UCF ::::.7 •.. Book · •. Festival MORGRIDGE INTERNATIONAL READING CENTER APRIL 17, 2010 Welcome MORGRIDGE ~ 0 • I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to the University of C: ..• INTERNATIONAL Central Florida and the inaugural UCF Book Festival. n ...... : I hope you share the excitement about all that is taking place at UCF. Academics, athletics, research, teaching, cam READING CENTER pus life, and more await you when you enter our beautifully -n designed campus. From the arts to health care to optics and simulation - I hope you have the opportunity to ex The Morgridge International Reading perience all the great things UCF has to offer. Center was established to be a resource for those interested in UCF Stands for Opportunity: the art and science of teaching and The University of Central Florida is a metropolitan research university that reading. The center will collect and ranks as the 3rd largest in the nation with more than 53,500 students. UCF's first classes were offered in 1968. The university offers impressive academic and distribute the most successful reading research environments that power the region's economic development. UCF's culture of opportunity is driven by our diversity, Orlando environment, history of strategies being used internationally. entrepreneurship and our youth, relevance and energy.
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•• • •• • 0 Welcome Messages ...... 1-2 Festival Surveys & Book .... Festival Mailing List Sponsors ...... 3 1, Stop by the UCF Book Festival Information Booth and com •... • •-- •-: General Information ...... 5-7 plete the 2010 Festival Survey, and sign up to be on the mailing n At a Glance ...... 8 list for future events. 0 Children's Zone ...... 9 Medical Assistance and Emergency Exhibitors ...... 10- 11 Please notify a volunteer at the z How to Get Around Information Booth or contact Author Panels ...... 12-15 The UCF Arena and nearby any festival staff/volunteers or -I Psychology Building are easily on-duty police. UCF Campus Map ...... 16 navigated with signs that show all the presentation rooms and Presentation Rooms m the exhibit hall. You will find With more than 60 high caliber 2010Authors ...... 17-37 signs outside each presentation authors and poets in panel and room and throughout the two solo presentations, there are a z Book Signing Schedule ...... 38-39 buildings that list the schedule variety of things to see and hear and any last-minute changes. during the festival day. After -I 2010 Guest Panelists ...... 40 their presentations, authors will Parking be available to sign their books Park your vehicle in a proper at the Exhibit Hall Book Signing place - Parking Garage D or Booth in the UCF Arena (see The UCF Book Festival reserves the right to use any photograph/videography taken at schedule on page 38-39). Please the event without the expressed written permission of those included within the photograph Parking Lot D1 or D2. be courteous by turning off cell without any compensation for the use of such images. Photographs may be used in publica phones during presentations. tions or other media material produced, used or contracted by the UCF Book Festival Information Booth including but not limited to: view books, catalogues, search pieces, newspapers, magazines, The Information Booth is loca television, websites, etc. Any person desiring not to have their photo taken or distributed ted in the UCF Arena atrium. Book Signings must contact the event Information Desk where their photograph will be taken for use in Volunteers will assist you and Meet your favorite author at identification purposes and will be held in confidence by the UCF Book Festival. answer questions or give direc the Exhibit Hall Book Signing tions. Also, turn in your com Booth in the UCF Arena. Please The University of Central Florida is dedicated to promoting asustainable future for our students, JJ,© see the signing schedule on faculty and staff members, and the community that we support. To date, our combined efforts pleted festival survey, and find page 38-39. If you did not bring have made UCF a leader in sustainability and environmental awareness. To lessen the environ- out how you can become a your own books, make sure to mental impact of UCF, we printed this program on paper with FSC certification. FSC Friend to the UCF Book Festival.
