Literary Arts
Lesley Visser: Trailblazing Sports Journalist
In ten Halls of Fame, LESLEY VISSER is the most highly acclaimed female sports journalist of all time.
read morePaul George + Henry Green: Co-Authors of “Jewish Miami Beach”
PAUL GEORGE + HENRY GREEN present the evolution of the Jewish community in Miami Beach in the 20th century in their fascinating book, “Jewish Miami Beach.”
read moreSteven Pressman: From Journalism to Filmmaking
STEVEN PRESSMAN (b.1955) is a former newspaper and magazine journalist who has been making documentary films for the past 15 years. His most recent film is “Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie.”
read moreClaire Healy: Investigative Reporter
CLAIRE HEALY is an Esserman Investigative Fellow at the Miami Herald. Prior to her current role, she wrote for the Washington Post, where she was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist for “Searching for Maura.”
read moreGenre Defying Author Julie Marie Wade
JULIE MARIE WADE is the author of 22 volumes of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the new memoir “Other People’s Mothers” (University Press of Florida, 2025). Wade is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami.
read moreSteve Schanes: Comic Book + Animation Entrepreneur
STEVE SCHANES has been in the comic book and animation industry for 50+ years
read morePhotographer Robin Hill: The Way He Sees It
ROBIN HILL is an award-winning architecture, design, and fine art photographer based in New York and Miami. He has collaborated on more than 20 books, and received the AIA award for Florida in 2015 as the Architectural Photographer of the Year.
read moreRosa Lowinger: Author, Art Conservator, Curator
ROSA LOWINGER is a noted Cuban-born American writer, curator, and art conservator. She is the author of “Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair,” and “Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub.”
read moreJewish American Heritage Month
For JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2026, we have curated a group of video conversations from the ArtSpeak archives with impactful Jewish-American writers, artists, architects, and performance artists.
read moreWhy We Read Fiction
A novelist, journalist and educator, ANNE BERNAYS has been writing for over 40 years. In 1980, Bernays also began her journey as a writing professor at Harvard University, and became a professor of creative writing at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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