Conference Schedule Thursday, Nov. 8th 6:00 pm Early Registration Flagler Room, Ponce Hall

7:30 pm Evening Reading: Florida Book Award WinnersFlagler Room, Ponce HallStephen Kampa and Enid Shomer

Friday, Nov. 9th 7:30 am Book fair set-up/Registration open

Coffee and donut table Ringhaver Student Center

8:30 am Greetings/WelcomeBook Fair

8:30 am-Dusk Write St. Augustine

Flagler College Campus and the City of St. AugustineSlash Pine Press and FLARE: The Flagler Review

Explore Florida's oldest city and enjoy St. Augustine's unique combination of spaces and places. Follow in the footsteps of literary legends Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Marjorie Kennan Rawlings. Write your way from Flagler College to Matanzas Bay. Paired with specific destinations on your journey, creative writing exercises will prompt you to take a different approach to tourism. A two-day event, your Write St. Augustine experience will start with the packet found at the registration table at Flagler College and

continue at your leisure. Work generated while touring the town will be collected and published online (with permission).

8:45-10:00 am Dark Journeys: Mapmaking and Mythmaking in Speculative FictionVirginia Room 234, Student CenterBrogan Sullivan, Alan Shaw, Riley Passmore

Speculative fiction, more than any other genre, relies on the idea of the journey. The trek may be physical or spiritual, but in nearly every case, the work of speculative fiction takes the reader through landscapes that are both distinctly novel and disturbingly familiar. Furthermore, no other genre invites its readers to build upon these landscapes as often or as comprehensively. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror call us not only to take the journey, but also to inhabit the territories our favorite authors create for us through their mythmaking.

Mania, Fear, and the New ‘Flâneur’Virginia Room 235, Student CenterKyle McKinney, Matthew Epperson, Ryan Bollenbach

This panel is interested in wandering narrators deeply invested in their personal experiences and encounters. We seek the manic flaneur: off the wall, paranoid, tripped out--those whose perspective allows a fresh look into small details and strange encounters. We wish to explore the wide-eyed witness, the babbling disaster survivor, the wanderer still clutching his bleeding hand after the bar fight. We believe this is the kind of narrator who has the

power to sanctify that which isutterly singular, and beguile the reader with the hyper-specific.

Editor’s RoundtableGamache Koger Theater, Student CenterJocelyn Bartkevicius, Richard Mathews, Richard Peabody, Michael Trammell, Dan Veach, Bob Kunzinger

Writing, travel, submissions, decisions, and more—from the editor's perspective.

10:15-11:30 am The Journeys We Take

Virginia Room 234, Student CenterAnne Wood Fuller, Linda Dennard, Barbara Wiedemann

Sometimes a journey into the heart can be just as revealing as a journey into the unknown, and sometimes a journey into the unknown is a journey into the heart. Participants will read original work.

Alternatives to the MFA

Virginia Room 235, Student CenterSohrab Homi Fracis, Stephen Kampa, Liz Robbins, Laura Lee Smith

An MFA is a solid route to a writing career, but it’s not the only route. A panel of publishing poets and writers discuss their different paths and explore ways to gain education and experience outside the workshop setting.

Sponsored Reading: YellowJacket Press

Gamache Koger Theater, Student Center

11:45-1:00 pm Fiction Workshop: Reading Like a

Writer(Registration fee required)Virginia Room 234, Student CenterMark Powell

This workshop will use a number of passages to examine what we can learn from published writers.

Non-Fiction Workshop: Everything I Write is True, But This Actually Happened(Registration fee required)Virginia Room 235, Student CenterBob Kunzinger

A workshop where we mix the reality of an event and the digression of what is and isn't true.

Poetry Workshop: Image/Image: Poetry and Visual Art(Registration fee required)Crisp Ellert Art MuseumTerri Witek

Poets will generate new work in Flagler College's Crisp-Ellert Museum (next door to the main conference building). Friday and Saturday workshops will be different experiences: each will feature separate poetry challenges, some suggested by workshop participants. Visual artists and photographers also welcome.

1:15-2:30 pm Journey Poetry

Virginia Room 235, Student Center

Rachel Fogarty-Oleson, Sandra Chávez Johnson, Michele Randall

This panel will address three main avenues of journey poems and/or journey poetry: the journey out (a journey via the poems of a foreign country); the journey home (poetry through a bicultural lens); and the journey-less (how poets can create the environment of another location/place without having actually been there).

Lust and Wander

Virginia Room 235, Student CenterJan Beatty, Celeste Gainey, Aaron Smith

How do we write poems that capture the places that speak to us? Three poets from East to West coast will read poems of place and speak of their personal iconography of movement. What determines which latitudes will engage the body in its drive to wander? What are the crossroads of desire and geography, and how do these crossroads find their way to the page?

Sponsored Reading: Eckerd ReviewGamache Koger Theater, Student Center

Scott Ward, Jon Chopan, Helen Wallace 2:30-3:45 pm Women on the Road: Their Lives

and TravelVirginia Room 234, Student CenterLinda Buckmaster, Jane Varley, Ruth Moon Kempher, Melanie Neale

We'll take a quick literary journey of women writers on the road from intrepid

Victorian ladies to women of the Beat generation to contemporary wanderers. Where does their writing fit into the general travel literary scene of their day? What has stayed the same and what has changed?

The Art of TravelVirginia Room 235, Student Center Sean Sexton, Michael Kemp, Carol Lynne Knight, Lawrence Hetrick, Patricia Waters

This panel will discuss the influences of travel upon their writing, art, and associations with one another. Of these Poets, Writers and Artists, each has combined different disciplines in their creative endeavors, traveled and connected with one another through correspondence, collaboration, and artistic contributions to handmade books circulating among them for the last four years. Presenting a discussion annually at the conference of how this friendship has affected their creativity has become in itself something this group has chosen to do together.

Sponsored Reading: Tampa Review EditorsGamache Koger Theater, Student CenterAudrey Colombe, Erica Dawson, Richard Mathews, Libba Winston

4:00-5:15 pm Other Words Creative Writing

Faculty ReadingGamache Koger Theater, Student

CenterMark Powell, Terri Witek, Bob Kunzinger

5:30 pm Book Fair and Registration Closes for

the Evening 6:00 pm Reception

Markland House 8:00 pm Other Words Festival Renga Reading

Flagler Room, Ponce Hall

Everyone who wants to can read something, but the piece (poetry or prose) should last no longer than a minute. If possible, stay within the broad conference theme of Wanderlust.

