Artist Directory > Literary
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Glynn Marsh Alam
850-893-1218 | glynnauth@comcast.net | www.glynnmarshalam.com
I write the Luanne Fogarty North Florida Mystery Series set in areas near Tallahassee. I have also written a literary novel set in this area, River Whispers.
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Doug Alderson
850-421-3677 | dougalderson@comcast.net | www.dougalderson.net
Doug Alderson is the author of several books, including Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast (University Press of Florida 2005), The Vision Keepers: Walking for Native Americans and the Earth (Quest Books 2007), New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak (University Press of Florida, 2009), and Encounters with Florida’s Endangered Wildlife (University Press of Florida, 2010). Additionally, his articles and photographs have been featured in magazines such as Sea Kayaker, Wildlife Conservation, American Forests, Sierra, Mother Earth News and Shaman’s Drum. He has won two national writing awards for his magazine features, and three state awards.
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Jan Godown Annino
jgaoffice@gmail.com | bookseedstudio.wordpress.com
Jan Godown Annino is a children’s author in North Florida. She has written Florida heritage travel guides and worked as a community newspaper reporter for most of her career. Today, her writing appears in anthologies, including The Book of the Everglades, edited by Susan Cerulean & in publications, such as Storytelling magazine. She is the author of, among others, the picture book biography, She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader.
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Julianna Baggott
jcbaggott@gmail.com | www.juliannabaggott.com
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She has published sixteen books over the last ten years. Baggott's work has appeared in over a hundred publications, including the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Glamour, Ms., Real Simple, and read on NPR's Here and Now and Talk of the Nation. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.
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Michèle Beaudin
850-877-1006 | michele@immiges.com | www.immiges.com | www.immigesandwords.com
As an award-winning artist for both her photography and as an author, Michèle Beaudin’s extensive collection of published articles, chap books of poetry and original photographs, as well as novels have a presence in four continents. Photographs are available on either web site and her books can be purchased from your favorite internet book store and are available on Kindle. Her novels are: "Crossing the 50 Yard Line" and Crossing the Dream Line." Books of original photographs and poetry: "Seasons on Lookout Mountain (AL)", "The Mountain (N.C)" and "Visions of Reality, Illusions of truth (WI)."
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Michael Beckford
850-519-4994 | michaeldbeckford@gmail.com | www.speakpublishing.com
Michael D. Beckford is currently working towards building up his craft as a writer and spreading the news and awareness of his works to whomever is receptive in listening. With a couple hundred books sold for “Beautifully Ugly People!” and “I am the secret!," his main goal is to have all of his books read by the masses, as he continues to work the change that God has put in him to bless others; through speaking, community service, and giving love to God’s people.
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Patricia M. Browning
404-374-0923 | patriciambrowning@gmail.com | www.thelitchix.com
FSU alumni Patricia Melton Browning has co-authored two humorous murder mysteries set in present day Atlanta. She and two friends (Joann Dunn and Karen McColgan) write as Georgia Adams and their books feature three amateur sleuths who are members of a book club called The LitChix. While murder is serious, the way these women solve mysteries will keep you grinning.
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Janet Burroway
jburroway@fsu.edu | www.janetburroway.com
Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Her Writing Fiction : A Guide to Narrative Craft, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a third edition. Her most recent novel is Bridge of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009), and her play Medea With Child was produced in 2010 by Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Florida State University.
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Robert Olen Butler
rbutler@fsu.edu | www.robertolenbutler.com
Robert Olen Butler has published twelve novels—The Alleys of Eden, Sun Dogs, Countrymen of Bones, On Distant Ground, Wabash, The Deuce, They Whisper, The Deep Green Sea, Mr. Spaceman, Fair Warning, Hell and (forthcoming this August) A Small Hotel—and six volumes of short fiction—Tabloid Dreams, Had a Good Time, Severance, Intercourse, Weegee Stories, and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Butler has published a volume of his lectures on the creative process, From Where You Dream, edited with an introduction by Janet Burroway.
