2019 Literature


Teleconference

10/3/2017 2:00:00 PM

2019 Literature

2019


Tim Deratany

Brokaw-McDougall House

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Panelists (5)

Byrnes, Kaye

  • County: Duval County

Bio:

County: Duval

Bio

  • Director, Florida Storytelling Festival, Mt. Dora
  • Past President and Board member, Florida Storytelling Association
  • Professional storyteller, focusing on fairy tales, fables, myths, legends, original takes, and classic literature
  • Selected venues: Ritz Carlton at Amelia Island, Limelight Theater, Florida StoryFest, Florida Folk Festival, Alachua County Storytelling Festival, Ocala Storytelling Festival, Cracker Storytelling Festival, Northeast Florida Library Information Network, Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Panhandle Library Access Network, Southwest Florida Library Information Network, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Library Association
  • B.F.A., Theatre, University of Wisconsin

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
 

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

Fernandez Rana, Paola

  • County: Miami-Dade County

Bio:

County: MiamiDade

Bio

  • Manager of Programs, Miami Book Fair, Miami Dade College, Miami
  • Previously, Director of Publicity at Anchor Books/Doubleday and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • B.A., Communications and Political Science, University of New Hampshire

Carrion, Teresa

  • County: Leon County

Bio:

County: Leon

Bio

 

  • Co-founder, 100 Thousand Poets for Change and the 100 Thousand Poets for Change On Lake Jackson Residency Program, Tallahassee
  • Co-editor, BigBridge.org, an online poetry and arts magazine
  • Board Member, Anhinga Press and Friends of Lake Jackson
  • M.F.A., Creative Writing, Florida International University