Geoffrey Philp is an artist in residence at the Seaside Institute and the author of Exodus and Other Poems, Florida Bound, Hurricane Center, Xango Music, and Uncle Obadiah and the Alien. He is the recipient of the Individual Artist fellowship from the Florida Arts Council, the Sauza Stay Pure award, and the James Michener fellowship at the University of Miami. His poems and short stories have also appeared in Asili, The Mississippi Review, The Caribbean Writer, Gulf Stream, Apalachee Quarterly, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Florida in Poetry, The Oxford Book ofCaribbean Sh...