Bob is an Emmy Award-winning reporter. He lives north of Orlando with his wife and two children. This is his first book, and it includes never-before published photographs of Kerouac.

Kerouac in Florida

Fay Hart was born on April 18, 1955 in Macclesfield, England, the first stopping-off point on her family’s immigration route to America from Ireland. She was raised in Chicago,
then Indiana and finally Florida, where she dropped out of school and made her way to California, working at a variety of jobs while recording her adventures in a series
of pamphlets titled Don’t Kiss Me, I’m Busy. In 1977, she moved to London where she remained for thirty years. Her poems are widely published and anthologized. Yard Sale is her first full-length collection. She now divides her time between Florida and Mexico.

Shady Lane Press has contracted with Christopher Watkins to publish Short Houses With Wide Porches. Christopher Watkins is a poet and songwriter. His poems are  appearing or have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The GW Review, Slipstream, Euphony, Talking River, and Red Rock Review, among others. He was the Fall 2006 Writer-in-Residence at The Kerouac House. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program at The University of Southern Maine. As a songwriter, he has released five albums under the name Preacher Boy and has received a Gold Record for his songwriting work with Grammy-winning artist Eagle-Eye Cherry. He was raised in Iowa, Michigan, Italy and Washington and his lived with his missus, visual artist Amy Marinelli, in California, Ireland, Colorado, Illinois, and New York. This is his first poetry collection. Publication date: March 2008

Emily Nemens is the Fall 2007 writer in residence at the Kerouac House. Always striving to bring visual arts, design, and literature together in a compelling way, she has written and illustrated a graphic novel about the 2004 Madrid train bombings (on-view at www.nemens.com/madrid_comic.html), edited a book for the Education department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an excerpt of her first novel, Blue-eyed Apples, was selected for The L Magazine’s 2007 Literary Upstart Competition. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Brown University in 2005. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she works as a writer, designer, painter, and occasional musician

Darlyn Finch is the Winter 2006/2007 writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House. A poet known for her saucy style and engaging readings, she is also a gifted storyteller. Her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, and online. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM. She is a repeat winner of the Mt. Dora Festival of Art and Literature; cultural liaison for the Society of American Travel Writers Institute; and the eponymous “Scribbler,” author of the Scribbles literary newsletter and sunscribbles.com. She holds an English degree from Rollins College and is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at Spalding University.