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Rick Campbell
850-228-1927 | rcamp427@gmail.com
I've been writing poetry and non-fiction essays for awhile. Books include Dixmont, The Traveler's Companion, and Setting the World in Order. I work with Anhinga Press publishing poetry as well.
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Bob Crowley
850-329-6134 | bobcrowley09@gmail.com
Working on a historic novel of Governor Edwin Edwards of Louisiana.
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Rhett DeVane
trugrits@embarqmail.com | www.rhettdevane.com
Humor is as essential to the Deep South as sweet tea, grits and mayonnaise. Laughter lubricates. Uplifts. Sustains. Beneath the clichés of big-haired beauties and all things made with lard, the desire for stories laced with laughter flows over us as thick as sweet cream butter and Tupelo honey on a Cathead biscuit. Author Rhett DeVane's novels feed the spirit. Sit down on the shady porch. Prop up your feet. Grab a cool glass of sweet tea with a slice of lemon and sprig of fresh mint. You're among friends.
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Cynie Cory
850-445-7698 | cyniejc@yahoo.com
I'm a poet ("American Girl," New Issues Press 2004), playwright and essayist.
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Sherron D. Flagg
850-877-4339
Ms. Flagg has worked as a writer/editor for the past 25+ years. Having abandoned the corporate rat race, Ms. Flagg continues to work as a free-lance writer and editor, but has also indulged herself in other artistic pursuits.
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Adrian Fogelin
850-580-4678 | adrianfog@aol.com | www.adrianfogelin.com | slowdancejournal.wordpress.com
I write novels for young readers and am a frequent visitor to classrooms to talk about my books and teach creative writing. I have won Florida Book Award gold medals for both "The Real Question" and "The Sorta Sisters." I am also half of the singing duo "Hot Tamale." We play everything from Motown to classic Country to old-school Rock and Roll.
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Terry Galloway
850-224-3089 | tlgalloway@aol.com | www.meanlittledeafqueer.com | www.mickeefaust.com
I'm a writer/performer/director who writes, directs and performs. I'm the co-founder and Artistic Director of the 25-year-old performance company here in Tallahassee, The Mickee Faust Club. I co-founded two other theater companies in Austin, Texas – the 30-year-old Esther's Follies and the ten-year-old Actual Lives Austin. I've toured my solo shows ("Heart of a Dog," "Out All Night & Lost My Shoes," and "Lardo Weeping") all over this country and parts of the world. Excerpts from those solo shows and my two-act play "In the House of the Moles," have been anthologized in collections like "Monologues by Women for Women," "The Elvis Monologues," "Monologues from the Women's Project," and the like. My memoir "Mean Little deaf Queer," published by Beacon Press in 2009, is now in its third printing.
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Marilynn Griffith
marilynngriffith@gmail.com | www.marilynngriffith.com
Marilynn Griffith is mom to a tribe and proof that God give second chances. When she's not facing Mount-Fold-Me or trying to find someone a clean shirt, she writes books about faith, family and friendship. She also speaks to women and youth about writing and reaching their dreams.
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David Kirby
dkirby@fsu.edu | http://www.davidkirby.com/
David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has received many honors for his work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work appears frequently in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize volumes. Kirby is the author of numerous books, including The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award in poetry. His Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll was named one of Booklist's Top 10 Black History Non-Fiction Books of 2010, and the Times Literary Supplement called it "a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense."
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Evangelist Ella Knight
850-980-2775 | ellaknight52@hotmail.com | www.evangelistellaknight.com
Evangelist Ella Knight shares the deep, dark life experiences that God allowed her to travel through. From a rough marriage, severe financial struggles, vicious attacks by witchcraft workers, demons & more. She shares the experiences that almost caused her to kill herself. Her book, "How to Overcome the Spirit of Fear" is a guide to overcoming many fearful attacks.
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Laura Lascarso
lauralascarso@yahoo.com | www.lauralascarso.com | www.redeyewriters.com
Laura Lascarso is an author of juvenile fiction with her debut novel, "Counting Backwards," to be published by Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) in August 2012. She lives in North Florida with her husband, two children, three chickens, and a dog named Lucy.