Anril 1n 17 ?(),() 20,0 F Book Festival lnduqura1 Event buy your books at the Barnes & Children'szone Story Wall Accessibility Services Noble Booksellers Booth before Here you will find an exciting Add your sentence(s) to the The UCF Arena and Psychology standing in line to have an au children's program for all ages. Book Festival story located in Buildings are handicapped thor sign! We ask that you be • :: • • During the day there will be the UCF Arena atrium. Families, accessible. Please stop by the respectful of other enthusiasts .. readings by local celebrities, children, adults, authors and Information Booth in the UCF and keep your first trip through ~. Star Wars characters, and UCF students -you can become the Arena atrium if you need addi the line to a maximum of three student athletes and storytell author by contributing to the tional assistance. books for your favorite author • •z ing by the Oviedo Book Busters. 2010 Book Festival story entitled • to sign. Then, make your way ... •: 0 Nemours BrightStart!, a program "Become a KNIGHT Writer:' Concessions Stands to the back of the line for your ~ to put children on the road The final reading will be held at The UCF Arena's concessions C\ second turn! We appreciate the m :E to reading success, will host a 3:00 P.M. stands are located on the sec z 0:: courtesy! m 0 crafts area and character read ::x, LI. ond floor of the Arena and will :,::,, z Note: Carl Hiaasen, James ings. AND, Scholastic Books will Exhibitors be open from 9:00-5:00 P.M. r- ..J Grippando, Bob Morris, Billy be on hand with a wide The festival has more than 25 z ct .,, 0:: Collins Sheramy Bundrick, selection of books exhibitors selling books and 0 w Restrooms ::x, z and Greg Dawson will sign for purchase. book-related items in the Exhibit w Located in the UCF Arena on the s: C, books in the Psychology Hall. Exhibitors include book lower level and upper level. In ; Building Atrium after their sellers, publishers, appraisers, the Psychology Building, they 0z panels. See book signing and many non-profits that sup are located on the first floor. schedule on page 38-39. port reading and literacy. Please see a detailed listing of the Need Help? exhibitors on page 10-11. Ask a festival volunteer! Look for the volunteers in the black and The Children's Zone is Book Sales gold T-shirts. located in the far end of All book sales are handled in the Exhibit Hall. Please see dependently from the festival Lost Children through the Barnes and Noble the schedule on page 9. Children separated from their Booksellers Booth. Make sure to parents should go to the UCF buy your books before standing Book Festival Information Booth. in line for your favorite author to Parents are encouraged to show sign. their children the booth location when they arrive. For the safety ofyour child, we ask you do not leave your child SAVE THE DATE! alone. Enjoy the 2011 UCF BOOK FESTIVAL celebrity readings and other activities APRIL 16, 2011 WITH your child. bookfestival.ucf.edu
Ao•il 16· 17. 2010 201 0 UCF Book Festival lnauqural Evert , , • Book Festival hildren's zone ata GLANCE - connecting kids with books they want to read. • :: • • , .. ::.• 8:45am Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 1, The UCF Bqok estival presents a fun-filled children's program thi~ year with 9:00am - 5:30pm Exhibit Hall Opens readings by Star Wars Characters, UCF Student Athletes, the Oviedo Book • 1/ B~sters and other celebrities. • • 9:00am - 4:30pm Nemours BrightStart! Read Aloud/Crafts Plus, add a sentence(s) to "Become a KNIGHT Writer" on the UCF Book Festival 9:15-10:05 Special Session: Carl Hiaasen Story Wall lo~ated in the UCF Arena atrium. Children Activities: Readings by Star Wars To schedule your full day of activities, check the schedule below and those 9:30am - 5:00pm Characters, UCF Student Athletes, the Oviedo posted around the Arena for the full list of activities. Book Busters and other celebrities. 9:00-4:30 2:30-S:30 Jay Edwards (MIX 105.1 - CBS Radio 10:00am-11:00am Nemours BrightStart! Read Aloud/ May the Books Be With You; Read Personality) Crafts with a Star Wars Character Story Wall: Add your sentence(s) to "Become 10:00am-3:00pm a KNIGHTWriter"-families, children, adults, 10:00- 11 :00 3:00-3:4S authors and students. Jay Edwards (MIX 105.1 -CBS Radio Story Wall Reading Nemours BrightStart! Reading Readiness Personality) 10:00am - 4:00pm Screenings 11 :00-12:00 Author panels: Interact with authors as they Shoot, Kick, Read & Score! Read 10:30am-5:20pm discuss their works and learn about how they with UCF Athletes; Men's Soccer bring their characters and settings to life. and Women's Basketball Author Signing: Bring or buy a book and have 10:15am -5:00pm the author sign it. "Penguins, Clifford, and Caterpillars ... OH 11 :00am - 5:00pm MY!" Choose some great children's books to purchase from the Scholastic Book Fairs Booth. Special Session: Thoughts from a US Poet 12:00-12:30 1:00 - 1:5 0pm Laureate: Billy Collins NASA Educator Resource Center (reading, photos and walkabouts) Author Readings: Listen to poets, novelists and 1:00pm - 1:50pm other writers read excerpts from their work. 12:30-1:30 3:00pm-3:45pm Story Wall Reading UCF Theatre for Young Audiences Author Readings: Listen to poets, novelists and 4:30pm - 5:20pm other writers read excerpts from their work. 1:30-2:30 Oviedo Book Busters 5:30pm Exhibit Hall Closes " .
