2022 Literature SCP & GPS



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9/18/2020 9:00:00 AM

2022 Literature SCP & GPS

2022


Deborah Kynes

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Panelists (8)

  • County: Leon County

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County: Leon

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  • 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
  • County: Broward County

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County: Broward

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  • Director of Development, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida
  • Concept creator and Producer of the Center's Open Dialogues documentary film-short series.
  • Print journalist, staff and freelance (1985 – 2011): international soccer, politics, fine dining, stand-up comedy, and broadcast media, primarily for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and City Link Magazine
  • Seeking publisher for novel The Magnificent Marty Dale
  • A.A. Degree, Broward Community College, 1980; attended Atlanta College of Art
 
  • County: Palm Beach County

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County: PalmBeach

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  • 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
  • County: Brevard County

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County: Brevard

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  • 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

 

  • County: Alachua County

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County: Alachua

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  • 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
  • County: Pasco County

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County: Pasco

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  • Professor of English, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
  • Faculty Mentor, Bay Path University MFA program in creative nonfiction
  • Novelist and short-story writer
  • County: Lee County

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County: Lee

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  • 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
  • County: Orange County

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County: Orange

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  • 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