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Sheree Greer SPC Faculty Member |
"A Return to Arms" | http://www.shereelgreer.com/ | "A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Sheree L. Greer is a writer and educator living in Tampa, Florida. She founded The Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center to showcase and support the work of women writers of color and is the author of two novels, Let the Lover be and A Return to Arms, a short story collection, Once and Future Lovers, and a student writing guide, Stop Writing Wack Essays. Sheree is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, and Ragdale Artist House Rubin Fellow. She has completed Creative Capital Core Skills workshops and was awarded an NEA artist grant to support her current work in creative nonfiction. Sheree teaches composition, creative writing, fiction workshop, and African American literature at St. Petersburg College." |
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Craig Pittman Tampa Bay Times staff writer |
Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the rest of the Country | http://craigpittman.com |
"Craig Pittman is an American journalist and author of four books. He is a reporter and columnist for the Tampa Bay Times.According to The New York Times, Pittman's 2016 book, Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, is a "compulsively readable," native son's view of the state he "obviously loves," in which he makes a persuasive case that Florida has an outsize influence on the national culture.[1] The book grew out of a series of articles Pittman wrote for Slate (magazine).[2] The book, which covers such topics as driving in Florida, gambling in Florida, and sin and salvation in Florida, contains one of the earliest published uses of the phrase "Drainpipe of America." In February 2017 it won the gold medal for Florida non-fiction from the Florida Book Awards." |
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Jeff Klinkenberg Former Tampa Bay Times columnist |
Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators; Seasons of Real Florida; Alligators in B-Flat: The Gator Symphony | http://www.jeffklinkenberg.com | "Klinkenberg, who wrote about Florida culture for the Tampa Bay Times for almost four decades, is the author of the book collection of essays, Alligators in B-Flat, published by University Press of Florida. Previous anthologies, Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators, Seasons of Real Florida and Dispatches from the Land of Flowers, have been best sellers.
Born in 1949, Klinkenberg grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a small boy. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16 and became a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. He’s in the UF Journalism College’s Hall of Fame. He worked at the South’s largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, beginning in 1977. He retired in 2014. In 2015, he won the national Society of Features Journalism’s prestigious “Narrative Storytelling” award. |
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Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times staff writer |
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II |
https://www.amazon.com/Ben-Montgomery/e/B00FFRIIU2 https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/04/grandma-gatewoods-walk-by-ben-montgomery-review.html
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"Ben Montgomery is a former enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and founder of the narrative journalism website Gangrey.com. Montgomery grew up in Oklahoma and studied journalism at Arkansas Tech University, where he played defensive back for the football team, the Wonder Boys. He worked for the Courier in Russellville, Ark., the Standard-Times in San Angelo, Texas, the Times Herald-Record in New York's Hudson River Valley and the Tampa Tribune before joining the Times in 2006. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called "For Their Own Good," about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. He lives in Tampa with his wife, Jennifer, and three children." |
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Tim Dorsey New York Times Bestselling Author |
Florida Roadkill, Stingray Shuffle, Clownfish Blues, many others | http://www.timdorsey.com |
"Dorsey was born in Indiana and moved to Florida at the age of 1. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town in Palm Beach County just north of West Palm Beach. Dorsey graduated from Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua N.H, in 1979. He attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper. Dorsey graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in Transportation. After graduation, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and served as a police reporter for a local newspaper. In 1987, Dorsey relocated to Tampa, Florida, and became a reporter for The Tampa Tribune. Until he resigned from the paper in 1999 to write full-time, he worked variously as political reporter, correspondent in the Tribune's Tallahassee bureau, copy desk editor, and, finally, night metro editor and news coordinator. Currently, Dorsey lives in Tampa with his wife and two daughters." |
