St. Petersburg/Tampa Regional Chapter

Anthony Borruso is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at The University of South Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University, where he served as Poetry Editor for Southeast Review. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Frontier, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2024 Louise Bogan Poetry Award, his debut collection Splice will be published in July 2025 by Trio House Press.

Ben Sperduto writes weird fiction that slithers across the boundaries of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. His most recent novel, Blackspire (2020), is available from Owl Hollow Press. He studies and teaches writing as a graduate student at the University of South Florida, where he also served as Managing Editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Saw Palm literary journal. He remains optimistic that his work will one day be banned by the State of Florida or cause it to sink into the ocean.