Poetry
Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators
On sale June 23, 2026.
A new book from award-winning poet Heather Sellers, whose work is known for its clarity, warmth, and humor. In Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, Sellers once again takes great delight in documenting life in her wonderfully weird native Florida.
Field Notes from the Flood Zone
- BOA Editions American Poets Continuum Series
- Winner, Bronze Medal, Florida State Book Award
“I’m dazzled, harrowed, fascinated, afraid, and then my mouth falls open coming upon and image or a phrase so lovely and unexpected….” writes Abigail Thomas
“For many years, Heather Sellers has been among the most lyrical and thoughtful chroniclers of Florida. A pitch perfect book… essential.” --Campbell McGrath
The Present State of the Garden
- Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
This collection is a memoir in poetry, telling the story of three intertwined losses: childhood, a marriage, and Edenic Florida. “Sellers weaves an enchantment that is almost religious in its embrace,” writes Barbara Hamby. “She prays, she laments, she praises, and she observes the smallest details….”
The Boys I Borrow
- James Laughlin Prize, finalist
Poems about stepsons, marriage, and family. “A cohesive and engaging collection,” writes Billy Collins, “of sensitive and clever poems.” And Beth Ann Fennelly writes “…our wonderfully banal and beautiful world rendered in painterly precision and tender humor. This is a book that sustains.”
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Drinking Girls and Their Dresses
- Winner, Sawtooth Prize, selected by Brenda Hillman
A coming of age story set in a Florida that is equally lush and oppressive, steeped in desire.
“Slant, crackly, truly original poems.”
“Be careful. These poems can be wonderfully dangerous: jumpy, radiant.” –Marianne Boruch
Dive
A chapbook of poems from Florida’s beloved publisher, Yellow Jacket Press.
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The Present State of the Garden (Chapbook)
- Finalist Snowbound Chapbook Award Tupelo Press
Frond
- Finalist Chad Walsh Chapbook Series
After
Combine Books
Your Whole Life
Panhandler Press
Self Portraits
A chapbook of poems from Combine Books. Limited edition.