Colette Bancroft joined the St. Petersburg Times in 1997. Before she became book editor in 2007, she was a news editor, general assignment features writer and food and travel writer, as well as a frequent contributor of reviews of books, theater and other arts. Before joining the Times staff, she was a reporter and editor at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and an instructor in the English departments of the University of South Florida and the University of Arizona. Bancroft grew up in Tampa.

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