Saturday, Nov. 10th 7:30 am Book Fair Set-up/Registration Opens Coffee and donut table

Ringhaver Student Center

8:00-8:45 am FLAC Membership MeetingGamache Koger Theater, Student Center

On the agenda: Discussion of an upcoming election for FLAC officers and a slate of those running.  We will discuss the opportunities (and need!) for people to get involved with conference planning, grant writing, fundraising, the writers circuit, and other projects.  We hope that interested and dedicated folks will come, lured by the aromas of coffee and donuts! 

8:30 am-Dusk Write St. AugustineFlagler College Campus and the City of St. Augustine

Slash Pine Press and FLARE: The Flagler Review

Explore Florida's oldest city and enjoy St. Augustine's unique combination of spaces and places. Follow in the footsteps of literary legends Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Marjorie Kennan Rawlings. Write your way from Flagler College to Matanzas Bay. Paired with specific destinations on your journey, creative writing exercises will prompt you to take a different approach to tourism. A two-day event, your Write St. Augustine experience will start with the packet found at the registration table at Flagler College and continue at your leisure. Work generated while touring the town will be collected and published online (with permission).

8:45-10:00 am Home Sweet Home: How Region Influences FictionGamache Koger Theater, Student CenterZachary Lundgren, Ryan Cheng, Gloria Munoz, Matt Epperson

From the Beat poets of San Francisco, to Faulkner’s depiction of the Southern gothic, to Cormac McCarthy’s harsh and brutally gorgeous southwest, American literature is truly an amalgamation of unique and individual voices, representative not only of the self, but also of the regions where each writer calls home. This panel hosts a selection of writers, each hailing from and inspired by a unique region of the United States, who will discuss how their various regions have influenced and instigated their own writing, in both style and content. As disparate as our

writing may seem, there are still strings, no matter how thin or translucent, that keep us connected, and in this panel, we will attempt to shine a little light on this spider web of American prose and poetry.

Journeying Through the Fallow Mind: Transcending Writer’s Block at the Desk and in the ClassroomVirginia Room 234, Student Center Laura Valeri, Emma Bolden, Jared Yates Sexton

Citing works from writers, psychoanalysts, social scientists, and neuroscientists, this panel will explore the startling science behind creativity and writers block, showcase helpful pedagogies that enhance students’ creative flow, and discuss strategies for overcoming various forms of resistance common with writers at all stages of their career.

Creating Strong Female Characters in Science FictionVirginia Room 235, Student Center

Chris Berman

For too long these roles have been predominantly the province of males. Strong women characters can be drawn from historical accounts of the women combat pilots of the Red Air Force in WW2. Drawing from reality makes for convincing fictional protagonists.

Chapbook Stitching Workshop(Limited to 12 participants)Crisp Ellert Art Museum

Lucas Southworth, Patti White, Amber Brown, Laura Flowers, Will Gillette, Debra Logan, Judah Martin, Carlos Estrada

Interns from Slash Pine Press will lead a chapbook-stitching workshop. Participants will learn to fold and punch books and will also learn to stitch a chapbook. All materials will be provided. After completing the stitch, participants will leave with their own newly-stitched chapbook from Slash Pine Press.

10:15-11:30 am Imaginative Travel: Persona Poems

and Alternative VoicesVirginia Room 234, Student Center Lisa Zimmerman, Gaylord Brewer, Tania Rochelle, Marty Williams

In this panel, we'll explore crafting persona poems as a means to integrate culture, claim place, and avoid the superficiality of "tourist" poetry. We’ll discuss how to be successfully hijacked by another voice whether from reading fairy tales or historical texts, sitting on an airplane outside of Detroit, or walking through a museum of farm machinery. We'll talk specifics and share a few examples.

Retreat but Not Surrender: Getting Away to WriteVirginia Room 235, Student Center Carol Frost, Richard Frost, Susan Lilley, Ilyse Kusnetz

Thoreau went to the woods. Henry James preferred the “grand tour” of Europe. Annie Dillard recreated

nature’s beauty in a metal shed in her backyard, and Shelley wrote fiery poetry about England while chilling out in Italy. Female Victorian novelists were known to take refuge in their beds, metaphorical ships that sailed off the coast of daily family life. As veterans of all kinds of writing retreats, from formally protected artist colonies to make-your-own sojourns and holed-up hideaways, panelists will discuss the enduring challenge of finding times and places for doing the work of writing. Topics will include both the practical and esoteric issues involved in the concept of retreat. Sharing of experiences and ideas welcome. 47% Fiction Reading: College of Central FloridaGamache Koger Theater, Student CenterRon Cooper, Michael Gills, Eric Miles Williamson

11:45 am-1:00 pm Screen Workshop: Fiction from the

Bottom to the Top(Registration fee required)Virginia Room 234, Student CenterJeff Bens

This workshop will look at effective ways to write for the screen. We'll watch film clips, study scenes from celebrated screenplays and complete exercises to help get at how to make stories and characters believable, enjoyable and compelling. For all levels of writers.

Non-Fiction Workshop: Exploring the Malleability of the Essay Form(Registration fee required)

Virginia Room 235, Student CenterIra Sukrungruang

This seminar is dedicated to the amebic nature of the essay form. We will evaluate alternative ways of structuring an essay, create our own structures, and discuss how the essay form is a blueprint of our brains. We will also examine how an essayist creates order out of disorder and the close relationship the essay has to poetry.

Poetry Workshop: Image/Image: Poetry and Visual Art(Registration fee required)Crisp Ellert Art MuseumTerri Witek

Poets will generate new work in Flagler College's Crisp-Ellert Museum (next door to the main conference building). Friday and Saturday workshops will be different experiences: each will feature separate poetry challenges, some suggested by workshop participants. Visual artists and photographers also welcome.

Fiction Workshop: Reading Like a Writer(Registration fee required)Room 214, Student CenterMark Powell

This workshop will use a number of passages to examine what we can learn from published writers.

