of My Past Sorrow (winner of bronze medal in 2010 Florida Book Awards) and Dispatches from the Department of Supernatural Explanation (Kitsune Books, 2012). He has been a writer in residence at Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain, Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming, and at the Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Jesse teaches writing courses at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.
Matthew J. Mobley serves on the board of YellowJacket Press. He is a former U.S. Army Infantry officer, Paratrooper, and Ranger with numerous combat tours. He currently works as a full-time poet, raconteur and gadabout. His poetry has appeared in O-Dark-Thirty, Bridge Eight and F(r)iction.
Donald Morrill’s debut novel Beaut won the Lee Smith Fiction Prize and is forthcoming in 2018. The author of three volumes of poetry, including Awaiting Your Impossibilities (2015 Florida Book Award), and four books of nonfiction, he teaches in the Low-Residency MFA at the University of Tampa.
Gloria Muñoz is the author of the chapbook Your Biome has Found You (Finishing Line Press, 2016). As a Colombian/American writer, she interested in exploring identity, spaces of the body, nature, and race. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Acentos Review, Sarah Lawrence Review, Forage Poetry, The Brooklyn Review, Entropy, and the Going Om anthology, among others. Her writing has also been honored by the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize, the Bettye Newman Poetry Award, the New York Summer Writer’s Institute Fellowship, USF Humanities Institute Poetry Award, and the Think Small to Think Big Artist Grant. Gloria holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of South Florida. She is a also a co-founder of Pitch Her Productions, an organization dedicated to women in the arts. Gloria teaches creative writing at Eckerd College, where she also serves as the faculty adviser for the Eckerd Review. 
Rhonda J. Nelson’s publications include Musical Chair (Anhinga Press 2004) and The Undertow, (Rattapallax Press 2001). She is a Florida Fellow in Poetry 2000-2001, winner of Writer's Exchange 2000, sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc., and the recipient of two Hillsborough County Emerging Artist grants and one Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant. She is the artistic director of the improvisational poetry music collective, Irritable Tribe of Poets, whose latest performance was of poems from her Frida Kahlo manuscript during the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Salvador Dali Museum. Her publications include work in Ekphrasis, Angel Face, Slipstream, The Panhandler, Survivor Magazine, Asheville Review, Apalachee Review, The Pedestal Magazine, The Dexter Review, New CollAge, and Sandhill Review, among others. She lives in Tampa, FL.
Thea Nicolaides serves on the board of YellowJacket Press.
Barbra Nightingale’s eighth book of Poetry, Alphalexia, was released this year by Finishing Line Press. Her other books include Two Voices, One Past (Yellow Jacket Press), and Geometry of Dreams (Word Tech Editions). Over 200 of her poems appear in national journals and anthologies. She is a Professor Emeritus from Broward College, and lives and plays in Hollywood, FL with her two and four legged menagerie.

 

Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and two collections of short stories:Neighbors of Nothing and Rabbit Punches. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, he was also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Million Writers Award.  His work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Mystery Stories,Oxford American, One Story, and McSweeney’s.


Amy Christine Parker is an ideal speaker for this food-themed Other Words event (Bananas Foster is her favorite dessert), Amy writes YA novels (Smash and Grab/2016 PRH) and she taught for six years before staying home to raise her own children. A three-book Penguin Random House (PRH) author, Amy Parker writes full-time from her home near Tampa, Florida, where she lives with her husband, their two daughters, and three very mischievous cats. 
April Blevins Pejic teaches at Nicholls State University. Her work has appeared in Arcadia Magazine, The Green Briar Review, Furious Season, Ellipsis, and the fiction anthology Monday Nights. Her essay, "A History We Can Live With" a notable selection in the Best American Essays 2015 edited by Ariel Levy. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, a contributing writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.

