Susan Cerulean is a writer, naturalist, and activist based in Tallahassee and Indian Pass, Florida. Her forthcoming book, If This Were a Map, will be published by Apalachee Press in April 2026. She has published three award-winning works of nonfiction with the University Press of Georgia: I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter's Memoir; Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change, and Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites. She co-edited Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf, an acclaimed anthology of personal essays written by the area's foremost writers and naturalists. She edited Unspoiled: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast, with Janisse Ray and A. James Wohlpart, alerting Floridians to perils of oil drilling in the Gulf. Susan Cerulean and her husband, climate scientist Jeffrey Chanton, have three adult children, two marvelous grandsons, and a gray cat named Oakie.