General Fiction

John Dufresne

John Dufresne is the author of two short story collections and four novels, most recently Requiem, Mass. He is the winner of the 2008 Florida Book Award Gold Medal in General Fiction and teaches creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami.

Please send copies of books to:
John Dufresne
1065 SE 6th Ave
Dania Beach, FL 33004

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
2450 Maitland Center Pkwy, Suite 202
Maitland, FL 32751

Vivian (Godfrey) McGaha

Vivian (Godfrey) McGaha has worked exclusively in Florida libraries. She is currently the Collection Management Librarian at the Pinellas Park Public Library and previously worked as a Reference Librarian at the St. Pete Beach Public Library. While working at the Pinellas Talking Book Library, Vivian co-compiled Southern Women Writers: A Bibliography of Fictional Works from 1866 to the Present. Developing collections, working with library users, and participating in book discussion groups have led her to the discovery and appreciation of a wide variety of popular fiction writers.

Please send copies of books to:
Vivian McGaha
Pinellas Park Public Library
7770 52nd Street
Pinellas Park, FL 33781

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

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

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

Children's Literature

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

Carole D. Fiore

Carole Fiore, president of Training and Library Consulting, an independent library consulting firm, has worked as a librarian/media specialist for the School District of Philadelphia, as children's librarian and branch manager in public libraries in Florida, and served as the Youth Services Consultant for the State Library and Archives of Florida for 17 years. She has served on the Newbery, the Caldecott, and the Geisel Award Committees, all administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, and served as chair of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Committee for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Carole taught children's literature at the University of Tampa (FL) and was an adjunct professor at Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies. Active in the Florida Library Association, Carole has presented workshops on various aspects of library service to children, tweens, and teens as well children's and young adult literature across the United States and in England.

Please send submissions to:
Carole D. Fiore (FBA)
Training & Library Consulting
4651 Fledgling Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32311-1212

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

Sam Boldrick

Samuel J. Boldrick recently retired after 39 years with the Miami-Dade Public Library System, where he was manager of the Main Library's Florida Collection. He is a former President of the Florida Historical Society, and previously was President of the San Juan-based Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries, the Society of Florida Archivists, and the Dade Heritage Trust.

Materials should be sent to:
Sam Boldrick
P.O. Box 011349
Miami, FL 33101-1349

Shawn Bean

After beginning his career at CNN in New York, Shawn C. Bean has established himself as one of the most recognized young writers in Florida. Twice named Writer of the Year by the Florida Magazine Association (2004 and 2006), he has contributed to Florida Travel + Life, Florida Today, Miami New Times, and FORUM. Bean's historical non-fiction The First Hollywood won the 2008 Florida Book Award and was one of the University Press of Florida's best-selling titles of the year. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and two young sons.

Materials should be sent to:
Shawn Bean
5011 Spinet Drive
Melbourne, FL 32940

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

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 [Silver Medal in the Poetry Category] and a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award [Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category]. 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 Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of South Florida.

Please Send two copiesTo:
Hard copy to address:
Jay Hopler
605 Anchor Rode Drive
Naples, FL 34103

and PDF to email:
jhopler@usf.edu

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

Diane Stuckart

Diane A.S. Stuckart is the author of 8 published mysteries and historical romances, as well as numerous works of short fiction in various genres. Portrait of a Lady, the second in her Leonardo da Vinci historical mystery series, won the 2009 Florida Book Awards Silver Medal for Popular Fiction. Her first historical romance, Masquerade--written as Alexa Smart--was a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award finalist. Diane recently signed a 3-book contract for a contemporary mystery series featuring a bad-tempered feline and a beleaguered bookstore owner. The first of the Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries, Double-Booked for Death, will be on the shelves in summer 2011. A native Texan with a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, Diane now resides in the West Palm Beach area and considers herself an apprentice Floridian.

Please send copies of books to:
Diane Stuckart
17884 30th Lane N
Loxahatchee, FL 33470

Stephanie Maatta Smith

Stephanie Maatta Smith is the author of A Few Good Books: Using Contemporary Readers' Advisory Strategies to Connect Readers with Books (Neal-Schuman, 2009). She earned her Ph.D. and Master of Science in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University, and served on faculty at the University of South Florida. Her current research interests focus on reading and books as social and cultural phenomenon.

Please send copies of books to:
Dr. Stephanie Maatta Smith
10006 Cross Creek Blvd., #129
Tampa, FL 33647

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