General Fiction

J Joaquin Fraxedas

J Joaquin Fraxedas is the author of The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera, St. Martin's Press. He was born in Cuba, immigrated to the U.S. at age ten and lived in Michigan before moving to Florida. He attended the University of Florida on an academic scholarship and studied creative writing under authors Harry Crews (The Gospel Singer), Clara Rising (In the Season of the Wild Rose) and James Dickey (Deliverance). He graduated from UF with a B.A. in Philosophy and then attended law school, also at the University of Florida, where he graduated with a Doctorate in Jurisprudence in 1975. Since then he has practiced law in the Orlando area where he lives with his family.

Please send copies of books to:
J Joaquin Fraxedas
500 Winderley Place
Suite 222
Maitland, FL 32751

Chrissy Jackson

Chrissy Jackson is President of 1,200-member Florida Writers Association (FWA) and published author of short stories as well as over thirty non-fiction books on property management. She is also the creator of FWA's annual Collection books which contain sixty short stories on a different theme each year. As an active member o the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, she also leads interest groups on various topics.

Please send copies of books to:
Chrissy Jackson
P.O. Box 66069
St. Pete Beach, FL 33736-6069

Chauncey Mabe

Chauncey Mabe grew up in Southwest Virginia, where he fell in love with reading in order to learn more about dinosaurs. For 23 years he served as the book editor for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. Today he labors as a freelancer--or, as he fondly calls it--"sharecropping"--and struggles to learn new tricks. He writes a daily books blog--"Open Page"--for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, a Florida Book Awards partner.

Send copies of books to:
Chauncey Mabe
3003 Terramar St.
704
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

Young Adult Literature

Anne Ake

Anne Ake has recently retired from a career in marketing and promotions. She has written five young adult nonfiction books including Everglades: An Ecosystem Facing Choices and Challenges, a 2008 Florida Book Awards silver medal winner. Her favorite topic is the environment, but she has also written extensively on the arts. She was editor of Bay Arts and Entertainment magazine for eight years and published Cool KidStuff a regional children's magazine. She has written several articles on artist Dean Mitchell and wrote the text for the book Dean Mitchell: The Early Years. She lives in the Panhandle with four dogs and two cats and is an active volunteer with Florida State Parks and environmental groups.

Please send copies of books to:
Anne Ake
604 E 6th St.
Lynn Haven, FL 32444

Renae Rountree

Renae Rountree has lived in small towns most of her life and understands the need for children to be exposed to the world through great literature. This has translated into a passion for rural libraries. As a result, she spends considerable time brainstorming creative ways to get children to read at the Washington County Public Library, where she serves as an assistant branch manager. In her spare time, she loves to travel and delights in curling up with a good book on a sandy, white beach.

Please send copies of books to:
Renae Rountree
675 Fourth Street       
Chipley, FL 32428

Julie Gonzalez

Julie Gonzalez lives in Pensacola, where she treasures the beaches and rivers, the colorful skies, and the shoreline of Escambia Bay, on which she grew up. She has three published young adult novels: Wings (winner of 21st Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel), Ricochet (ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers), and Imaginary Enemy (2008 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medalist)--all published by Delacorte Press, a division of Random House. Her favorite game is chess, but she plays just about any game, any time. She also enjoys listening to music, reading, gardening, doing art, sailing, and sky watching. And, of course, writing.

Please send copies of books to:
Julie Gonzalez
3451 Wellington Rd.
Pensacola, FL 32504

Children's Literature

Jan Godown Annino

Jan Godown Annino left rural New Jersey for Florida "at an age when a new pal with a retired circus clown Dad, and colored floodlights flashing on white gravel yards, made an impression." Jan calls "the state scalloped by barrier islands" her literary home. After a newsroom career, she wrote for magazines such as Storytelling, published Florida heritage guides and, contributed to anthologies such as The Book of the Everglades. She is the 2010 Florida Book Awards Gold Medal winner in Children's Literature for She Sang of Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader. It is also listed as an American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Top 10 Book.

Please send juror materials to:
Jan Godown Annino
P.O. Box 14143
Tallahassee, FL 32317-4143

Nancy Cantor

Nancy Cantor is a media specialist at the University Lower School of Nova Southeastern University. In addition to her responsibilities in the media center, Mrs. Cantor edits the school literary magazine and coaches a junior forensics program. She has more than 20 years of experience as an educator.