/ April 16-17,2010 1n1 n I U'~ a..,...,.1,, ~ac:• iv,,:al In,,,,.,, ,r:.I l=",:,nt Exhibitors Exhibitors Book Trust Florida Publishing Association, • (970) 419-8202 Inc. • •• • mcoffi [email protected] 863-647-5951 ::.+ www.FLbookpub.org Orlando Sentinel Capricorn Endeavors, Inc. (407) 420-5000 II • (407) 283-0998 J BHeart www.orlandosentinel.com •• ,.· • www.AbigailArrington.com (407) 679-6142 ••: Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia CCI www.jbheart.net 0 C.H. Publishing Initiative 0 (407) 614-5196 Lake-Sumter Community (877) 878-3118 'Tl The UCF Book Festival "m www.chpublishing.org College www.nemours.org II\ values the exhibitors who ::! (352) 435-5931 ;; are participating today. Dancing Lilies Press www.businessresourcescenter.org Peoples First Baptist Church r- Please stop by their booths (917) 720-2485 m (407) 312-1904 X to learn about their www.dancingliliespress.com Leedy's Books www.zioncastle.blogspot.com ::c products and purchase CCI (407) 898-0816 -I a memento. Saw Palm/Sweet 0 DARE Books [email protected] :x, (407) 673-3273 (315) 591-4707 "' www.darebooks.com Literary Threads www.sukrungruang.com (904) 557-3479 Acorn Teaching Solutions, Inc. Doug Wylie www.literarythreads.com The BATH POND Series (407) 951-2702 (770) 722-5853 (407) 876-2377 www.snaptersreading.com [email protected] Mary Greenwood www.LowellTeal.com (786) 897-3366 Adult Literacy League, Inc. Early Learning Coalition of www.howtonegotiatelikeapro. University of Doglando 407-422-1540 Orange County blog spot.com 407-574-3160 www.adultliteracyleague.org (407) 259-2464 www.universityofdoglando.com www.elcoc.org Middleway Press Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. (310) 309-3208 University Press of Florida (352) 622-1825 FDLRS Technology State Loan www.middlewaypress.com (352) 392-1351 www.atlantic-pub.com Library www.upf.com (407) 320-2380 Lighthouse Books Books by Coco www.fdlrs-tsll.scps.kl2.fl.us www.oldfloridabookstore.com Usborne Books & More (352) 803-5359 (904) 230-9929 www.booksbycoco.com First Ventures Press Orange County Reading Council www.UsborneForMe.com (352) 207-4865 (321) 297-3879 www.loretrilogy.com orangecountyreadingcouncil.org
An.ril 1h 17 lr\1f"\ 1111n ln::1111n11r;1,I J:\/on"t • • • AUTHOR PANELS All the panels are in the UCF Psychology Building, and the UCF Venue. See page 16 for UCF Campus Map. Seats are limited, so make sure you arrive early.
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•• •: Telling Stories: Ha- Ha-Hallelujah: High School Survival Guide > for Teachers, Parents, and Adding the Action Humor and Faith C -t Students Deborah and Joel Shlian, Peter Mark Pinsky, Shellie Tomlinson :I: Telep Cypress A 0 Mike Buchanan, Diane Lang, ~ Robert Lipsyte Psychology 105 ~ Carl Hiaasen Psychology 111 z Who Ami? 1:00-1:50 m Special Session r- Literary Characters Search for 111 Psychology 108 Stories, Secrets and Subterfuge Answers John Dufresne, Susan Hubbard Ru Freeman, Bernice McFadden Cypress A Psychology 106 10:30-11 :20 Barnes and Noble Cafe Adventures in Children's Dragons, Healers, and Teens, In their own voices with: Books Oh My! Youth in Fantasy • Mike Buchanan • Diane Lang Loreen Leedy, Marjory Worlds • Pat Duggins Panel Session I Wentworth Bryan Davis, Janice Hardy • Shellie Tomlinson Shifting Sands: Cypress B Psychology 111 Florida Then and Now Robert Cassanello, Pat Duggins, David Warner 11 :45-12:35 Psychology 108
Mysterious Women: Characters of Intrigue Julie Wray Herman, Deborah and Panel Session II Dancing Lilies Press Joel Shlian, Kit Sloane Murder and Mayhem in Psychology 105 Florida Children's Book James Grippando, Bob Morris Publisher Super Foods-Super Body Psychology 108 Steven Pratt www.dancingliliespress.com Psychology 106
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:··· 1:00-1 :50 2:15-3:05 Building Leaders: The Puppet Masters II Practical and Moral Tips Graphic Novels with No • • Robert Ford, Stephen Sloane, Strings Attached "'_, • • •: w Woody Woodward Van Jensen, Robert Venditti z > Cypress B CypressA&B C: f -t er: Panel Session Ill Panel Session IV :c 0 0 :c Thoughts from a US Poet Reliving History: Stories of ::c .... Laureate Struggle and Hope 3:30-4:20 4:30 - 5:20 ::::, ~ < Billy Collins Sheramy Bundrick, Greg Dawson z m Psychology 708 Psychology 708 r V\ Realms of the Future: Walking On Eggshells - Great Sci Fi Treading the Path of Civil PanelV Panel IV Brian Evenson, James O'Neal, Ann Rights Jerusalem Jones and A 'Novel' Concept: the Blood Kin of Jesus and Jeff VanderMeer Batt Humphreys, Rodney Hurst, Nuts And Bolts of Writing Psychology 705 Richard Lapchick Ken Hanson and Publishing Psychology 705 Psychology 708 John Dufresne, Ann and Joel Choices and Challenges of Youth VanderMeer Sharon M. Draper Even Saints Have Dark Nights: Aftershocks: Psychology 706 Psychology 706 Mysteries of the Anti-Hero The Poetry of Recovery for Thomas B. Cavanagh, Julie Life-Shattering Events Reading from London Educational Reform: Compton, James O'Born Tom Lombardo, Susan Meyers, Satyendra Srivastava Change and Challenge Psychology 706 Satyendra Srivastava, Marjory Psychology 705 Paul Peterson, Julie Young Wentworth Psychology 77 7 Gifts and Revelations: Psychology 705 The Poetry of Kelle Groom 4:30 - 5:20pm The Columbia Restaurant: Coming to America: and Michael Hettich Journeys of Identity Kelle Groom, Michael Hettich Celebrating a Century of Elizabeth Nunez, Cecilia Psychology 77 7 History, Culture, and Cuisine Rodrfguez Milanes Andy Huse, Richard Gonzmart Barnes and Noble Cafe Cypress A Clashes In Culture and Love Psychology 706 In their own voices with: Preston L. Allen, Ann Hood • Greg Dawson Inspiration and Insights Cypress A Real Life Murder Then and Now Laura Hope-Gill, Kristy Kiernan Peter Hancock, Mark Pinsky • Laura Hope-Gill Cypress B Psychology 77 7 • Richard Lapchick • Cecilia Rodrfguez Milanes
