Author of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. Film version stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sarsgaard.

Author of Kindred Spirits, Superfiction, and Suzi Sinzinnati.

NPR Correspondent and Host and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a memoir.

National Book Award Winner, author of Easy in the Islands, The Immaculate Invasion, and Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love and former columnist for GQ and contributing editor for Outside and Harper's.

Author of The Surrogates, a graphic novel, which became the hit film with Bruce Willis.

Author of The Man with the Fish on His Foot; Baja Florida, and Gut Check

Dean's Fellow in UCF's Creative Writing MFA program and a Managing Editor for The Florida Review