Susan Cerulean celebrates the ancient, present-time and future shorelines of north Florida in her new memoir, Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change. Her many books and collaborative anthologies include Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites, UnspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida’s Coast; Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf; The Book of the Everglades; and The Wild Heart of Florida. Cerulean lives in Tallahassee, Florida, a long twenty miles from the nearest salt water.
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April 4-6, 2025