2025 Literature


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9/19/2023 9:00:00 AM

2025 Literature

2025

Singletary, Patricia

Holly Raschein

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Materials

Agenda Files

AgendaLiterature.pdf
gps-scp-rubric-2025.pdf
ScoregridLiterature.pdf

Panelists (6)

Parrish Stone, Christina

  • County: St. Johns County

Bio:

County: StJohns

Bio

  • Executive Director, St. Johns Cultural Council, St. Augustine, Florida
  • Previously, Attorney (private practice) and Senior Counsel, Rayonier
  • Trustee, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society; Chair, Flagler College Performing and Visual Arts Advisory Board; Chair, Art in Public Places Commission, Jacksonville, Florida; Chair, Groundwork Jacksonville Steering Committee
  • Received Helen Lane Founders Award, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville; Women of Influence Award, Jacksonville Business Journal; and Inducted into the Order of Coif and an Editor of the Florida Law Review
  • Juris Doctor, University of Florida Levin College of Law with high honors

Rusnak, Jeff

  • County: Broward County

Bio:

County: Broward

Bio

  • 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
 

Tanna, Mira

  • County: Orange County

Bio:

County: Orange

Bio

  • Grants Manager for the City of Orlando, Orlando, Florida
  • Previously worked in Central Florida libraries and with Washington University’s International Writers Center
  • Fun Fact: named after the 16th-century Hindu mystic poet Mirabai
  • B.A., Russian Language & Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

Monroe, Pamela

  • County: Leon County

Bio:

County: Leon

Bio

  • Library Director, Leon County Public Library, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Previously, Innovation Officer at Leon County Public Library
  • MLIS in Information and Library Science and M.S., Instructional Design, Florida State University

McCarty, Alison

  • County: Duval County

Bio:

County: Duval

Bio

  • Library Supervisor, Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, Florida
  • Manages the library's popular author interview and writing workshop program
  • MLIS, Library and Information Science, Kent State University; B.A., Physics and English, Case Western Reserve University

West-White, Clarissa

  • County: Volusia County

Bio:

County: Volusia

Bio

  • Reference Librarian,;Chair of English, World Languages and Cultures Studies Department; and Assistant Professor, English, Bethune-Cookman University
  • Incoming president of Florida Association of College & Research Libraries
  • Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction, English Education Program, M.S., Curriculum & Instruction, English Education; MSI, Information, College of Communication & Information; and B.A., English, concentration in Creative Writing, Florida State University