1:15-2:30 pm The Poetics of Travel

Virginia Room 234, Student Center

Glenn Freeman, Lucas Southworth, Patricia Waters, Patti White

Poets and fiction writers will interweave creative work with insights on the relation of travel/place/liminal spaces to their creative process and the situating of voice.

Your Book Just Came Out. Now What?Virginia Room 235, Student Center Enid Shomer, Rhonda Riley, Ira Sukrungruang, Rosalynde Vas Dias,Mary Jane Ryals

What happens after your book is accepted? Panelists will discuss their post-acceptance experiences (with a variety of presses), including the editorial process and revisions, book production, illustrations, cover art, galleys, publisher warehouses, independent bookstores, and readings.

Sponsored Reading: Atlanta Review Gamache Koger Theater, Student CenterDan Veach, Travis Wayne Denton, Ilyse Kusnetz, Gaylord Brewer

2:45-4:00 pm Culture Shock: The Writer Abroad

Virginia Room 234, Student Center Christine M. Lasek, Katherine Riegel, Jenni Nance, Gloria Muñoz

We are the sum of our surroundings. In defining ourselves, it is impossible to escape our clothing, our customs, who our friends are and our language--that is, until we travel abroad. In foreign countries, these skins of culture, custom

and language are peeled away. Surrounded by people that dress differently than us, eat different foods, and wear different clothing, we are faced with the prospect of truly understanding ourselves at our core. This is what it means to experience culture shock. This panel will explore this concept of “culture shock”-- terrifying, confusing, frustrating (especially for a writer faced with a language barrier), but also freeing. Even when not the subjects of memoirs, these experiences abroad can and do seep into the prose and poetry of writers. Each panel member will discuss their own journeys and their aftereffects.

To Move or Stay Put: The Importance of Place in PoemsVirginia Room 234, Student CenterKatie Chaple, Travis Wayne Denton, Nick Norwood

No Matter Where You Go, There You Are. It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of place in poetry, whether the place in question is one the poet has been desperately hoping to escape or one the poet never wants to leave—literally figuratively, or both. The panelists will examine the importance of place in poems—their own as well as in the work of others, focusing on how place both informs and influences content and craft.

Sponsored Reading: Anhinga PressGamache Koger Theater, Student CenterRosalynde Vas Dias, Ken Hart, Lola Haskins

4:00-5:15 pm Other Words Faculty Reading

Gamache Koger Theater, Student Center

Jeff Bens, Ira Sukrungruang 5:30 pm Book Fair and Registration closes 8:00 pm Evening Reading

Flagler Room, Ponce Hall Kelle Groom and Bob Shacochis

Sunday, Nov. 11th

11:00 am-3:00 pm Advanced Fiction Workshop: Getting It On the Page(Registration fee required)Virginia Room 234, Student CenterMark Powell

This workshop will focus on the process of moving from an initial idea to a solid (if not final) draft. We will examine a number of passages by published writers.

Advanced Non-Fiction Workshop: Balancing Scene and Exposition(Registration fee required)Virginia Room 235, Student CenterIra Sukrungruang

In this workshop session writers will explore the nature and balance of scene and exposition in their nonfiction and investigate other structures besides chronology. Though scene is used in fiction, how one approaches scene and dialogue is different when dealing with real life events. Students will write and

share their work with the workshop group.

Advanced Poetry Workshop: Site-Specific St. Augustine(Registration fee required)Crisp Ellert Art Museum Terri Witek

After an introductory exercise, Sunday poets will become flaneurs and flaneuses, wandering the city with a series of prompts designed to generate new work. Intervals inside and out, with a rain plan.

Other Words Conference Participants

Jocelyn Bartkevicius is editor of The Florida Review and director of the MFA Program in creative writing at the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Missouri Review, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, The Hudson Review, and has received the Annie Dillard Award in the Essay and other prizes.

Jan Beatty is the author of The Switching Yard, Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River, winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She hosts and produces Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate 90.5-FM featuring the work of national writers. Beatty worked as a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, in maximum security prisons, and as a waitress for fifteen years. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops and teaches in the MFA program.

Jeff Bens directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Manhattanville College. He is author of the novel Albert, Himself and director of the documentary film, Fatman's. His short fiction and essays are published widely. Jeff has served on film festival juries around the world including the 2011 Slamdance feature film jury. He was a founding faculty of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Chris Berman grew up indulging in the reading of science fiction books and while recuperating after a bicycle accident, gained an opportunity to create one of his own. His first novel, The Hive, was released in 2009, followed by Red Moon (2010) and Star Pirates (2011). A new novel, Das Bell, is under review by Baen Books. Berman’s background in astronomy and spaceflight strengthened his work ,while he took major leaps in creativity between each book he has written. Chris’s writing defies a set style in creating novels of hard science fiction, techno-thrillers, and alternate history; with each work of fiction, a unique literary adventure. His most recent accomplishments were receiving a Masters Degree in Military History from Norwich University and completing his thesis on women combat pilots of the Soviet Red Air Force in WWII. Two new novels will be released in early 2013: Ace of Aces, a tale of five WWII combat aces conscripted out of the timeline to battle an alien menace 340 years in the future, and Condosaur, a science

fiction-horror tale of prehistoric predators on the loose in South Florida. www.freewebs.com/chrisbfla/

Emma Bolden’s first full-length collection of poems, Malificae, is forthcoming from GenPop Books. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry: How to Recognize a Lady (Toadlily Press), The Mariner’s Wife (Finishing Line Press), and The Sad Epistles (Dancing Girl Press). She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University.

Ryan Bollenbach is a poet and musician living just south of Tampa, Florida. His creative work can be read in Prick of the Spindle, and his editorial work can be read at www.sweetlit.com. He is hoping to enter into an MFA program for poetry in 2013.

Gaylord Brewer is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Give Over, Graymalkin (Red Hen Press, 2011) and The Martini Diet (Dream Horse Press, 2008). He teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where he edits the journal Poems & Plays.

Amber Brown is a junior in NEW College at the University of Alabama with a depth studies in creative writing and literature. She plans to go on to graduate school to earn an MFA in Creative Writing and then pursue a doctoral degree in Literature. She hopes one day to be an English professor.

