Flagler College's Storytellers—Author in Residence program brings nationally recognized authors to Flagler's campus to teach and mentor for an entire semester. The authors will engage with faculty and students, hold readings, and teach a course focusing on a seminal text that has shaped their writing.
Authors in Residence News
Upcoming Spring 2025 Storytellers Event!
Flagler College will proudly present a Storytellers' Author in Residence Reading featuring Kelsey Norris. The event takes place at 7 p.m. on March 25, 2025, at Markland House on the Flagler campus.
Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. Her debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, is a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and is available wherever books are sold. For more about the author, visit her site.
Past Storytellers Events
In Fall 2024, The Storytellers - Author in Residence event was held at The Markland House at 7 p.m. Oct. 24, 2024.
Ananda Lima, a poet, translator, and fiction writer, was Flagler's Storyteller for the fall. She read from her new book and discussed her work. For more about her work, see the authors' section below. Or, read a Flagler College student's story about the transformative nature of working with Lima.
In Spring 2024, Flagler College welcomed the esteemed author Taylor Brown as the first Storytellers Author in Residence. Brown is a three-time finalist for the Southern Book Prize and has been honored with the Montana Prize in Fiction.
As part of his residency, Brown engaged in a Q&A session and discussion with Kyle Tibbs Jones, Co-Founder and Director of Media for the Bitter Southerner on March 18 in the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum.
Authors in Residence
Authors in Residence
Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator.
She is the author of Craft: "Stories I Wrote for the Devil" (Tor Books) and "Mother/land" (Black Lawrence Press), and the winner of the Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press.
She is also the author of four chapbooks, including "Amblyopia" (Bull City Press) and "Tropicália" (Newfound), and the winner of the Newfound Prose Prize.
Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and was a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Chicago Review of Books Chirby Awards.
Lima has a Master of Arts in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Her voice was praised as “singular and wise” (Cathy Park Hong), and Craft was described as “an absolutely thrilling reminder that short stories can be the best kind of magic” (Kelly Link).
Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago.
Taylor Brown is a three-time finalist for the Southern Book Prize and has been honored with the prestigious Montana Prize

in Fiction. He was also the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year. His books include "Wingwalkers," "Pride of Eden," "Gods of Howl Mountain," "The River Kings," "Fallen Land," and "In the Season of Blood and Gold."
Throughout the semester, Brown hosted readings, participated in discussions with faculty and students, and taught a specialized course centered on Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
The intimate classroom setting enabled students to delve into the author's creative process, gain insights into their craft, and witness firsthand the journey from academia to professional creative writing.