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II UCF BOOK FESTIVAL • ...I Arena, Bookstore and •• .· •• • ;; • • •: i= Psychology Buildings VI w . u. . • UCF BOOK FESTIVAL !ill:: . Designated Parking: 0 2810 0 . Garage D, D1, and D2 a:i u. u :::> ...0 0 N Aut w J: t- Cz :::> 0 Preston L. Allen, a recipient of a State of Florida a: Individual Artist Fellowship, is the author of the ct critically acclaimed novel All Or Nothing (Akashic) z"" and the award-winning collection Churchboys i= And Other Sinners (Carolina Wren Press). His I- w stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and have been anthologized in "" Brown Sugar (Penguin), Miami Nair (Akashic), and Las Vegas Nair (Akashic). His newest book, Jesus Boy, is due out in April, 2010.
Mike Buchanan and Diane Lang (Lang Buch anan) began writing together during the 2000 University of Iowa Writer Workshops. Their first novel, Micah's Child, became a featured romance novel in Barnes and Noble while receiving a nomi . nation as Georgia Novel of the Year. Their latest . novel, The Fat Boy Chronicles, tells the story of an obese 9th grader struggling to find his way in our thin-obsessed society. Adapted into a screenplay • by the team in 2009, the movie began filming this past July and is scheduled for theatres in 2010.
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. . Sheramy Bundrick is an art historian and +:. • professor at the University of South Florida St. •.:: + Petersburg. She grew up in the Atlanta area, where she earned her Ph.D. from Emory University, and • spent a year in New York as a research fellow at • + The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The author of scholarly publications in the field of ancient art yet ..... longtime lover ofVincentVan Gogh, Shera my tries 0 her hand at historical fiction with Sunflowers. -0 ,,nC a, Robert Cassanello's research interests include 0 0 Social History, Southern History, Race, Gender, ,,,::: and Historiography. He has published exten m sively on issues around race, social and southern A story of a group of so called nerds learn ::!"' history, including two books: Migration and the sometimes you need a little evidence in order Transformation of the Southern Workplace since ;;,.. to convict the guilty. 7945 (University Press of Florida, 201 O), and Flor l> C ida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on -t Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to ::c 0 the New Immigration (University Press of Florida, ::it! 2009). "'
Thomas B. Cavanagh has won a Florida Book Award Gold Medal, been nominated for a Best Novel Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America, received a starred review from Library Journal, and had a novel named as a "Killer Book" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Asso ciation. In reviews of his novels, Tom has been compared to Hiaasen, Connelly, MacDonald, West One is a new twist to the legend of vampires lake, Abrahams, and Robert B. Parker. Put all those and the other filled with exorcism and evil entities in comparisons into hat, shake them up, and you get a fight between good and evil! Also look for a sense of his writing style. Tom is the author of Murder/and, Head Games, and Prodigal Son, the Miss Ela noire Bud and The Keepers of the Roses! last two of which featured cynical Orlando private investigator Mike Garrity and his "sidekick;' a brain www.booksbycoco.com tumor named Bob. Tom lives in Central Florida with his family. Tom lives in Central Florida with his family. P.O. BOX 771087 Ocala, FL 34477-1087
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• • • : • Billy Collins, appointed United States Poet Greg Dawson is a columnist for the Orlando _.:. Laureate 2001-2003 is an American phenomenon. Sentinel. He has worked for newspapers in a His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals I-, ,. _·_ , ·• ·_ 111.. _·,_ variety of writing positions since his high school ...... \. I -,, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and ...... days in Bloomington, Indiana. He has written II The American Scholar. Collins has published eight ~ everything from sports to editorials, lifestyle, • •. . VI collections of poetry, including Questions About television, local and state commentary and now a: . •. < Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, consumer affairs. Writing his first book, Hiding in 0 , ~, 11,J ::c Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, Sailing the Spotlight, tapped into a deep reservoir of still 0 1- ... ::, Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, water holding the secrets of his mother's coura 0 ct Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other geous journey of survival. Stirring those memo C: -I n Poems, and Ballistics. A collection of his haiku, ries released Zhanna from the past and led to her .,, ~ titled She Was Just Seventeen, was published in son's deep appreciation of not only her story, but CCI j:: 0 II\ w 2006. the stories of all who suffered the unimaginable 0 LI. in World War II. .,, :::.:: "m 0 Julie Compton is the internationally published VI 0 author of the critically acclaimed legal thriller Tell Sharon M. Draper is a professional educator -t C0 as well as an accomplished writer. She has been LI. No Lies, and her second book, Rescuing Olivia, a ;; u r- ::, novel of psychological suspense. An attorney by honored as the National Teacher of the Year, is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary > 0 profession, she most recently worked as a trial C: ... -t 0 attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, but Award, and is a New York Times best-selling N ::c gave up law to pursue writing full-time when her author. She is the published author of numerous 0 articles, stories, and poems, as well as Copper :ti family moved to Florida in 2003. She lives in Long VI wood with her husband and two daughters. Sun November Blues, Just Another Hero, Out of my Mind, Fire from the Rock, the Ziggy and Sassy series, as well as many more titles.