Linda Buckmaster left her childhood Florida home in 1969 and took to the road, ending up in midcoast Maine where she's been for over three decades. Former Poet Laureate of her small town of Belfast, her poetry, essay, fiction, and journalism have appeared in regional and national journals. She travels whenever she can, including an annual trip to Mexico. She is currently working on a collection of essays about growing up in Space Coast Florida. Her personal blog can be accessed at lsbuck1.blogspot.com.

Rick Campbell’s books of poetry include Dixmont, The Traveler’s Companion, Setting The World In Order (which won the Walt McDonald Prize) and A Day’s Work. His poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, The Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, Kestrel, New Madrid and elsewhere. He has won an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and two fellowships from the Florida Arts

Council. He is the director of Anhinga Press, and teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Katie Chaple is the author of Pretty Little Rooms (Press 53, August 2011). She teaches poetry and writing at the University of West Georgia and edits Terminus Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Antioch Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review, Washington Square, among others.

Ryan Cheng is currently enrolled in the MFA program in Creative Writing for poetry at the University of South Florida. He has lived in a couple different states and has since found out that he prefers landscapes with mountains and hills. He also does not do well in humidity. Kind of like a pug.

Jon Chopan, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Eckerd College, is a fiction and non-fiction writer.  His first collection, Pulled from the River, published by Black Lawrence Press in 2012, is a collection of stories set in Rochester, New York and narrated by characters raised on loss yet filled with hope and insight, grace and grit. Against a backdrop of alcohol, suicide, camaraderie, and hockey, Chopan explores the distance between the city’s greatness and its failures, between place and identity, between who we are and who we hope to be.  His fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as Glimmer Train, Post Road, Redivider, Hobart, and Hotel Amerika.    

Audrey Colombe, born and raised in Oakland, California, has lived and taught in Oregon, New York, Texas, and Florida. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals including Los Angeles Review, Portland Review, Alaska Quarterly, and Puerto Del Sol. She is Fiction Editor of Tampa Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Tampa.

Ron Cooper is the author of the novels Purple Jesus and Hume’s Fork (both from Bancroft Press) as well as another now in circulation tentatively entitled The Gospel of the Twin. His short stories have appeared in journals such as Yalobusha Review, Apostrophe, and Timber Creek Review. His philosophical works include Heidegger and Whitehead: A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience (Ohio University Press) and a number of boring essays in arid academic journals. A South Carolina native, Cooper teaches at the College of Central Florida.

Erica Dawson’s collection, Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser), won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Poetry 2008 and 2012, and other journals and anthologies. She is an assistant professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa.

Linda Dennard is a novelist and poet living in Letohatchee Al. In the past, she has been shortlisted for the James Joyce Writing Award in Ireland and also received an EU Capitol of Culture award for her play on Irish immigration. She lived in Ireland and Europe for some time before coming to the South. Her day job is as a professor of International Relations.

Travis Wayne Denton lives in Atlanta where he is the Associate Director of Poetry @ TECH as well as a McEver Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech. He is founding editor of the literary arts publication, Terminus Magazine. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies. His second full-length collection of poems, When Pianos Fall from the Sky, was recently published by Marick Press.

Matthew Epperson graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing at the University of South Florida. He was the membership and volunteer coordinator at the last GCACWT Conference in Fairhope, AL. and looks for all opportunities to be involved in the writing community. He is the general manager of a restaurant in Tampa and is currently working on a collection of essays and a novel. He plans to apply to MFA programs this year.

Carlos Estrada is a senior majoring in New College at the University of Alabama, with a depth study in film production and film history. He is currently working on two short movie scripts. He plans to spread his love of cinema in any way he can upon graduating.

Glenn Freeman is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College in Iowa. He has published two collections of poetry, Keeping the Tigers Behind Us and Traveling Light and a chapbook, Fading Proofs. He has published poems in journals such as Poetry, Zone 3, The Lullwater Review, The Cimarron Review and others. He has degrees from the University of Florida, Vermont College, and Goddard College.

Laura Flowers is a senior majoring in English at the University of Alabama. This is her second semester interning for Slash Pine Press. She was the recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Best Overall Creative Writing Award for her short story “I Go Right and You Go Left.” She hopes to get her MFA in prose and work in the publishing industry. In her spare time, she enjoys playing fetch with her cat and biking.

Rachel Fogarty-Oleson has been supported by the Hampton Arts Management Micro-Grant and was the 2010 recipient of the Thomas E. Sanders Scholarship in Creative Writing Award. She serves on the editorial board of YellowJacket Press. Her poems and new media poetic pieces have appeared in numerous journals and presses, such as OVS Magazine, Psychic Meatloaf, White Space Poetry Anthology, and espresso ink.

Sohrab Homi Fracis's first master's was in civil engineering, an MCE from the University of Delaware. His second was an MA in English with an emphasis in creative writing, from the University of North Florida. His book, TICKET TO MINTO: Stories of India and America, is the first by an Asian to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award, juried by the Iowa Writers' Workshop. It was also released in India and translated into German. He received the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction and the Walter E. Dakin Fiction Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He is on the fiction faculty of the University of North Florida Writers' Conference and was Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College. A recent novel-excerpt in New York's Slice Magazine was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has twice been invited to work on his fiction as an artist in residence at Yaddo.

Carol Frost’s collections of poetry include Pure, Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems, I Will Say Beauty, and The Queen’s Desertion. Her 2010 collection, Honeycomb, was the recipient of the Gold Medal in Poetry from the Florida Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in four Pushcart Prize anthologies, in The New Anthology of American Poetry, volume 3: Postmodernisms, 1950 to the Present, in Contemporary American Poetry; and in recent anthologies published by PEN and by The Academy of American Poetry. She teaches at Rollins College. Richard Frost publications include The Circus Villains (poems), Getting Drunk with the Birds (poems), Jazz for Kirby (long poem as chapbook, illustrated by Donald Justice), The Family Way (chapbook), and, in 1996, Neighbor Blood (poems), The Plight of the Cat (poems), is in

manuscript. He has been a contributor of poetry, essays, and fiction to The American Scholar, Antioch Review, Arizona Quarterly, California Quarterly.