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Angele McQuade
angelemcquade@gmail.com | www.angelemcquade.com | www.redeyewriters.com
Angele McQuade is the author of two non-fiction books, including "Investment Clubs for Dummies." She is a columnist for "Better Investing" magazine and also writes children's and young adult novels.
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Donna Meredith
850-878-2931 | meredithds@comcast.net | www.donnameredith.com | www.wildwomenwriters.com
Donna Meredith is the author of "The Glass Madonna." The novel won first place for women's fiction in the Florida Writers Association's RPLA contest and runner-up from the Gulf Coast Writers contest in 2009. Her second yet-to-be-published novel, "The Color of Lies," also won first place from FWA in 2010. Donna is a board member of the Tallahassee Writers Association and edits their literary magazine, "The Seven Hills Review." She also formed an independent publishing company, Wild Women Writers, in 2010.
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Tremayne Moore
850-545-7033 | tremayne_moore@yahoo.com | www.maynetre.com
Tremayne Moore, founder of Maynetre Manuscripts, LLC, is an accountant, a writer, a psalmist, a griot, and a spoken word motivational speaker. He holds bachelor's degrees in Accounting and Management Information Systems. Currently, he's the author of the "Take It From" poetry series.
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Mark T. Mustian
mark@markmustian.com | www.markmustian.com
Mark T. Mustian is an author, attorney and city commissioner. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, three children and dog. He also serves as the current chair of the Lutheran Readers Project, a nationwide effort to connect readers and writers associated with the Lutheran faith. Mustian's fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Stand Magazine, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Opium Magazine, Parting Gifts and other publications.
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Richard Edward Noble
850-670-8076 | richardedwardnoble@gtcom.net | thehobophilosopher.blogspot.com
I have written and published 10 books. I write fiction, non-fiction, poetry, history, short stories, newspaper columns and creative non-fiction.
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Linda S. North
850-385-4875 | cygirls1@yahoo.com | sites.google.com/site/lindanorthwritesfiction
Author with Regal Crest Enterprises, a GLBT publisher. Current Novel “The Dreamer, Her Angel, and the Stars,” a lesbian romance. Publication date: July 2011.
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Anne Petty
850-926-3464 | acp@annepetty.com | www.annepetty.com | www.kitsunebooks.com
Anne Petty, Ph.D., is an author and mythology/folklore scholar. Her published works include 3 books of literary criticism on J.R.R. Tolkien and fantasy writing; 2 horror/dark fantasy novels, several award-winning dark fantasy short stories, and many chapters in anthologies (fiction and non-fiction). She is also the founder of Kitsune Books, a literary small press based in Crawfordville, FL.
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Mary Jane Ryals
mryals@cob.fsu.edu | sites.google.com/site/maryjaneryalspoetlaureate
Mary Jane Ryals is the Poet Laureate of Florida's Big Bend Region. Nominated in 2008, Ryals will hold the title until 2012. She brings the world of poetry to schools and literary events in Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, and other north Florida counties. Her latest book of poems is The Moving Waters, published by Kitsune Press in 2008. Ryals has been involved with the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Competition, Florida State University's Valencia, Spain Study Abroad Program, the Tallahassee Writers' Association Festival of Books, and the literary magazine, Apalachee Review.
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Ruth Sawh
850-562-3281 | rsawh@comcast.net
I have been an English Professor at Florida A & M for 22 years. Among the courses I teach is an introductory course to Techniques of Fiction, which directly relates to the writing I love to do – mostly fiction, but also a dash of nonfiction and a sprinkle of poetry.
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Kati Schardl
850-599-2149 | kschardl@tallahassee.com | www.tallahassee.com
I am the features editor at the Tallahassee Democrat. I also write about pop culture and music.
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Ted Simmons
850-894-6181 | ted@txnted.com | www.txnted.com
Ted primarily writes action/adventure stories for Young Adults and those who like to feel young. His novel, Sandstorm, was inspired by the need to leave his home in Kuwait, his possessions and his wife's little dog, when the Iraqis invaded that tiny country in 1990.
