True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida

is a novelist and comic book writer. A Miami native, Segura is the author of four previous novels in his Pete Fernandez series. He has also written a number of comic books, including the best-selling and critically acclaimed Archie Meets Kiss storyline, the "Occupy Riverdale" story and the upcoming Archie Meets Ramones. He is a contributing writer in Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida (Jai-Alai Books), an anthology of more than thirty Miami transit-related stories, edited by Florida International University Creative Writing Professor Lynne Barrett, and featuring writers such as Richard Blanco, Chantel Acevedo, Diana Abu-Jaber, Jennine Capó Crucet, Les Standiford, and Thomas Swick. Kenny Malone, Co-host of NPR’s Planet Money says, “Hold on to your roof mattresses: Making Good Time is a loving, alarming, definitive collection of only-in-Miami road tales.” In Miami Midnight (Polis Books) we meet Pete Fernandez again. A year has passed since his latest, closest brush with death. After months of recovery, the newly sober Pete has managed to rebuild his life, contentedly running a small Miami bookstore and steering clear of the dangers of private eye work. Then an aging Cuban mobster asks Pete to find out who killed his drug-addicted, jazz pianist son and to locate his missing daughter-in-law.   

 Jennine Capó Crucet is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Her novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice book, the winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award, and was cited as a best book of the year by NBC Latino, the Guardian, and the Miami Herald. Her short stories have been honored with the Iowa Short Fiction Award, an O. Henry Prize, and other awards. She is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska. In My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education (Picador), a sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Raised in Miami and the daughter of Cuban refugees, Crucet examines the political and personal contours of American identity and the physical places where those contours find themselves smashed. In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful, sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and―in the face of all signals saying otherwise―perhaps even thrive in a country that never imagined them here.

Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of the story collections The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and, Magpies, which received the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for General Fiction. She authored What Editors Want: A Must Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines, edited Tigertail: Florida Flash, and co-edited Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook, a collection of Cain's nonfiction. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review. Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida (Jai-Alai Books), is an anthology of more than thirty Miami transit-related stories, edited by Florida International University Creative Writing Professor Lynne Barrett, and featuring writers such as Richard Blanco, Chantel Acevedo, Diana Abu-Jaber, Jennine Capó Crucet, Les Standiford, and Thomas Swick. Kenny Malone, Co-host of NPR’s Planet Money says, “Hold on to your roof mattresses: Making Good Time is a loving, alarming, definitive collection of only-in-Miami road tales.” 

Sammy Mack is an award-winning journalist covering health care policy and public health. Her story about reporting on Zika while pregnant and living in Miami appears in Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida from

Jai Alai Books. Mack was previously a staff reporter for WLRN, South Florida’s public radio news station. Her work has been published by NPR, Kaiser Health News, Global Health, Monocle 24, the Miami Herald and other outlets.

Terence Cantarella’s stories have appeared in, or been re-reported by, publications like the Atlantic, New York Times, Huffington Post, and Daily Mail. They’ve also been the subject of radio and TV programs. He is a contributing writer in Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida (Jai-Alai Books), an anthology of more than thirty Miami transit-related stories, edited by Florida International University Creative Writing Professor Lynne Barrett, and featuring writers such as Richard Blanco, Chantel Acevedo, Diana Abu-Jaber, Jennine Capó Crucet, Les Standiford, and Thomas Swick. Kenny Malone, Co-host of NPR’s Planet Money says, “Hold on to your roof mattresses: Making Good Time is a loving, alarming, definitive collection of only-in-Miami road tales.”