Ann Wood Fuller graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in English Literature. She did her postgraduate work in the Creative Writing Department under the guidance of William Logan and Debora Greger. She has published her work in The Cumberland Poetry Review, Departure, The Yalobusha Review, The South Dakota Literary Project, and The Calabash Review. She attended the 15th annual Creative Writer's Conference entitled "Representing Place" at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff where she read and discussed the influence of landscape and place in her work. She lives in a home she built in the woods of Micanopy, Florida.

Celeste Gainey holds a B.F.A. in Film and Television from New York University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Carlow University. Her chapbook, In the Land of Speculation and Seismography, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2011. The first female gaffer to be admitted to The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, (I.AT.S.E.), the film industry’s premier craft union, Gainey eventually became an architectural lighting designer, designing the lighting for many well-known venues both here and abroad. Many of Gainey’s poems focus on her experience of her homeland, California.

Will Gillette is a June bug majoring in Ink Disposal. After college, he plans to move to Los Angeles, Chicago, or Hawaii to pursue a career as a world-famous rapper. For the time being, getting published is not something he worries all that much about. He will just keep on writing and getting better at it until he’s confident his poetry saunters on up and effs the ineffable right in the bung hole. Only then will he attempt to gain recognition as a more wind-washed literarian. Amen.

Michael Gills' first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by U. of Nevada Press/2002. It won a Utah Book Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A novel, Go Love, came out in Fall 2011 from Raw Dog Screaming Press. A second collection, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, was published by Texas Review Press in February 2012, the title story of which won Southern Humanities Review's Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. A third collection of stories, Eternally Yours, is currently on the market, with stories appearing in Boulevard, Texas Review, New Madrid and

elsewhere. Gills is currently the Distinguished Honors Professor of Writing at the University of Utah.

Kelle Groom is currently completing a national tour in connection with her memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Free Press/Simon & Schuster 2011; paperback 2012), which is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, a Library Journal Best Memoir of 2011, a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month, Oprah.com O Magazine selection, and an Oxford American Editor's Pick. Her poetry collections are Five Kingdoms (Anhinga Press 2010), Luckily (Anhinga 2006), and Underwater City (University Press of Florida 2004). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2010, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among others, She is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence (2012-2013) in the Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, where she is also on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program. Former poetry editor of The Florida Review, she is now a contributing editor.

Kenneth Hart's book, Uh Oh Time was selected by Mark Jarman as winner of the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. He teaches writing at New York University.

Lola Haskins taught Computer Science at the University of Florida for many years, and is currently (since 2006) on the faculty of Rainier Writers Workshop, a low residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is the owner of a split heart, being passionate about both Florida and North Yorkshire. Most of the time, she lives in Gainesville, FL. Her most recent Anhinga Press book, The Grace to Leave (2012), was selected as one of the titles in the Van K. Brock Florida Poetry Series.

Lawrence Hetrick has recently published poems in Aethlon, Alabama Literary Review, and Poems and Plays. His poems in the Summer 2011 issue of Valley Voices are part of a representation of Southern poets chosen by Claude Wilkinson. His new book of poems, Derelict Tributaries, is due from Anhinga Press in January, 2012. He currently teaches at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta, where he works with The Chattahoochee Review as Emeritus Editor.

Sandra Chávez Johnson has served as Managing Editor and Production Manager for SPECS Journal out of Rollins College. She is a reader and

writer of poems and is currently working toward her MFA at New England College.

Stephen Kampa has published poetry, critical prose, and reviews in journals such as The Southwest Review, Tampa Review, The Hopkins Review, Subtropics, Poetry Northwest, The Sewanee Theological Review, and River Styx. He is the winner of the 2011 River Styx International Poetry Contest, and his first book, Cracks in the Invisible, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and a Florida Book Awards' Gold Medal in poetry. He is also the recipient of this year's Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest. He holds degrees from Carleton College (BA) and the Johns Hopkins University (MFA) and has worked as a teacher and a musician.

Michael Kemp moved to Florida in 1955 from his birthplace in the remote Adironack Mountains. A travel year in Europe turned his attention decidedly to art, and he returned for a degree in painting and printmaking under Hiram Williams and Kenneth Kerslake. During his subsequent career as a rural librarian in Micanopy, Florida, he earned an MFA Summa cum Laude in printmaking with Kerslake. Since retiring from the Alachua County library system, in 2005, he established Harmless Pleasures Printmaking, a semi-public studio in McIntosh, Florida, where he continues to print his own work and assist clients in printmaking projects. His works is represented by Hector Fine Art Gallery (Gainesville), Ice House Gallery (McIntosh) and 53 Cannon Galleries (Charleston). He lives in a hardwoods hammock between Micanopy and McIntosh with his wife, a dog, and three horses. The emphasis of his prints has always been on rendering nature and everyday experience in a modernist context using ancient, direct methods.

Ruth Moon Kempher, an ex-navy brat who was born in Red Bank, NJ, has had her poetry and short prose appear in journals and other periodical publications since 1958, and has published many other people's work through her Kings Estate Press, in St. Augustine, Florida, since 1994. She is retired from owning a Tavern, and from teaching— first for Flagler College while attaining her BA, and graduating with the college's first class; and later, after achieving her MA at Emory University in Atlanta, in the English Department of St. Johns River Community College. The latest of her thirty-three (mostly small) collections of verse will also include prose pieces— Key West Papers, is due from Casa de Cinco Hermanos Press, Pueblo, CO, in late 2012 or early 2013. After years of living at the beach, she now lives in the woods in an old cracker

house, with two dogs, Sadie, a long-legged hound, and Mister Frost, an emotional American Husky.

Carol Lynne Knight C. L. Knight is the associate director of Anhinga Press, where she designs covers and text, and edits books. She is the co-editor of Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets. Her first book of poetry, Quantum Entanglement, was published by Apalachee Press in 2010. Her poetry has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Tar River Review, Poetry Motel, Earth’s Daughters, The Ledge, Slipstream, Broome Review, J, Comstock Review, Northwest Florida Review, Epicenter, Redactions, Iconoclast, Epicenter, HazMat, So to Speak and in the anthologies Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press), Touched by Eros (Live Poets Society), The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press), Beloved on the Earth, (Holy Cow! Press), and North of Wakulla (Anhinga Press). She is a winner of the Penumbra Poetry Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Bob Kunzinger is the author of five collections of essays, including the forthcoming Borderline Crazy (Nov 2012). He is a repeat offender for such diverse publications as Southern Humanities Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as many other regional and national reviews, and his work has been noted in Best American Essays. He is a professor of humanities and creative writing in Virginia.

