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Terri Bailey

Literature: Fiction; Literature: Poetry; Spoken Word

I am a woman who loves her ancestry, spirituality, womanhood, culture, community, and heritage. My poetry and stories reflect my life and the lives of those I love. I am a community educator and activist, as well as an advocate for women’s self-care. I am the founder of the Bailey Learning and Arts Collective, Inc and the newly formed Queens Room – a virtual she shed promoting self-care, self-love, and empowerment for women through self-care plan creation, Writing to Heal workshops, Wellness Workshops and articles and resources that promote self-care.

Chris Bodor

Literature: Poetry

Chris Bodor left his New York City job of ten years and moved to Saint Augustine, Florida in the summer of 2003. In New York he was known as the “Train of Thought Commuter”, because of the volumes of poetry that he composed in hand written notebooks while traveling to and from work. With a commute shortened from three hours to three minutes in Florida, Bodor began the arduous task of reinventing himself. In August of 2009 he started up the Ancient City Poets and launched a once a month poetry reading series that still gathers to this day. Since 1995 he has maintained his own publishing imprint, Poet Plant Press, with his wife, Mary Beth. Chris is the Editor-In-Chief of the international literary journal, AC PAPA, which stands for Ancient City Poets, Authors, Photographers and Artists.

Lance Carden

Literature; Literature: Drama; Literature: Non-Fiction; Literature: Poetry; Theatre

Lance Carden moved to St. Augustine, Florida, in 2014, after a writing and editing career at The Christian Science Monitor. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon (emphasis on playwriting). His first book, Witness: An Oral History of Black Politics in Boston, 1920 to 1960, was published by Boston College in 1989. In 2013, he and his wife, Charlene Vincent, published Tuscan Retreat, a book of poetry written during a long visit to Italy. In 2015, he published another book of poems titled City of Lions, A Poet’s Guide, celebrating the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine. In October of 2018, A Classic Theatre (ACT) gave a successful staged reading of his play Democracy & its Demise in St. Augustine. Spiritual Exercise, the latest of his books of poetry was published by Wipf and Stock Publishers in September, 2019.

Chris Kastle

Folk Art: Puppetry; Folk Art: Storytelling; Literature; Literature: Children's; Literature: Fiction; Literature: Non-Fiction; Literature: Poetry; Music; Music: Composition; Music: Vocal; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Photography

As a professional touring musician and storyteller, songsmith, author, artist, and educator for half a lifetime, Chris Kastle has performed throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. As a recording artist, and part of a duo, she has released 12 critically acclaimed CDs and a DVD and recently, three solo CDs of music and spoken word. In 2015 Chris was the recipient of the Annette J. Bruce Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Storytelling Association. In May of 2016 she posted a video of her song, El Faro, in memory of the crew. As an educator, she worked as the Director of Education at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum, an instructor for the Inland Seas Education Association, a Visiting Professor at Governors State University, Community Educator for Friends of A1A Scenic & Historic Coastal Byway, has done a myriad of educational residencies, and is currently on the faculty at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and a Teaching Artist for VSA Florida. As an author, she has penned articles for maritime publications and been a contributing author in a maritime history anthology published by Claremont Press. She has many original short stories to her credit and, most recently, was the author/illustrator of a new children’s book, Dolly the Decorator Crab, inspired by her work as a teaching artist for VSAFL and also From the Icy Fingers of the Deep, a book of short, scary, sea stories that received five stars in Goodreads.com. As a visual artist, Chris has helped students of many ages and abilities to create personal and collaborative artwork such as watercolor, sculpture, collage, set design, and puppets. Her individual work has been displayed alongside that of her students at the Cummer Museum of Arts and Gardens and by the Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts. As an arts administrator, advocate, and producer, she is the Executive Director of Common Times, the folk-arts organization that presented the “Chicago Maritime Festival” and the “Chinquapin Folk Music and Storytelling Festival” and has served on the boards of the Florida Storytelling Association (Past President) and the Tale Tellers of St. Augustine (Secretary, Past President). She is a one-time Tall Ship sailor from Chicago who has found a new home in St. Augustine, the nation’s oldest port city, and is enjoying the best of the old world and the new!

