Florence Gonsalves
Florence Gonsalves is an author, poet, and educator at Virginia Tech where she teaches creative writing. She has published two novels with Little Brown Young Readers, Love and Other Carnivorous Plants and Dear Universe, and her essays and short stories appear or are forthcoming in Lit Hub, Hobart, and Pulp Magazine. In 2020, Florence founded the Dandy Line Poetry Troop, a community arts endeavor based in the New River Valley that aims to demystify “high brow” art through the spontaneous production of free, typewritten poems. For commissions, events, and inquiries, visit her online.
Reading List
Mother of All Things
In the last months of my marriage, I helped my mother-in-law with the bluebirds. When the eggs hatched, Elaine held them in her hand as softly and surely as a vow. The new birds were small and bulbous, ugly and breakable. I hated touching them. It was like holding a yolk and hoping you wouldn’t […]