Brenda Peynado’s stories have won an O. Henry Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a Dana Award, a Fulbright Grant to the Dominican Republic, a Vermont Studio Center Residency, and other prizes. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, The Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. She received her MFA at Florida State University and her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She currently teaches at the University of Central Florida.
Craig Pittman is a native Floridian. Born in Pensacola, he graduated from Troy State University in Alabama, where his muckraking work for the student paper prompted an agitated dean to label him "the most destructive force on campus." Since then he has covered a variety of newspaper beats and quite a few natural disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires and the Legislature. Since 1998, he has covered environmental issues for Florida's largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. He is the author of four books: Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss; Manatee Insanity: Inside the War Over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species; The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid; and Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, which won a gold medal from the Florida Book Awards.
Dorothy M. Place is the author of The Heart to Kill, a literary fiction novel released by SFA Press (2016) as well as eleven short stories published in literary journals. Of those stores, three won prizes in short story contests and one a fellowship to a literary conference. She was a faculty member at the University of Pacific writers conference (June 2017) and will be a panelist at the Mendocino Writers Conference (August 2017.)
Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of the chapbooks Maria Sings (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press).  Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, and MiPOesias.  A graduate of NYU’s MFA program in Creative Writing-Poetry, Catherine is cofounder and co-curator of the SWWIM reading series.  She lives in Miami Beach with her husband, two sons, and daughter.
Wendy Rawlings is the author of The Agnostics and Come Back Irish. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction and the 2016 Pushcart Prize anthology.
Melissa Remark hails from a small Canadian town on the north shore of Lake Erie. She has called Toronto, Los Angeles, and Gold Coast, Australia home before settling in New Orleans where she teaches writing, literature, and film studies at Nicholls State University. A former editor at UNO’s Bayou Magazine, Melissa recently wrote and co-produced the short film Call Me Cappy, which premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2015 and has screened at film festivals around the globe. Currently, she is working on an historical fiction novel called Crow on the Table.
Katherine Riegel is the author of Letters to Colin Firth, What the Mouth Was Made For, and Castaway. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Brevity, The Offing, Orion, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is co-founder and poetry editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection, and she blogs with a collective of women writers at The Gloria Sirens. She lives in Memphis, TN with her husband, who is not Colin Firth but does have an English accent.
Jayme Ringleb is a recipient of scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat, and some of his poems appear recently or are forthcoming in jubilat, Gulf Coast, The Journal, At Length, The Adroit Journal, and Sixth Finch.
Delaney Rose has a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of South Florida and a Master’s in Information Science from Florida State University. Her short story, “Arsenic and Glass Eyes,” was published in the Scared Spitless Anthology, and her short story “The Opera Singer” was published in Voices in Italian Americana. She lives in Central Florida, where she works as a technical writer and academic researcher at Knowledge Accelerators.
Lisa Lanser Rose (aka. Elisabeth Rose) is the author of the memoir For the Love of a Dog (Harmony Books) and the novel, Body Sharers (Rutgers University Press), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. Recent work appears or will soon in Atticus Review, Voices in Italian Americana, and Condoms & Hot Tubs Don’t Mix: An Anthology of Sexcapades. Other publications and honors include The Briar Cliff Review Nonfiction Award, the The Florida Review Editor’s Award, finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, and a 2015 Best American Essay Notable Essay. She teaches creative writing at USF-Saint Pete, trains trick dogs, and blogs with awesome women at TheGloriaSirens.com.
Ann LaBar Russek is an award-winning poet. She has taught college and university level courses in creative writing for close to twenty years and has an M.F.A. in creative writing from University of Alaska. She has published poetry and nonfiction in national and regional publications.
Gianna Russo is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Moonflower (Kitsune Books, 2011), winner of a Florida Book Awards bronze medal, and two chapbooks, Blue Slumber (YellowJacket Press, 2006) and The Companion of Joy (Green Rabbit Press, 2014). Russo is founding editor of YellowJacket Press, currently Florida’s only publisher of poetry chapbook manuscripts. She has published poems inTampa Review, Ekphrasis, Crab Orchard Review, Apalachee Review, Florida Review, Florida Humanities Council Forum, Karamu, The Bloomsbury Review, The Sun, Poet Lore, saw palm, Kestrel, Water-Stone, The MacGuffin, and Calyx, among others. She is assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Saint Leo University, where she is editor-in-chief of Sandhill Review and director of the Sandhill Writers Retreat.  