Please send submissions to:
Nancy Cantor
University Lower School
3375 SW 75 Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314

Kathleen East

Kathleen East is currently a media specialist in Hernando County, Florida, and has spent her professional life infecting children of all ages with a love of reading. As a teacher and then a librarian, first in South Florida, then in Connecticut, and now back in Central Florida, she has given thousands of book talks to thousands of readers from Miami to New England. A sometimes storyteller and dulcimer player, she often couples music with a love of story as a way to engage new readers. Having "discovered" audio-books a few years back, she is now contemplating the purchase of a Kindle because it allows you to carry a library with you everywhere.

Please send copies of books to:
Kathleen East
9002 Blackstone Street
Spring Hill, FL 34608-5513

Florida Nonfiction

James Cusick

James G. Cusick is Curator for the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida and is the selector for its book section, including its extensive holdings in fiction by Florida authors. Since 2004 he has worked closely with the Florida Humanities Council to bring knowledge of Florida's colonial history to primary, middle school, and high school teachers around the state. In addition to his duties at the university, he serves on the boards of the Florida Historical Society and the Matheson Museum, Gainesville.

Please send copies of books to:
James Cusick
Curator, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History
Special & Area Studies Collections
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

Andrew Frank

Andrew K. Frank is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at
Florida State University. His research primarily focuses on the Native
Americans of Florida and the Southeast. He is the author and editor of
several books, including Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early
American Frontier (University of Nebraska Press, 2005) and The Routledge
Historical Atlas of the American South (Routledge, 1999). He is currently
writing Those Who Camp at a Distance: The Seminoles and Indians of Florida,
a look at the social and cultural history of the Seminole Indians from their
origins to the present.

Materials should be sent to:
Andrew Frank
Department of History
Florida State University
113 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2200

Robert Snyder

Robert E. Snyder received his Ph. D from Syracuse University, and has taught American Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa, since 1980. He was a Humanities consultant on the Ken Burns Academy Award nominated documentary Huey Long. Dr. Snyder is the author of Cotton Crisis, and Pioneer Commercial : The Burgert Brothers of Tampa, Florida. He is presently the President of the Florida Historical Society.

Send copies of books to:
Dr. Robert E. Snyder
19602 Livingston Avenue
Lutz, Florida 33559-4015

Poetry

Vidhu Aggarwal

Vidhu Aggarwal's poems and photo-text works have appeared in Nimrod, Interlope, Harper Palate, Pistola, Limestone, and Norton's Contemporary Voices from the East, among others. She is currently completing a manuscript of poetry entitled Humpadori about the Bollywood film industry, US-American silent film, and karaoke. An Assistant Professor at Rollins, she studies poetry and poetics, modernism, popular cinema, and globalization. In particular, she is working on the figure of the playback singer and lip-synching in relationship to Bollywood poetics. She is the founding editor of the multi-genre print journal of contemporary arts and culture, specs: http://www.specsjournal.org.

Please send copies of books to:
Vidhu Aggarwal
1000 Holt Avenue--2666
Winter Park, FL 32789

Enid Shomer

Poet and fiction writer Enid Shomer is the author of four books of poetry and two of short fiction, most recently Tourist Season (Random House), which won the 2008 Gold Medal in Fiction in the Florida Book Awards and was also chosen for Barnes & Nobles' "Discover Great New Writers" series. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, Best New Stories from the South and many other magazines as well as more than seventy anthologies and textbooks. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, including two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, Shomer currently edits the poetry series of the University of Arkansas Press. Her feature interviews on National Public Radio are available online: the first (on "All Things Considered") for her prize-winning first book of stories Imaginary Men, and the second (for Sunday's "Morning Edition") for her book of poetry Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran.

Please send copies of books to:
Enid Shomer
4522 West Azeel St.
Tampa FL 33609

Jay Hopler

Jay Hopler's first book of poems, Green Squall (Yale University Press, 2006) was chosen by Louise Gluck as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Green Squall also received the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a 2007 National "Best Books" Award from USA Book News, a 2006 Florida Book Award and a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. He also has been the recipient of a Marfa Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, a Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and a Rome Fellowship in Literature (The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Gift from the Drue Heinz Trust) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters/The American Academy in Rome. He is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of South Florida.

Please Send two copies to:
Jay Hopler
605 Anchor Rode Drive
Naples, FL 34103

Popular Fiction

Nancy Ansley

Nancy Ansley is the Adult Programming, Exhibits and Computer Technology Center Supervisor at South Regional-Broward College Library, Pembroke
Pines, Florida. In the past Nancy has worked as Public Relations Manager for a Hospice and as a Travel Director in the travel industry, nationally, internationally with Incentive Houses and Destination Management companies. She has three grown daughters and three grandchildren and loves living in South Florida. Her hobbies include reading, bicycling, canoeing, swimming, creating and making jewelry.