Bryan Davis is the author of the best-selling Dragons in Our Midst and Oracles of Fire series, John Dufresne has won the Yankee Magazine a contemporary-fantasy blend for young people. award for fiction, the Transatlantic Review/Henfield His book Eye of the Oracle hit number one on the Foundation Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Young Adult CBA best-seller list in January 2007. award. He is the author of short story collec His newest series from Zondervan Publishers, tions such as The Way That Water Enters Stone; Dragons of Starlight, releases in April 2010 with chapter-books Lethe, Cupid, Time and Love; Well Enough Alone; and the novels Love Warps the the title Starlighter, a unique twist on the dragons/ ) fantasy genre. The series will include four books Mind a Little, Deep in the Shade of Paradise, and for young adults. most recently, Requiem, Mass. He is a Professor in the Masters in Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami. His book on writing the novel, Is Life Like This? is just out from W.W. Norton.
Aoril 16-17,2010 2010 UCF Book Festival Inaugural E.vent • • • • • Pat Duggins is news director at Alabama Public Ru Freeman was born into a family of writers Radio. His first book about the space program is and many boys in Sri Lanka. She arrived in the Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space United States with a Parker ink pen and a box of Shuttle Program. His latest book, Trailblazing Staedler pencils to attend Bates College in Maine. Mars: NASA's Next Giant Leap, is due out in 2010. She has worked in humanitarian assistance and • • VI He covered over one hundred space shuttle workers' rights. Her political writing has appeared a:: missions for National Public Radio, starting with in English and in translation. Her creative work 0 f N ...J: the 1986 Challenger accident. Pat has spoken has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Story 0.... :) about his book at Harvard University and on Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, WriteCorner Press, 0 cC (-Span's BookTV program. and Kaduwa and has been nominated for the Best C: ...I n New American Voices anthologies. Her debut ,, ~ ~ j:: novel, A Disobedient Girl, will also be published 0 Ill Brian Evenson is the author of nine books of • w in six languages. She calls both Sri Lanka and 0 u. fiction, most recently the novel Last Days and the America home and writes about the people and ,, ::.:: story collection, Fugue State. His novel, The Open "m 0 countries underneath her skin. 0 Curtain (Coffee House Press), was a finalist for an "'-t al Edgar Award and an IHG Award and was one of u. James Grippando is the bestselling author Time Out New York's top books of 2006. He lives ~ u of sixteen novels of suspense from HarperCollins r- :) and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he > 0 including Money to Burn, Intent to Kill, Born to C: ... directs Brown University's Literary Arts Program. -t 0 Run, Last Call, Lying with Strangers, Got the Look, N J: Hear No Evil, and The Pardon, many of them part 0 :::10 of his Jack Swyteck series. He is also the author of a thrillerforyounger readers, Leapholes (ABA), and "' Robert Ford, is a Professor of Management at the in 2006 contributed a short story to the acclaimed University of Central Florida. His widely used text, Thriller collection. Managing the Guest Experience in Hospitality, is a pioneering resource for enabling organiza tions to adapt Disney-based practices to create a Kelle Groom's poetry has appeared in The New fun and satisfying guest experience. Along with Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry among other his co-authors (including John Newstrom), he magazines, and is forthcoming in Best American conducted a major research study on fun at work Poetry 2010, guest edited by Amy Gerstler for the Society for Human Resource Management (Scribner, 2010). Her collections include Five (SHRM), and has published numerous articles and Kingdoms (Anhinga Press, 2010), Luckily, winner papers on the subject. The Fun Minute Manager of a Florida Book Award, and Underwater City is an easy-to-read business fable. (University Press of Florida, 2004). She has been a writer-in-residence at Millay Colony for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Anril 1 f,_ 17 )010 )010 F • • Julie Wray Herman lives on a small farm outside • : • Peter Hancock is a Professor of Psychology and a faculty member of the Institute for Simulation and Houston, Texas, with a multitude of animals, a • Training at the University of Central Florida. He is large garden and her husband. While Julie hasn't an award-winning scientist and historian who is actually buried anyone in her garden, she has
particularly interested in real-world mysteries. always found gardening to be a good way to work • •.;, . . 11'1 His current book Richard Ill and the Murder in the off frustration, anxiety and chocolate chip cookies. cc: Tower exemplifies this concern with a search for She is the author of the Three Dirty Women, •· ·. 0 :::c the truth of the last Plantagenet King of England. Landscaping, Inc. mystery series, the first of which 0 I "'... ::, was nominated for Best First Mystery for both the 0
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• • Ann Hood is the bestselling author of 11 novels, Batt Humphreys began a television news career • :. • including The Knitting Circle, and two memoirs, in Charleston in the early 1980s that took him ·: including Comfort: My Journey Through Grief. She to CBS News in New York. As senior producer .• for most of his 15 years th e, he managed the had published award-winning stories and essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tin coverage of many of the ev ts that ave shaped 11'1 House, The Paris Review, and many other places. our lives over the st quar ry, · c g a: the first hours of e eve s tai::tM.e,.-rl, 2001, 0 Her new novel, The Red Thread, is new out this IV :::c spring from WW Norton. 0 I ... ::, hurricanes, ex 0 C ~_, cares to reme ,..,.,.,,, ...,...,_ n based on a tr ,, ~ cg 1- 0 11'1 Laura Hope-Gill is the Director of The Healing Rodney Hurst is a civil rights activist and former 0 w ;,;:: u. Seed, engaging individuals and groups in Jacksonville City Councilman. In addition to his ,, ::i' boosting creativity. She also produces Asheville involvement in the civil rights movement and m 0 VI 0 Wordfest, a poetry festival presenting poetry as serving two four-year terms on the Jacksonville -I a:I citizen journalism. Her book The Soul Tree: Poems Florida City Council, Hurst is responsible for a u. ~ and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians, number of "firsts" in the Jacksonville Community r- u :r:,, ::::, a collaboration with photographer John Fletcher including being one of the initial national recipi 0 C ... Jr., is rooted in her work with sacred texts and ents of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -I 0 :::c N alchemy. An NC Arts Fellow in Creative Nonfic Television Fellowships. It Was Never About A Hot 0 Cincinnati ::0 tion, her writings have appeared in the Dog And A Coke®! documents that history, that VI Review and the North Carolina Literary Review, courage, and the social and political climate of among others. Jacksonville, Florida during those days.
Susan Hubbard is the author of seven books, Andy Huse has a keen interest in Florida history, including The Society of S (2007) and The Year oral history, restaurants, and cuisine. In 2001, he of Disappearances (2008). Her new novel, co-authored Seabreeze by the Bay Cookbook, and The Season of Risks, is set for release in 2010. has written for a variety of publications. Huse Hubbard's short story collection, Blue Money, won is a popular speaker on Florida foodways and the Janet Heidinger Kakfa Prize in 1999 for best authored The Columbia Restaurant: Celebrating book of prose by an American woman. Her first a Century of History, Culture, and Cuisine. He book, Walking on Ice, received the Association of is presently researching a statewide history of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Short Fiction restaurants in Florida. He lives in Tampa, where Prize. Hubbard co-edited 100% Pure Florida he cooks and writes, sometimes simultaneously. Fiction, an anthology of contemporary stories set in Florida. Her short fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Mississippi Review, Ploughshares, and other journals.
