Kati Schardl first heard the call of the wild as a scabby-kneed kid exploring Jackson County’s woods and waters in the Florida Panhandle. She learned her craft as a journalist in Tallahassee at the rabble-rousing independent daily newspaper the Florida Flambeau. For nigh on 20 years, she served as music columnist, theater critic and arts and features writer and editor at the Tallahassee Democrat. She has written for Local Palate, Tallahassee Magazine and Flamingo Magazine, among other publications. Kati recently earned an MFA in narrative non-fiction from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She currently works as an editor for the Florida Senate’s bill drafting office and lives in Tallahassee with an ornery house panther named Bonnie Prince Charlie. When the world gets to be too much, Kati restores her soul in the cypress bogs of the Apalachicola National Forest and the salt marsh and pine flatwoods of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
Kati Schardl will be joining us at Word of South in conversation with author Richard Powers.