Author and educator Heather Sellers will participate in two upcoming events centered on her latest book, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators. These events will provide a closer look at the inspiration, themes, and narratives featured in the collection. The events are free and open to the public.
Event 1 with Dr. Tangela Serls
- Date: Thursday, October 8
- Time: 4:00pm
- Location: USF Tampa Campus, Marshall Student Center 4200
Event 2
- Date: Saturday, November 7
- Time: 12:30pm
- Location: USF St. Pete Campus, Bookstore, 500 3rd St. S
Book Description
Flowing along the subtropical waterways and rooted in the happenstance of our day-to-day experiences, award-winning poet Heather Sellers’ latest poetry collection, her fifth, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, presents radiant portraits of the people — and creatures — that she encounters in her wonderfully weird home state of Florida.
Drawn from the author’s daily observation journals, the collection’s sun-struck, open-hearted poems eavesdrop on conversations among neighbors and follow the quirky behaviors of humans—and other interesting animals—throughout the course of a year in The Sunshine State. And as increasingly powerful hurricanes brew in the background, the reader experiences fresh compassion for the fragile lives carved out of a fragile landscape. In the end, Sellers assures us that paying close attention, noticing wildness in the ordinary, and ultimately, tending our connections to each other, is what will see us through.
About Heather Sellers
A Florida native, Heather Sellers is the author of 12 books, including five volumes of poetry. Her award-winning collections are Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA Editions) and The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press). Her new collection is Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, poems about daily life in suburban Florida, in all its weird glory.
Sellers’ memoir, You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, was an Oprah Magazine Book of the Month selection and Editors’ Choice at the New York Times Book Review, and her short story collection, Georgia Under Water, was the winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. She has also authored four books on the craft of writing, including Page after Page and The Practice of Creative Writing, and her essays have been published in Good Housekeeping, The Sun, Parade, ¸é±ð²¹»å±ð°ù’s Digest, The New York Times, Redbook, The Sun, and Best American Essays.