Ilyse Kusnetz teaches English and Creative Writing at Valencia College. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she appears in Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, and Crazyhorse.

Christine M. Lasek is a fiction writer living in Tampa. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of South Florida. She is also the managing editor of Saw Palm, USF’s regional literary magazine. Prior to attending graduate school, Christine worked as an online news editor and public relations officer for media and nonprofit outlets in Detroit. Her fiction has appeared in Pearl Literary Magazine and The Bear River Review. When not writing, she enjoys recreating her Nonna’s recipes from memory and purchasing bits of 1960s nostalgia from off the internet.

Susan Lilley’s work has recently appeared in Poet Lore, The Southern Review, Drunken Boat, Sweet, The Apalachee Review, Passager, New Madrid, The Florida Review, and Tiger Tail, among other journals. 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 new chapbook, Satellite Beach, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She teaches literature and writing at Trinity Preparatory School and is an adjunct professor at Rollins College in central Florida.

Debra Logan is a junior at the University of Alabama and in the English Honors Program. She is planning to attend law school with the ultimate goal of becoming a juvenile court judge and a legal fiction writer. She is happily married and the proud mother of three children.

Zachary Lundgren is a MFA student in poetry at the University of South Florida. He received his BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and grew up in northern Virginia. He has had poetry published in several literary journals and magazines including The Stray Branch, The Tule Review, Barnwood International Poetry Magazine, the University of Colorado Honors Journal, and was nominated for the 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award. He received the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize in 2012, and serves as a poetry editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection.

Judah Martin is a sophomore majoring in Public Relations at the University of Alabama. “The Waitress” is Judah’s first published work. Judah hopes to practice PR after graduation but plans to continue his creative writing as well.

Richard Mathews is editor of Tampa Review, director of the University of Tampa Press, and Charles A. Dana Professor of English at the University of Tampa. He is the author of several books about science fiction and fantasy, and his poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Louisville Review, and A Geography of Poets. His two collections of poetry are A Mummery (Konglomerati, 1975) and Numbery (Borgo, 1995).

Kyle McKinney is an unknown and unpublished career student who occasionally says the right thing. He instructed a USF Honors College poetry course as an undergraduate and is involved in several local workshops. He restores and digitizes historical documents with FCIT and is currently working on a collection of poems and a novel.

Gloria Muñoz is a poet, writer, translator and editor living in St. Petersburg. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and is

currently pursuing her MFA at the University of South Florida. She is the recipient of the Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Prize, the Bettye Newman Poetry Award, the New York Summer Writer's Institute Fellowship, and the Think Small to Think Big Artist Grant awarded by Hampton Arts Management. Her work has appeared in Dark Phrases, The Brooklyn Review, The Sarah Lawrence Review, The Sadie Lou Standard, The Clever Title Book Review and Sweet: A Literary Confection. Gloria is the co-host of the 6X6 Tampa Bay reading series. When she is not writing, translating, or reading, Gloria enjoys teaching yoga, vegetarian cooking, binding books, running, and collecting oral histories.

Jenni Nance is a creative writer and English educator living in Ozona, Florida. She holds her BA (and future MFA) from the University of South Florida. She is the recipient of The Knocky Parker Creative Nonfiction Award (judged by Dinty Moore) and has been three times awarded The Poynter Institute’s Summer Writer’s Camp fellowship. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Mother, The Third Street Journal, and Sweet: A Literary Confection—with a forthcoming publication of her fiction in Necessary Fiction. She is a nonfiction editor for Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art and also teaches writing at USF, The Dunedin Fine Arts Center and with Pinellas County Schools. She is a fifth generation Florida native, an avid fisherwoman, and a motorcycle enthusiast. She is the proud (and oftentimes dumbfounded) mother of two teenage sons.

Melanie Neale grew up living aboard a 47’ sailboat with her parents and her sister. The family traveled the US East Coast and the Bahamas from the mid 1980’s to the end of the 1990’s, and both daughters were home-schooled until they went to college. Melanie began writing poetry and short stories when she was a young child, and she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Eckerd College in 2002 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Florida International University in 2006. She lived aboard her own 28’ sailboat while in graduate school in Miami. She has taught college, captained and crewed on boats, detailed boats, worked in a bait shop, worked in marketing, and currently works as the Director of Career Services for a private art college in northern Florida, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Melanie has published fiction, poetry and nonfiction in many literary journals and magazines, including Soundings, Seaworthy, Southwinds, GulfStream, Latitudes & Attitudes, The Miami Herald’s Tropical Life Magazine, Balancing the Tides, The Georgetown Review, RumBum.com, and Florida Humanities. She is also a recipient of several

awards for her writing. Her “Short Story” column appeared bimonthly in Cruising World Magazine from 2006 to 2009. Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love, and Fiberglass is her first book.

Nick Norwood is the author of Gravel and Hawk (Ohio University Press, 2012), winner of the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry, as well as two other collections, A Palace for the Heart (Mellen, 2004) and The Soft Blare (River City, 2003), and the limited-edition book Wrestle (eating dog press, 2007), which he produced in collaboration with the artist Erika Adams. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Southwestern American Literature, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and in many other journals and anthologies. He lives in Georgia.

Riley Passmore is a first year MFA student in the University of South Florida's Creative Writing program, and a lifelong fan of all things speculative. His favorite authors include Margaret Atwood, HP Lovecraft, and Jeremy Robert Johnson. He lives in Tampa.

Richard Peabody is the founder and co-editor of Gargoyle Magazine and editor (or co-editor) of 21 anthologies including Mondo Barbie, Conversations with Gore Vidal, and A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation. The author of a novella, two short story collections, and six poetry books, he is also a native Washingtonian. Peabody teaches fiction writing at Johns Hopkins University. He has two new books just out--a book of poetry Speed Enforced by Aircraft (Broadkill River Press) and a book of short stories Blue Suburban Skies (Main Street Rag Press).

Blake Posey is a junior at the University of Alabama. He plans on receiving his degree in English with a minor in Creative Writing. He is a prose poet that aspires to one day have his work published. Future plans include teaching English as a second language as well as attending graduate school to possibly further his study of the arts.