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Ellen Thomas
ellenthomasauthor@yahoo.com | www.ellenthomasauthor.com
My book, "The Bipolar Express: One Christian Woman's Life Journey In The Company of a Child with Bipolar Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome" take readers through sixteen years of hoarding, shoplifting and suicide attempts. This book will help parents know their child's educational rights as they read of our daughter's civil rights being violated by a school district. Families will get a voice when no energy remains to tell their own story.
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Felicia S.W. Thomas
850-661-0586 | feliciathomas917@hotmail.com | www.feliciaswthomas.com
Felicia S.W. Thomas is the author of “80 Proof Lives,” her debut young adult fiction novel. She is an attorney and also a freelance writer. Ms. Thomas is currently working on several other projects, and is available for speaking engagements.
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Ed Tiley
850-653-6951 | edtiley@supernet.net | www.edtiley.com
Ed Tiley has written 20 computer-related books for Que Books and Howard Sams Publishing (Macmillan Computer Publishing, formerly Prentice Hall Computer Publishing). He has also written columns and articles for DBF Magazine, Windows User Magazine, QBS Software News, and NetGuide Magazine, and was a contributing editor to Clipper Advisor Magazine. His books and magazine articles have been translated into Greek, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, French, Polish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, and others.
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Michael Trammell
850-878-8440 | mtrammell@cob.fsu.edu | www.apalacheereview.org
One of the chief editors of the Apalachee Review.
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Lu Vickers
vickersl@tcc.fl.edu | www.southernartistry.org/Lucinda_Vickers
Lu Vickers received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Florida State University, where she was a Kingsbury Fellow. She has published essays and short stories in numerous magazines such as Salon.com and Apalachee Review. She has been awarded three Individual Artist’s Fellowships from the State of Florida, most recently for “The Natural History of a Mermaid,” an excerpt from her latest novel. In 2007, she published two books, Breathing Underwater, a novel, and Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids, a History of One of Florida’s Oldest Roadside Attractions.
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Anne Vuxton
850-942-0640 | annevux@gmail.com
18 years of experience proofreading literary, technical, medical, and critical writing.
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Jessica Wallace
800-790-7576 | jessica.wallace@olivervance.com | www.olivervance.com
"Oliver Vance, Pull Up Your Pants!" is the story of a boy who thought it would be cool to wear his pants sagging. Oliver ignores his mother's warning and leaves the house with his underwear showing! Oliver experiences all sorts of unexpected consequences, and learns the importance of having the courage to be yourself.
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Michael Whitehead
In April 2003 Colonel Michael Whitehead, an Army Reservist, flew into Iraq to begin a ten-month tour of duty that gave him an eyewitness view of the opening year of the war. He chronicled his experiences and e-mailed them home to family and friends, providing accounts that were so genuine and engaging that ultimately his messages from Babylon were forwarded to interested readers across the country. Read accounts of his dealings with the Marines, the 29 nation Multi-national Division, KBR contractors, and Blackwater. This email diary is a vivid memoir of the first year of the Iraq war, and an attempt to explain to family and friends the unique and unusual events that he was experiencing.
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Susan Womble
susan.womble@gmail.com | www.susanwomble.com | newtsworldbeginnings.com
Susan Womble is an award-winning author. The first book in her series "Newt's World: Beginnings" won the 2008 Gold Medal Florida Book Award, and is also on the 2009 Just Read Florida Recommended Reading List. Her writing credits also include "Newt's World Beginnings Workbook" (teacher and student editions), and "Newt's World: Internal Byte" and accompanying workbook. Susan is a National Board Certified teacher with a career of teaching grades K-12th in the areas of reading, special education, language arts, math, social studies and the profoundly handicapped.
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Mark Winegardner
winegardner@fsu.edu | www.markwinegardner.com
Mark Winegardner's books have been translated into more than twenty languages and sold almost two million copies worldwide. They have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, the New York Public Library, The American Library Association, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Sun-Times. In 2004, Cleveland Magazine named Crooked River Burning the best book ever written about Cleveland. His work has appeared in such magazines as Doubletake, GQ, Men's Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, Playboy, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.