Leslie Salas is a multimodal writer-poet-cartoonist whose work can be found in The Southeast Review, Rogue Agent, and more. She is the editor of the Other Orlandos Anthology (Burrow Press, 2017) and co-editor of Condoms & Hot Tubs Don’t Mix: An Anthology of Sexcapades (Beating Windward Press, 2018). She serves as the graphic nonfiction / poetry comics editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection and pays the bills by teaching English at an entertainment, arts, and media university. She blogs at TheGloriaSirens.com with several other fabulous women writers. Follow her (@leslie_learns) on Instagram for cute pictures of her kid and her day-to-day doings.
Cathy Salustri is the Arts & Entertainment editor at Creative Loafing, where she writes about art, culture and Florida lifestyles and history. Her portfolio includes USA Today, Visit Florida, regional magazines and local press. In late 2016, UPF published her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era driving tours of Florida, Backroads of Paradise, and the New York Times featured it in its travel section.
Alysia Sawchyn currently lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is a nonfiction editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Indiana Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She was recently awarded first place in Cutbank’s 2016 Flash Prose Contest.
JD Scott is the author of two chapbooks: Night Errands (Winner of the Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry—YellowJacket Press, 2012) and Funerals & Thrones (Birds of Lace Press, 2013). Recent and forthcoming publications include Best American Experimental Writing, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill, Sonora Review, The Pinch, Ninth Letter, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. Recent accolades include attending the Poetry Foundation's inaugural Poetry Incubator and being awarded a residency at the Millay Colony. JD lives in Tampa and can be found at jdscott.com.
Sean Sexton was born in Indian River County and grew up on his family's Treasure Hammock Ranch. He divides his time between taking care of a 600 acre cow-calf operation, painting, and writing. He is married to artist, Sharon Sexton, and they live on the ranch in a house they built with their hands. Sexton has kept daily journal-sketch and writing books since 1973. He received an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the State of Florida in 2000-2001. He is author of Blood Writing, Poems, Anhinga Press, 2009, The Empty Tomb, University of Alabama Slash Pine Press, 2014, and Waldo's Mountain, Waterview Press, 2001. He has performed and presented at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, Miami Book Fair International, O' Miami, and Other Words Florida Literary Arts Coalition Conference in St. Augustine, FL. On Sept 1, 2016, He became the inaugural Poet Laureate of Indian River County.
Enid Shomer is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon & Schuster), which NPR named one of the best novels of 2012.  A new poetry collection, Shoreless, won the Vachel Lindsay Prize and is forthcoming in 2018. Her poems and stories appear in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, etc.  In 2013 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council.
Jay Snodgrass is the author of two books of poems, Monster Zero (Elixir Press) and The Underflower (Cherry Grove Collections). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and Versal, as well as online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendancy, Oranges and Sardines, Ducky, Big Bridge, and others. He has a PhD in English from Florida State and is currently co-director of Anhinga Press.
Neil H. Spirtas was born in St. Louis, Mo. and raised in Belleville, Ill. He received his Master’s in Community Development from the University of Missouri. His work has appeared in The Roam, Poetica, Free Expressions, The Soul’s Bright Home, Current magazines and The Huffington Post. Lead Essay Contest Judge for the Consular Corps in Sarasota, Manatee; Retiring 30 year Senior V.P. –Manatee Chamber of Commerce; Currently he works in Employer Engagement with USF – Sarasota/Manatee.
Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology.
Kate Sullivan is a journalist, editor, and former publisher of the literary magazine WordSmitten Quarterly Journal (WSQJ), Kate created the national About the Books broadcast (NPR, BTR, SoundCloud) and interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, including Edward P. Jones (The Known World), Paul Harding (Tinkers), Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume) and Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge). Her favorite holiday dishes to cook for her husband and two cats include cherry crepes with whipped cream. Their cats, Dylan and Twain, have memorized the sound of a Reddi Whip can.  
Terry Ann Thaxton, 5th generation Floridian, is the author of 3 books of poetry: Getaway Girl, The Terrible Wife (2014 Florida Book Award, Bronze Medal), and Mud Song (2017 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize). She has published poetry and essays in national and international journals, and received The Missouri Review Editor’s Prize for Essay in 2012. Her book  Creative Writing in the Community: A Guide is based on her fifteen years of experience teaching poetry and storytelling to marginalized children, youth, and adults throughout central Florida. She is a professor of English at UCF and directs the MFA Program.
Jay Thompson is a writer and artist living in Tampa. A graduate of the University of South Florida's MFA program, she founded the live lit event, First Draft and the online lit magazine, weirderary.
Jane Varley’s poetry has been reprinted in the New York Times and in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” syndicated newspaper column. She is the author of the memoir recounting the 1997 Nebraska flood, Flood Stage and Rising (2005). The recipient of an individual artist grant from the Ohio Arts Council, Varley lives in Ohio, where she coordinates the creative writing program at Muskingum College.