Mark Powell is the author of the novels Blood Kin, which received the Peter Taylor Prize, and Prodigals, both published by the University of Tennessee Press, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. He was educated at The Citadel, The University of South Carolina, and Yale Divinity School. He teaches in the English Department at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

Michele Randall holds an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Central Florida and is a recent graduate of New England College’s MFA program. She currently teaches at the University of Central Florida, writes poetry and fiction, and is working on her first full length book of poetry.

Katherine Riegel's first book of poetry is Castaway (FutureCycle Press, 2010). Her second book of poetry, What the Mouth Was Made For, is forthcoming in 2013 from FutureCycle Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Crazyhorse, The Cream City Review, and Terrain.org. She is poetry editor and co-founder of the online literary magazine Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com). She teaches at the University of South Florida and lives near Tampa. Her website is www.katherineriegel.com.

Rhonda Riley has resided in Florida since she was a small child, except for brief periods living in California, Dublin, and Utrecht. She graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in English, a few published poems, and plans to continue writing. She completed her MFA in fiction writing at the University of Florida in 1992. After several of life’s standard upheavals and a long hiatus from writing, Rhonda completed her first novel. The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope will be published by Ecco Publishing in April of 2013. The subtropical landscape of Florida is a primary character of Rhonda’s upcoming novel. Much of her writing has centered on the quirky, confounding generosities of her home state. She resides in Gainesville, Florida.

Liz Robbins' second full collection, Play Button, won the 2010 Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her chapbook, Girls Turned Like Dials, won the 2012 YellowJacket Press Prize and is out this month. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, and are in the current or forthcoming issues of Hayden's Ferry Review, The Journal, and New York Quarterly. Her first book, Hope, as the World is a Scorpion Fish (Backwaters P), was published in 2008. She received her Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State U., and she's an associate professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.

Tania Rochelle is a poetry editor for The Chattahoochee Review. She has taught creative writing for 12 years at Portfolio Center, in Atlanta,

and lives with her family in Marietta, Georgia. Her books are Karaoke Funeral and The World's Last Bone, both published by Snake Nation Press.

Mary Jane Ryals is Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida. She's won awards in poetry, short story and the novel, including the YellowJacket Press Chapbook contest (Music in Arabic) and the Florida Book Awards in General Fiction (Cookie & Me). She's always writing poetry, and she's currently working on an environmental mystery novel set on the Gulf coast of Florida.

Jared Yates Sexton is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University and serves as Managing Editor at BULL. His work has appeared in publications around the country and has been nominated for a Pushcart, The Million Writer's Award, and was a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize. His first collection of stories, An End to All Things, will be released by Atticus Books in November of this year.

Sean Sexton was born in Indian River County and grew up on his family's Treasure Hammock Ranch, eight miles west of Vero Beach, Florida. He divides his time between taking care of a 700 acre cow-calf and seedstock cattle operation and painting and writing. He is married to artist Sharon Sexton, and they live on a homestead on the ranch in a house they built with their hands. He has kept journal-sketch books drawn from his life since 1973 and was awarded an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the State of Florida in 2000-2001. He is the author of Waldo’s Mountain: Brief History of a Small Elevation, (Waterview Press, 2001) about his grandfather, Waldo Sexton and Blood Writing, Poems, (Anhinga Press, 2009). He received a Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowship in 2000—2001 and was invited to attend and read his poetry at the 2011 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

Bob Shacochis, acclaimed for both his fiction and nonfiction, is well-known for writing about travel in both. His new novel, set on several continents, is The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, scheduled for publication this year by Grove/Atlantic. His first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands, won the National Book Award for First Fiction in 1985, and his second collection, The Next New World, was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. He is a former columnist for Gentleman’s Quarterly and a contributing editor for both Outside and Harper’s. A collection of his columns for GQ, Domesticity:

A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love, was published by Scribner in 1994. Swimming in the Volcano, the first book in a projected trilogy, was a 1993 National Book Award Finalist. The Immaculate Invasion, a chronicle of the 1994 military intervention in Haiti, was a finalist for The New Yorker Magazine Award for best nonfiction of 1999. He has also received a James Michener Fellowship and a grant from the NEA. He is Writer-in-Residence at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Alan Shaw is a third year MFA student in the Creative Writing program at The University of South Florida. When he’s not working on his thesis, a memoir of being raised in the Mormon Church and the years he later spent in a Florida state prison, he serves as the managing editor for The Tripod Cat, an audio-only literary journal. His work has appeared online, upcoming in Scissors and Spackle, in the journal Sweet: A Literary Confection, and in the forthcoming yoga anthology Going Om. He can be found online at thetripodcat.com.

Enid Shomer's first novel, The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, will be published in August 2012 from Simon & Schuster. Her first collection of stories, Imaginary Men, won the Iowa Fiction Prize and the LSU/Southern Review Prize. Her second collection, Tourist Season won the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal and was also chosen for Barnes and Noble's "Discover Great New Writers" series. She is also the author of four books of poetry and edits the poetry series at the University of Arkansas Press. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Paris Review, Boulevard, etc. and in more than sixty anthologies. She lives in Tampa.

Aaron Smith is the author of the poetry collection, Appetite, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2012, and Blue on Blue Ground, winner the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is the author of two chapbooks, What's Required, winner of the Frank O'Hara Award, and Men in Groups, published by New Sins Press. He is the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Writers' Grant and a 2007 New York State Arts Grant. He is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Laura Lee Smith’s first novel, Heart of Palm, will be released by Grove Atlantic in 2013. Her short fiction was selected by guest editor Amy Hempel for inclusion in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2010. Her work has also appeared in The Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Bayou and other journals. She teaches creative writing at Flagler

College and works as an advertising copywriter. She received her MA in English from the University of North Florida.

Lucas Southworth's fiction has recently appeared in Mid-American Review, West Branch, PANK, The Collagist, Willow Springs, and others. His collection of stories was selected as the 2012 winner of the Grace Paley Award in the AWP Award Series and will be released by University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. Currently, he is a co-partner and editor at Slash Pine Press, and an instructor in the English Department of the University of Alabama.