/1,n,il 1,;_17 Jn10 2010 UCF Book Festival lnauaural Event • • Alison Jackson has been a children's librarian for • :. • Diane Lang and Michael Buchanan (Lang Buch thirty years and an author for nearly twenty. Her anan) began writing together during the 2000 books range from pre-school holiday favorites, University of Iowa Writer Workshops. Their first -_. >···:If&.-~.- . such as I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie novel, Micah's Child (2006), became a featured '~ . f ·~ . and The Ballad of Valentine, to novels for older romance novel in Barnes and Noble while II readers, including the award-winning Rainmaker receiving a nomination as Georgia Novel of the ' "'a: .,...., . • • •: 0 and Desert Rose and Her Highfalutin Hog. She Year. Their latest novel, The Fat Boy Chronicles, --.·· l ~ IV ::c currently works at the Seminole County Public th I tells the story of an obese 9 grader struggling to ....0 ::, Library and is busy writing her twelfth book for find his way in our thin-obsessed society. Adapted ~.n!- ~ .. .. . ; 0
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Loreen Leedy is the author-illustrator of over 35 Bernice McFadden is the author of six critically ••: • • .. picture books for children. Her Missing Math: A acclaimed novels, including Sugar and Nowhere ••• •• Number Mystery won the bronze medal for Chil Is a Place, a Washington Post Best Fiction title for dren's Literature in the 2008 Florida Book Awards. 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/ Wright Legacy II Her other titles include Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Award finalist for fiction, as well as the recipient •.. . VI Story, Measuring Penny and The Shocking Truth of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. ••: cc: About Energy. She lives in Central Florida with her Her sophomore novel, The Warmest December, 0 N :I:: husband Andrew Schuerger. was praised by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni 0 .... -' :::::, Morrison as "searing and expertly imagined:' 0
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•• • Mark Pinsky is probably best known as the •• • Elizabeth Nunez is a City University of New ._...... author of the bestselling The Gospel According •.-....,. York Distinguished Professor and an award winning author of seven novels, including Anna to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's In-Between and Prospero's Daughter (both New Most Animated Family. He is also author of The York Times Editors' Choice), and Bruised Hibiscus Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust and •.. : (American Book Award). She is coeditor with Pixie Dust and A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A "'a: ··. Jennifer Sparrow of the anthology Stories from Guide for the Perplexed, as well as the co-author • 0 ~ J: Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at of The Gospel According to The Simpsons Leader's 0 I ... ::> Home and Abroad. Nunez is executive producer Guide for Group Study, which was just released 0 cc of the 2004 NY Emmy-nominated CUNY TV series in an updated edition. From 1995 until 2008, C ..I n cc Black Writers in America. Pinsky covered religion for the Orlando Sentinel, .,, > following a ten-year stint as staff writer for the Los C0 I- 0 James O'Neal is an award-winning author and Angeles Times. 0 "'w ;:ii.: LI. career law enforcement officer. Writing exten .,, ::Ill:: Steven Pratt is the best-selling author of Super m 0 sively about Florida history, in books like the Burn V, 0 Zone, O'Neal uses his experience and research to FoodsRx and SuperFoods HealthStyle. He teaches :::! £10 construct a future scenario that features social, that if your "tank" is filled with the right foods, LI. ~ u rather than technological, changes. The first book you can increase your chances of living a longer, r- ::::> > 0 in his series, The Human Disguise, won critical healthier life. Dr. Pratt also stresses that while diet C ... praise. His second book in the series, The Double and exercise are important, total health is achieved -t 0 J: N Human, is due for release in the summer of 2010. by a network of efforts, sleep and stress manage ,.,0 James O'Neal is a pseudonym for crime novelist ment can have just as much impact on one's daily V, James 0. Born. health and functioning. He is senior staff ophthal mologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Paul Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor California. of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes was born in New University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institu Jersey to Cuban parents. She studied writing with tion at Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Isaac Singer at the University of Miami and with Education Next, a journal of opinion and research. Toni Morrison at the State University of New York Mr. Peterson is the author of the forthcoming book at Albany where she earned a Doctorate of Arts. Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual She teaches Latino/a literature and writing at the Learning (Harvard University Press, 2010). University of Central Florida. Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles shares the joys, tragedies and amazing resiliency of the Cuban immigrants who arrived in this country via the Mariel boat lift of 1980 (Marielitos) and the "rafters" (Balseros), who came years after.
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Stephen B. Sloane is a professor of Political . ... Deborah Shlian practiced medicine in a large . multi-specialty group before returning to UCLA Science and Public Administration at Saint Mary's ::. • for her MBA. She lives with her husband, Joel, College of California. He is a graduate ofThe U.S. co-author of Rabbit in the Moon, which won the Naval Academy and served as a faculty member at Gold Medal for the Florida Book Award. Her new Harvard University, where he conducted a study V'I novel, Dead Air, co-authored with Linda Reid, is of military professionalism as a John F. Kennedy ~ Graduate School of PublicAdministration Research 0 the first in a new medical thriller series starring l: Sammy Greene, a radio talk show host. Fellow, and The University of California, Berkeley 0"' I ... => (MA, Ph.D.). Gold Stripe on a Jackass: The Quest 0 C ct for Moral Efficiency is the narrative of a thirty-year n ..J journey in the Navy. -n ~ g:, 0 .:: 0 "'w Joel Shlian is a physician, medical consul Satyendra Srivastava was born in Azamgarh, ,r::: u. tant/executive recruiter, author of numerous Uttar Pradesh, India. He studied at the University -n ~ m 0 non-fiction articles and books as well as three of Poona and the University of London, where he V'I 0 published novels - all co-written with his wife, received his Ph.D. in History. With many published ::! IXI u. Deborah. His first two novels, Double Illusion and collections of poetry in Hindi, as well as plays for ~ u r- ::> Wednesday's Child, have won rave reviews. His the stage and radio, he has also been a columnist > latest novel, Rabbit in the Moon, is in hardback for various Indian publications. His collections C 0... -t 0 and on Kindle and has won numerous awards of poetry published in English include Talking l: N 0 including the Florida Book Award's Gold Medal for Sanskrit to Fallen Leaves, Between Thoughts, :a:, Genre Fiction, the Silver Medal for Mystery Book Another Silence and his most recent work, Sir of the Year, and an lndie Excellence Award. Winston Churchill Knew My Mother, from which "' selections have been included in the anthology Aftershocks. Kit Sloane is the author of seven Margot O'Banion and Max Skull mysteries-offbeat stories that chronicle the intricacies of Hollywood filmmaking Peter Telep received the majority of his education from the point of view of her protagonist, feature in New York, before moving to Los Angeles, where film editor Margot O'Banion. Her latest book he worked for such television shows as In the is The Fat Lady Sings. The first fiction editor of Heat of the Night and The Legend of Prince Valiant. Futures Magazine from 1996-1998, she is a long Returning east to Florida, he earned his under time member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers graduate and graduate degrees at the University of America, and Mystery Women of the UK. A of Central Florida and now teaches composition, graduate of Mills College, Oakland, CA, Kit was scriptwriting, and creative writing courses at his named one of Mills College's Literary Women. alma mater. His most recent novels are The Fall of Eden, a post-apocalyptic thriller written under the penname Richard Michaels, as well as Direct Action and Critical Action, the first two in a series of books following the exploits of U.S. Special Forces teams operating in Afghanistan.
