2024 Literature SCP & GPS


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9/26/2022 9:00:00 AM

2024 Literature SCP & GPS

2024


Deborah Kynes

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Materials

Agenda Files

gps-scp-rubric-2024.pdf
LitScoregrid.pdf
LiteraturePanelNotebook.pdf

Panelists (7)

Tanna, Mira

  • County: Orange County

Bio:

County: Orange

Bio

  • Grants Manager for the City of Orlando, Orlando, Florida
  • Previously worked in Central Florida libraries and with Washington University’s International Writers Center
  • Fun Fact: named after the 16th-century Hindu mystic poet Mirabai
  • B.A., Russian Language & Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

Rodusky, Jan

  • County: Palm Beach County

Bio:

County: PalmBeach

Bio

  • Founder and Principal, Venn There Grants Consulting, LLC, Royal Palm Beach
  • 25+ years as a Grant Professional in writing, managing, and awarding grants
  • Chief Grants Officer, Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, 10 years
  • Vice President of Grant Programs, Palm Healthcare Foundation, 9 years
  • Director of Grants for nonprofits in South Florida, 9 years
  • Administered over $50 million in grants to 300+ organizations
  • Raised over $28 million to support arts, & culture, healthcare, and education
  • Serves as a Councilwoman in the Village of Royal Palm Beach since 2016

Riley, Trish

  • County: Alachua County

Bio:

County: Alachua

Bio

  • Founding Director, Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Channel and Festival; Publisher, www.GoGreenNation.org, an environmental news resource to help build sustainable communities, Gainesville
  • Environmental journalist and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business; The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living; and Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami & the Florida Keys: A Complete Guide
  • Past board member, American Society of Journalists and Authors, member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and honorary member of Golden Key International Honour Society

Furman, Andrew

  • County: Palm Beach County

Bio:

County: PalmBeach

Bio

  • Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
  • Author of several books, most recently the novels Jewfish (2020) and Goldens Are Here (2018), and the memoir, Bitten (2014)
  • PhD and MA, The Pennsylvania State University

Lillios, Anna

  • County: Orange County

Bio:

County: Orange

Bio

  • Professor of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
  • Author of The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (medalist, Florida Book Award, 2011)
  • Editor of The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature
  • Director of The Zora Neale Hurston Electronic Archive
  • Director, UCF World Writers Series (1986-97)
  • Member, Academics Committee, Town of Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Festival for the Arts and Humanities

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

Davich, Joe

  • County:

Bio:

Bio

  • Executive Director of the Georgia Center for the Book
  • Develops programs that promote literacy and the literary arts, support libraries, and preserve the literary heritage of Georgia
  • Has worked in the book industry since 1992 for Borders/Waldenbooks in West Virginia, and Chapter 11 Bookstores in Atlanta, Georgia.