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"One of the finest nature writers in America.”
—Diane Roberts,
University of Oxford

"Susan Cerulean… invites us to extend our compassion and our sense of family to all species on this beautiful, broken planet, we call home. This book is an awakening.”
—Terry Tempest Williams,
Harvard Divinity School

"With compassion, keen insights, and elegant prose, Cerulean celebrates our inherent and intractable relationship with the natural world…”
—Author Joe Hutto

About

Susan was born and raised in the Appalachian foothills of northern New Jersey. Just as those mountains shed their quartz and feldspar to create our continent’s sandy shores, they tumbled her down their long spine to a small green island on Florida’s Gulf coast. With her husband, climate scientist Jeff Chanton, she divides her time between Tallahassee and Indian Pass, pursuing activism, writing, and communion with wild birds.

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Upcoming Events

October 22, 6:30 p.m.
The Call to a Wilder Wisdom Book Launch
Midtown Reader
Tallahassee, FL

Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change

The Call to a Wilder Wisdom

New book coming October 22nd

The Call to a Wilder Wisdom is part memoir, part guidebook, and part reflection on what it means to belong to a place. It offers a path to reorient ourselves more closely to the living world, in these unsettled times.
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