April 16-1 /, 2010 2010 UCF Book Festival ln,Hw.ir;il FvPnt • • Shellie Tomlinson, author, speaker, newspaper Robert Venditti is the author of the New York • :. • and magazine columnist, and Belle of All Things Times best-selling graphic novel The Surrogates, ··· :+ Southern has been entertaining audiences on the the motion picture adaptation of which was radio, TV, and web in a full out celebration of the released in September 2009. Other works include II charm and heritage of the South. Her first release, The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone, The Homeland • V\ Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On, was Directive, and the forthcoming graphic noveliza a: tion of The Lightning Thief for Hyperion. 0 chosen as a SIBA Nonfiction Book of the Year finalist. IV :::c Shellie and her husband Phil are empty nesters and 0 I ... :, obnoxious new grandparents living with a spoiled 0
UCF Exhibit Hall Psychology Atrium
Ann & Jeff Paul Peterson & I ~ ~ I Carl Hiaasen J VanderMeer Julie Young g 6 ~ [ Brian Evenson Elizabeth Nunez .- ~ ~ Sharon M. Draper Cecilia Rodriguez I g I Robert Cassanello N Kristy Kiernan Milanes ~ ..S Pat Duggins
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Batt Humphreys Thomas B. Cavanagh I E James Grippando Rodney Hurst Julie Compton ~ c. B b M · P II -::t: ~ o oms 1 C.E reston A en Robert Ford ,-N ,-":"-: ~ o Ann Hood Stephen Sloane ,.:,.; ~ Kelle Groom Richard Lapchick I d, [ I Billy Collins Michael Hettich James O'Neal I ~ ~ 'Woody' Woodward ~ 1 c. I Greg Dawson Andy Huse & Robert Venditti Shera my Bundrick 1 E I I ~ ~ ~ c. Richard Gonzmart Tom Lombardo t'Y"'I ~ ~ Peter Hancock Susan Meyers I [ I Ken Hanson ~ Van Jensen Marjory Wentworth 1 ~ ~ Satyendra Srivastava "'-l'" v-i (Psychology 705)
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• • • •• • 2010 Guest Panelists KNIGHTS PLAZA -:.+ S'OMETHING'S ALWAYS HAPPENING • Richard Gonzmart's education in Julie Young pioneered the food preparation began when he launch of Florida Virtual School was born. He is the great-grandson with the goal of providing high of Casimiro Hernandez, Sr., the quality, online courses to students founder of the world-famous throughout the State of Florida. Columbia Restaurant in Tampa's That vision has resulted in Florida Historic Ybor City. The Columbia Virtual School's becoming the was founded in 1905 and is the largest provider of Internet-based oldest restaurant in Florida, and the courseware and instruction for largest Spanish restaurant in the middle and high school students in world. Florida and around the globe.
His practical experience in the food Ms. Young began her career as a industry began at the early age classroom teacher, and has since of 12, when he started spending served as an administrator and summers as an apprentice cook leading e-Learning expert and in the Columbia kitchen. After advocate. Today, as President and high school, he continued at the Chief Executive Officer, she directs University of Denver School of the work of more than 1000 faculty Hotel and Restaurant Management and administrators, courseware and attended the University of developers, web design specialists Madrid, Escuela de Hostelerfa. He and technology support personnel. is now president of the Columbia She is a frequent national confer Restaurant Group, which includes ence speaker, and has played an six Columbia Restaurants, one important role in charting the Columbia Cafe, and two Cha Cha course of virtual K-12 education. Coconuts, a tropical bar and grill. Under Ms. Young's leadership, Richard will join Andy Huse on the Florida Virtual School has been panel The Columbia Restaurant: recognized for its work by the Celebrating a Century of History, National School Boards Association Culture, and Cuisine. and the Canadian Association for Distance Education.
Julie will join Dr. Paul Peterson on the panel: Educational Reform: Change and Challenge.
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