Florida Writer Podcast

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Tiffany Brown Holmes, the author of Once Defiant and The Promise, holds a degree in English with an emphasis on expository and creative writing. Tiffany is also a contributor to the award-winning book Battlelines LtCol David Brown USMC Ret.

Silver Star Medal recipient David Brown served two tours in Vietnam as an advisor and rifle company commander during 1967-1969. His first novel, Battlelines, is an historical fiction written about the gallant men of Fox Company, 2d Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during their five-year deployment to Vietnam. His second novel, Bandits Below, is about the birth of the Marine Corps' Air-Ground Team in Nicaragua during the late 1920s.

For more information, visit David at DavidBrownBooks.net.

John Davis Jr. is the author of Hard Inheritance (Five Oaks Press, 2016), Middle Class American Proverb (Negative Capability Press, 2014) and two other books of poetry. He has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, and he holds an MFA from the University of Tampa. His writings are published in literary journals throughout the South and around the world. He teaches English and Literature for Keiser University. For more information, visit John at JohnDavisJrPoet.com

Cuban born José Manuel Garcia immigrated to the U.S. during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. He is currently an associate professor of Hispanic literature and Latin American studies at Florida Southern College, where he is also coordinator of the Modern and Critical Languages program.

In 2011 he wrote the script and co-produced the international award-winning documentary Voices From Mariel. In the spring of 2018 University Press of Florida published his book titled Voices from Mariel: Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift.

For more information, contact Jose at [email protected]