Carol Frost’s twelve poetry collections include Pure, I Will Say Beauty, Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems, and Honeycomb, which received the gold medal in 2010 from the Florida Book Awards. Her essays on literature and aesthetics first published in Humanities and the New England Review are widely anthologized, as are her poems, most recently in In the Shape of the Human Body I am Visiting the Earth (Poetry International and McSweeney’s).  The National Endowment for the Arts, Poets’ Prize, Elliston Award and Pushcart Prize committees have honored her work.  Frost teaches at Rollins College, where as the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English she directs the college’s yearly literary Festival, Winter With the Writers. She also serves as a Chancellor for the Florida State Poets Association.  Her new collection, Alias City (Madhat Press), is due to be published in November, 2019.

Gianmarc Manzione is a poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Raritan, The Southeast Review and other journals. His poetry collection, “This Brevity,” was published by Parsifal Press in 2006, and his nonfiction book, “Pin Action: Small-Time Gangsters, High-Stakes Gambling and the Teenage Hustler Who Became a Bowling Champion,” was published by Pegasus Books in 2014 and subsequently optioned for film by Gold Circle Films. He earned an MFA from The New School in New York City and he has taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Tampa, the University of South Florida, and the College of Central Florida.