This author of "Haunting Olivia" wrote about a girl who goes through the Eye of the Needle to elope with Louis Thanksgiving's ghost.
In a story by this author, two brothers find a pair of goggles in a ship graveyard that lets them see the ghosts of sea animals. In that story, Timothy and Wallow try to find their sister, lost at sea while riding a sled made from the exoskeleton of a crab. Another of her stories follows Clyde and Magreb, a couple living in Italy who find that the titular fruits are getting less effective at relieving their thirst for blood. This author of "Haunting Olivia" wrote about a girl who goes through the Eye of the Needle to elope with Louis Thanksgiving's ghost. That girl appears in a novel in which Kiwi works as a janitor and then as a pilot at The World of (*) Darkness, and the Bird Man tricks Ava into going to a fake underworld with him, where he rapes her. This author of the short story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove wrote a finalist for the winnerless 2012 Pulitzer Prize. For 10 points, name this Floridian author of a novel in which Chief Bigtree runs an alligator-based theme park, Swamplandia!. 
In a story by this author, two brothers find a pair of goggles in a ship graveyard that lets them see the ghosts of sea animals.
Karen Russell