Chondell C. Villines is an MFA candidate in fiction at The University of Tampa.  She is an Adjunct Instructor at St. Pete College and has an MA in English Literature from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.  She has been teaching for fifteen years.

Helen Pruitt Wallace taught poetry and nonfiction at Eckerd College, and serves as Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg. Her first collection of poems, Shimming the Glass House, won the Richard Snyder Prize for Poetry and a Florida Book Award. Her chapbook, Pink Streets, was published in October by Yellow Jacket Press. Helen earned her Ph.D. in English/ Creative Writing from Florida State University, and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. She’s a trustee of the Dali’ Museum where she hosts the Dali Poetry Series.

Patricia Waters was born and reared in Nashville, took her Ph.D. From the University of Tennessee. Anhinga Press published her two books of poetry: The Ordinary Sublime (2006) and Fallen Attitudes (2014). She is an assistant professor of English at Troy University and she lives in Athens, Tennessee.

Patti White was raised in the military; she has now lived in eleven states, some of them twice. She studied intergroup relations at the University of Kentucky, then moved to Colorado to do pre-sentence investigations for the Fourth Judicial District courts. She returned to school to study contemporary narrative and literary theory, and now teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Alabama, where she co-founded Slash Pine Press. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Iowa Review, River Styx, North American Review, Forklift Ohio, New Madrid, Slippery Elm, and Gulf Coast. Patti is currently at work on a novella with eight narrators, a tornado outbreak, the somewhat undead, and the mysterious disappearance of the State of Mississippi.

M. L. Williams is author of Other Medicines and coeditor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including most recently Western Humanities Review, Miramar, The Journal of Florida Studies, The Cortland Review, Stone, River, Sky, and Clash by Night. He co-emcees the Poetry Corner for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Valdosta State University.
Spencer Wise is a Visiting Lecturer at Florida State University. His debut novel, The Emperor of Shoes, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in North America and from No Exit Press in the UK.
Kevin (K.C.) Wolfe is a fiction writer, essayist and editor. His essays and short stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Sun, Prime Number, Joyland, Redivider, Under the Sun, Swink and other journals. Wolfe has worked as the associate nonfiction editor at The Journal, as a freelance journalist and as a managing editor in corporate publishing.
Lisa Zimmerman’s poetry and short stories have appeared in Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Poet Lore, Chattahoochee Review, and Cave Wall, among other journals. Her poetry books include How the Garden Looks from Here (2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award) and The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press). Her most recent collection is The Hours I Keep (Main Street Rag 2016). She’s an associate professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado.

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