National Day on Writing Readings archive

Andrew Furman is the author, most recently, of Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (UFP, 2014). His work has appeared in such publications as Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Ecotone, Agni Online, JewishFiction.Net, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, Image, Tikkun, and the Miami Herald.

A writer and visual artist, Kate Schmitt has an MFA and a PhD from the University of Houston. Her lyric memoir Singing Bones won the 2013 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfction Book Award. Her work has been published in a number of anthologies, as well as the literary journals The Florida Review, Third Coast, The Texas Review, and New South, among others.

Mark Scroggins is a poet, biographer, and literary critic. His books of poetry are Red Arcadia (Shearsman, 2012), Torture Garden: Naked City Pastorelles (The Cultural Society, 2011), and Anarchy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002). He is the author of Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge (U of Alabama P, 1998) and The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). His graduate degrees in creative writing and literature are from Cornell University. His forthcoming book is titled Intricate Thicket: Some Late Modernist Poetries.