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Brenda Peynado celebrated the release of her novel at Tombolo Books in August 2024.

In 鈥楾ime鈥檚 Agent,鈥� pocket worlds reveal deep truths 鈥� and earn USF faculty a Philip K. Dick award

05/20/25 — In Brenda Peynado's "Time's Agent," pocket worlds exist, but they don鈥檛 hold the key to the universe鈥檚 mysteries like the characters once hoped. Instead, each pocket world 鈥� a geographically small, hidden offshoot of reality 鈥� is controlled by a corporation intent on turning a profit.

St. Petersburg poet laureate and USF alumna publishes debut novel

04/29/25 — In Gloria Mu帽oz's debut novel, a genre-bending work of young adult climate fiction, Florida is crumbling under the weight of climate disaster, and seventeen-year-old Julieta Villarreal must decide whether to remain on Earth with her friends and family or to leave everything behind and embark on a mission to establish humanity鈥檚 first extraterrestrial settlement.

USF Assistant Professor Ajibola Tolase (center left) and USF alumna Aracelis Gonz谩lez Asendorf (center right) both received gold medals from the Florida Book Awards.

USF poets bring home gold, silver and bronze book awards

04/22/25 — Ajibola Tolase, an assistant professor in the Department of English, won a gold medal from the Florida Book for his poetry collection 鈥�2000 Blacks.鈥� He joins colleagues Heather Sellers, who received a bronze medal in the poetry category in 2022 for her collection, 鈥淔ield Notes from the Flood Zone,鈥� and Julia Koets, who received a silver award in the poetry category in 2021 for her collection, 鈥淧ine.鈥�

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