Please send copies of books to:
Nancy Ansley
13255 SW 7th Court, D-103
Pembroke Pines, Florida 33027

Hayley St. John-Ayre

Hayley St.John-Ayre is the administrative coordinator for the assistant director of Broward County Library. Hayley was born in South-Africa but has enjoyed living in south Florida for the last 15 years. She has travelled extensively and has spent time in diverse regions such as Europe, Australia, Middle-East and the Caribbean. She is an avid reader of all types of popular fiction.

Books to be sent to:
Hayley St.John-Ayre
c/o Broward County Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Anne Powell

Anne Martin Powell is a native of West Palm Beach who earned an MA at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College and enjoyed a long career in the field of developmental disabilities.  At Florida State University’s Center for Prevention & Intervention Policy, she co-authored the Partners for a Healthy Baby Curriculum.  Now Grandma to three and newly retired, Anne is in the gestational stage of composing a memoir, the writing process rekindling her love of intriguing phrases and stories.  She volunteers with a nonprofit serving individuals in need and, for kicks, she gardens and creates stuff out of fabric or stone. 

Please send copies of books to:
Anne Powell
1815 Old Fort Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Spanish Language

Carlos Cano

Born in Havana, Cuba, but educated in Tampa, Florida. He majored in Latin American Literature and minored in Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he received his Doctorate in Philosophy in 1973. He has taught at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, and he is currently an Associate Professor of Latin American culture, film and literature at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Please send copies of books to:
Carlos Cano
17714 1st Street East
Redington Shores, FL 33708

Yanira Angulo-Cano

Yanira Angulo-Cano, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Eckerd College, received her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from Florida State University. Her research interests include the autobiographical genre in Latin American literature, and Cuban culture, literature, and film. She has published on Bernal Diaz del Castillo and on Cuban-American autobiographical writing, and has presented research papers in national and international conferences.

Please send copies of books to:
Yanira Angulo-Cano
17714 1st Street East
Redington Shores, FL 33708

Geraldine Cleary Nichols

Geraldine Cleary Nichols is Professor of contemporary Spanish and Catalan literature at the University of Florida, where she has taught since 1979. Her publications have centered on women's literature and its reception in Spain, with particular attention to Catalonia. Her current project involves the representation of reproduction in the writing of Catalan and Spanish authors, including those exiled after the Spanish Civil War. She has published three books and over 40 articles in her field, and has lectured widely in the US, as well as in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, England, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

Please send copies of books to:
Geraldine Cleary Nichols
2024 NW 63 Terr.
Gainesville, FL 32605

Visual Arts

Adam Jolles

Adam Jolles is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Florida State University. His research interests include 20th-century European art, the history of display, and the history of photography. He is co-curator and co-author of Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945 (The Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011). His monograph, The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and the Making of the Modern Exhibition in France, will be published by Penn State University Press in 2013.

Please send copies of books to:
Adam Jolles
Department of Art History
Florida State University
1019 William Johnston Building
143 Honors Way
P.O. Box 3061151
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151

Laila Miletic-Vejzovic

Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, MLS, heads Special Collections and University Archives at University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries. She joined the UCF library faculty after 19 years at Washington State University (WSU), where she had been head of Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. Ms. Miletic-Vejzovic began her career as a librarian in 1986, at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, after obtaining her MLS from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her numerous awards include two Fulbright Scholar Awards in 1992 and 2004, a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant in 2002-2003, two International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) grants in 1997 and 2000. In 1996, she was selected to attend the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College. She has served as a member of the Washington State Historical Records Advisory Board, and as a member of the WSU Press Editorial Board.


Please send copies of books to:
Laila Miletic-Vejzovic
Special Collections & University Archives
University of Central Florida
P.O. box 162666
Orlando, FL 32816-2666

Linda R. McKee

Linda R. McKee has been the Head Librarian at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota since 1994. Previously she worked for Sarasota County Libraries Department and at Princeton University's Marquand Library of Art and the Graphic Arts department of rare illustrated books at Firestone Library at Princeton. She holds a BA from Douglass College in Art History and German, and an M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture and an M.L.S. in Library Services from Rutgers University. She is on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Research Libraries, Chair of the Ringling Museum Publications Committee, and author and editor of museum and other art publications. Linda is an active member in the Florida Library Association, Florida Association of Museums and ARLIS, the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Please send copies of books to:
Linda R. McKee
Library
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243