Meet Tim Gilmore and Andres Rojas, who will read in St. Pete at the Souteast Sister Cities Reading Tour on Saturday, March 17th from 3-5 p.m. at Community Cafe.  Additional writers’ bios to appear in Scribbles all this week. Stay tuned!

Tim Gilmore is the author of 15 books, creator of JaxPsychoGeo.com, and founder of JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival. His books include The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, about Isaiah Hart, the founder of Jacksonville, Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray’s Unholy Trinity, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, In Search of Eartha White and Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic. His poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 40 publications. His website, JaxPsychoGeo.com, contains around 400 stories of different Jacksonville locations. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida and teaches writing at Florida State College of Jacksonville.

Andres Rojas has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and is the author of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in Best New Poets, 2017, and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest. He is the current poetry editor at Compose, and blogs about writing at https://teoppoet.wordpress.com.