Susan Cerulean is a writer, naturalist, and activist. She was awarded a Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction for her book Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change (2015), published by the University of Georgia Press, which will release Cerulean’s I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter’s Memoir in 2020. She has also edited several collections on Florida’s ecology, including UnspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida’s Coast (Red Hills Writers Project, 2010). She divides her time between Tallahassee and Indian Pass with her husband, oceanographer and climate scientist Dr. Jeffrey Chanton.