Ira Sukrungruang is author of the memoir Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and the co-editor of What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He has published his essays, poems, and short stories in many literary journals and anthologies, including Creative Nonfiction, The Bellingham Review, North American Review, Isotope, Crab Orchard Review, Post Road, and Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing. He teaches at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Brogan Sullivan is a second year MFA student in the University of South Florida’s Creative Writing program. Originally from Miami, he relocated to Tampa, ostensibly to escape the giant cockroaches. His short story, “The Return,” received Honorable Mention in the 2009 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Context, and another story, “The Idea Thieves,” is forthcoming in the journal First Inkling.

Michael Trammell edits the Apalachee Review. His work has been in New Letters, Lullwater Review, and Pleiades. He won the 2008 YellowJacket Chapbook Contest for Our Keen Blue House. He works at Florida State University, where he teaches professional writing, and in the summers he teaches for F.S.U.'s Study Abroad program.

Laura Valeri is the authors of two award winning story collections, The Kind of Things Saints Do (U of Iowa Press) and Safe in Your Head (Stephen F. Austin University Press). She’s published in numerous journals, magazines and ezines, was the recipient of a Sewanee Fellowship in Fiction, and won many honors for her fiction including first prize for the Iowa Fiction Award and the John Gardner Award, Gilmmer Train’s Family Matters, and honorable mentions for Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open, the New Letters awards and Leapfrog Press

Literary Fiction Awards. She is Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University and lives in Savannah, GA.

Jane Varley is Chair of the English Department and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Muskingum University in Ohio. Her publications include nonfiction and poetry, most recently, a chapbook of poems called Sketches at the Naesti Bar, based on her travels in Iceland.

Rosalynde Vas Dias is the 2011 winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. She was born and raised in rural Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. Her poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, New Orleans Review, and The Pinch. Ms. Vas Dias lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Only Blue Body is her first book of poetry.

Dan Veach, editor of Atlanta Review, is the author of Elephant Water and winner of the Willis Barnstone Prize. He is co-editor and translator of Flowers of Flame (Michigan State U. Press, 2008), the first anthology of Iraqi poets on the war and winner of an Independent Publisher Book Award.

Scott Ward, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, is chair of the creative arts department at Eckerd College, where he has taught creative writing for twenty years. He has an M.A., University of South Carolina. His first book, Crucial Beauty (Scop Publications), won the 1990 Loiderman Poetry Prize. His most recent volume is Wayward Passages (2006, Black Bay Books). His poems have appeared in anthologies such as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon) and Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000 (Washington and Lee) and in journals including America, Southern Humanities Review, Hollins Critic, Blue Mesa Review, Shenandoah, and The Christian Century. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with wife, Jana, and sons, Caleb and Garland.

Helen Wallace’s first collection of poems, Shimming the Glass House, was chosen for the Richard Snyder Prize and published by Ashland Poetry Press. It won a 2008 bronze Florida Book Award. Her individual poems have been published in The Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Cumberland Review, Nimrod International, Tampa Review, and other journals, and she served as co-editor of the anthology Isle of Flowers published by Anhinga Press. She’s received a McKay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award, The dA Center for the Arts Poetry

Award, a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She earned her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from Florida State University, and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Eckerd College. She and her husband Peter both grew up in St. Petersburg, and raised their children there.

Patricia Waters was born and reared in Nashville, took her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee, teaches at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. Anhinga Press published The Ordinary Sublime, her first book of poetry. She is the Poetry Editor of the Alabama Literary Review.

Patti White is the author of two collections of poetry, Tackle Box (2002) and Yellow Jackets (2007), both from Anhinga Press; a third collection is forthcoming in 2013. Her poems have appeared in journals including River Styx, Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, New Madrid, DIAGRAM, and Forklift Ohio. She teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama, and is the director of Slash Pine Press.

Barbara Wiedemann, professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Auburn University Montgomery, is the author of two chapbooks: Half-Life of Love (2008) and Sometime in October (2010), both published by Finishing Line Press. In addition, her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Kaleidoscope, Blueline, Rambler, Feminist Studies, and Paper Street.

M. L. Williams is the author of the chapbook Other Medicines (Redbone 2008) and co-editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets with Christopher Buckley and David Oliveira. His poetry and essays have also appeared in The Measured Word: on Poetry and Science, A Condition of the Spirit, The Chattahoochee Review, Isotope, The Alehouse Review, TheScreamOnline.com, The Best of the Prose Poem, Verse and Universe, The Geography of Home, Rattapallax, Mead, Solo, The New Virginia Review, Quarterly West, Hubbub, and elsewhere. He is co-emcee of the Poetry Corner for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and teaches Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature at Valdosta State University.

Eric Miles Williamson is the author of three novels, a short story collection, and two books of criticism. His latest is Say It Hot: Essays on American Writers Living, Dying, and Dead. Widely published in Europe and America, he is senior editor of Boulevard, fiction editor of Texas

Review, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle. Williamson was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and is currently Professor of English at the University of Texas—Pan American.

James M. Wilson is the co-organizer of the "Other Words" Conference and is a member of the FLAC board. He has critiqued fiction at the Deep South Writers Festival of Writers and the UNF Writers Conference, led sessions on teaching creative writing at Houston Community College, and was an AWP panelist on organizing writing conferences. James M. Wilson has published short stories in the Southwestern Review, Prairie Winds and others. Currently, he teaches creative writing at Flagler College and is working on a novel called Giving it Away.

Libba Winston is Professor of English at the University of Tampa, where she teaches literature and first-year writing and also serves as nonfiction editor for Tampa Review. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since January 2011 she has been working toward a graduate degree in poetry through Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA program. Now when her students talk about their problems in meeting deadlines, she can truly feel their pain.

Terri Witek is the author of four books of poems-- Exit Island (2012), The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner; Carnal World (2006); Fools and Crows (2003); and Courting Couples (2000), a Center for Book Arts Prize winner. She holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University where she has received the McInery Award for Teaching and the John Hague Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in the liberal arts and sciences.

Lisa Zimmerman's poetry and short stories have appeared in Indiana Review, Colorado Review, Poet Lore, Cave Wall and many other journals. Her most recent poetry book is The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press, 2008). Her chapbook Snack Size: Poems is forthcoming this fall from Mello Press. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado and lives with her family in Fort Collins.