Frances Keiser

Literature; Literature: Children's; Literature: Fiction; Literature: Non-Fiction; Literature: Poetry; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration; Visual Arts: Other

Frances Keiser has been designing and publishing books for over 20 years and is a faculty member of the University of North Florida Department of Continuing Education teaching publishing-related classes. She is a multi award-winning author, artist, and craftsman. A 25-year resident of St. Augustine, Keiser is also a University of Florida Master Naturalist and writes the weekly Backyard Adventures column for The St. Augustine Record. She is married to award-winning artist and illustrator, Hugh Keiser.

Amy Lauer Goldin

Literature: Drama; Literature: Poetry; Theatre: Other; Theatre: Technical

Amy Lauer Goldin is a transplant to St Augustine from Miami Fl, where the colorful mix of cultures informed much of her previous writing. Relocating in 2014, the cultural shift to North Florida has injected new perspective and inspiration into her poetry and playwriting, much of it based on social and political satire and observation. Amy’s particular bent is holding up a mirror to reflect the times and ourselves, although in many cases it is a fun-house mirror. In July of 2019 her Summer Shorts Variety Show included a running sketch entitled Shrink Rap, a social satire which engendered such positive reviews that it is now being revived as a full-length play, including new scenes and additional characters. It is projected to open in early 2020. Amy continues to be an active member of Ancient City Poets, and conducts a weekly poetry workshop at a local center for addiction and mental health treatment. Her discovery of the therapeutic nature of poetry stems from her experience working with women in the Homestead Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison in South Florida.

Dr. Ann Browning Masters

Literature; Literature: Poetry

Ann Browning Masters is the author of Floridanos, Menorcans, Cattle-Whip Crackers: Poetry of St. Augustine, published by the Florida Historical Society. Poetry from this collection has been published in anthologies and journals, read at literary and historical conferences, read in the Eckerd College Road Scholar Program, recognized at the Florida Folk Festival, and recorded for the Florida State Historical Archives. In 2015 she was knighted by the St. Augustine Easter Festival for her dedication in promoting St. Augustine’s Spanish heritage. A St. Augustine native, she is a 12th generation Floridian.

Lauren Tivey

Literature: Poetry

Lauren Tivey is the author of four chapbooks, most recently Moroccan Holiday, which was the winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2019, and The Breakdown Atlas & Other Poems (Big Table Publishing Company, 2011). She received her undergraduate degree in Poetry and Literature from Granite State College, and her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she was the recipient of the Jack Myers Grant for Outstanding Poetry. Tivey is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her work has appeared in Connotation Press, The Coachella Review, and Split Lip Magazine, among dozens of web and print publications in the U.S. and U.K. After much international travel, including a six year stint in China, she now resides with her Scottish husband, and a little black cat named Poppet, in a cottage surrounded by flower gardens in St. Augustine, Florida. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Flagler College.

Ruth Van Alstine

Crafts: Fiber Art; Crafts: Jewelry; Literature: Poetry

I was born in Upstate New York in Oneonta, and have been writing poetry since a young age. I have seriously pursued a writing career for the past twenty-five years. My work has been published in major national and international anthologies including, but not limited to: The Henry Bunner Anthology, Harriet Spofford: An Anthology in Memoriam from Bristol Banner Books and The Parnassus of World Poets Anthology published by Pronab Kumar Majumder in Calcutta, India. I published in 1996 the popular book of whimsical poems, “Fairies and Fantasies”, and am currently working on an eclectic anthology of poetry about Florida; my experiences, observations and reflections. In 2017 I anticipate the release of my second book of poetry titled: “Shattered Moonbeams, A Reflection of Life, Loss and Recovery”. This is a book that explores life experiences, and poetic expressions that can resonate with anyone’s personal experiences. This book of poems expresses my experiences of life before, during and after the death of my parents and the loss of my pet cat, who died at the old age of 20 years, a long time for a cat. I lost her three weeks after my father’s passing, so the trauma from that loss combined with the sudden loss of my parents who all died within a short seven months in 1997. Those experiences, as well as other poetry written about my life experiences have culminated in this latest book of poetry. I also have my own publishing company “Rising Moon Press”, with which I self-publish and am open to helping other poets in making their poetry books. Although my first love is poetry and writing, I also enjoy a variety of other crafts, namely crochet and jewelry making.

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