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2022 Literature SCP & GPS
Type:
Webinar
Scheduled:
9/18/2020 9:00:00 AM
Name:
2022 Literature SCP & GPS
Fiscal Year:
2022
Staff Member:
Callahan, Summer
Chair:
Deborah Kynes
Location:
Webinar
Access:
Comments Closed
Public Panel Meeting Information
Materials
Agenda Files
LiteraturePanelistNotebook.pdf
LiteratureSCP&GPSScoregrid.pdf
Panelists (8)
Suárez, Virgil
County: Leon County
Bio:
County: Leon
Bio
Professor, Creative Writing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Published
The Painted Bunting's Last Molt
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Author of over twenty books, among them several novels, story and poetry collections, edited anthologies, and numerous stories, translations, essays, and poems.
Conducted readings, workshops, and lectures in many universities, colleges, schools, book fairs, libraries, prisons, and community groups nationally and internationally.
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Louisiana State University
Rusnak, Jeff
County: Broward County
Bio:
County: Broward
Bio
Development Director, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
Operates a soccer blog, RusnakSoccerFL.com
Former Free-lance Journalist, writing primarily for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper and City Link Magazine about arts and entertainment, international soccer, fine dining, politics, and the culture at large
Former Sportswriter at the Sun-Sentinel,Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A.A., Broward Community College
Furman, Andrew
County: Palm Beach County
Bio:
County: PalmBeach
Bio
Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Author of several books, most recently the novels Jewfish (2020) and Goldens Are Here (2018), and the memoir, Bitten (2014)
PhD and MA, The Pennsylvania State University
Perdigao, Lisa
County: Brevard County
Bio:
County: Brevard
Bio
Assistant Vice President for the Honors College and Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida
Previously Humanities Program Chair, Florida Institute of Technology
Ph.D., English, Northeastern University, M.A., English, Boston College, B.A., English and Philosophy, Boston College
Ciment, Jill
County: Alachua County
Bio:
County: Alachua
Bio
Professor of Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Author of
Small Claims
, a collection of short stories and novellas;
The Law of Falling Bodies
,
Teeth of the Dog
,
The Tattoo Artist
, and
Heroic Measures
,
The Body in Question
, novels; and
Half a Life
, a memoir
Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts, a NEA Japan Fellowship Prize, two New York State Fellowships for the Arts, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
5 Flights Up
, a film adaptation of
Heroic Measures
, was released in 2015
Ciresi, Rita
County: Pasco County
Bio:
County: Pasco
Bio
Professor of English, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Faculty Mentor, Bay Path University MFA program in creative nonfiction
Novelist and short-story writer
Patane, Angela
County: Lee County
Bio:
County: Lee
Bio
Chair of the Board of Directors, Love Your Rebellion, Fort Myers, Florida
Author of the poetry collection
Speaking with My Second Mouth
M.F.A., Writing, Goddard College
Lillios, Anna
County: Orange County
Bio:
County: Orange
Bio
Professor of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Author of
The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
(medalist, Florida Book Award, 2011)
Editor of The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature
Director of The Zora Neale Hurston Electronic Archive
Director, UCF World Writers Series (1986-97)
Member, Academics Committee, Town of Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Festival for the Arts and Humanities