Nature Writer Susan Cerulean to Share Reflections on Standing Rock and Lessons for Florida

On Thursday, December 22 at 4 pm at the Key West Library, nature writer and activist Susan Cerulean will share stories, images and reflections from her recent trip to Standing Rock Reservation–the site of the successful Dakota Access pipeline protest. Cerulean and her niece Erin Canter, a master’s candidate in environmental microbiology, traveled to North Dakota to support the tribal Water Protectors along with thousands of other advocates between November 28 and December 4, 2016.

Cerulean will also discuss connections between the Dakota pipeline battle and her long time advocacy on behalf of Florida, especially its coastline and wildlife. Cerulean’s book Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change, was the 2016 recipient of the Florida Humanities’ Council Gold Award for Florida Nonfiction. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Coming to Pass chronicles our uniquely beautiful northern Gulf coast as it is now, as it once was and how it may be, as sea level rises.

For more than three decades, Cerulean and her husband FSU oceanography professor Jeff Chanton have kayaked, hiked, scalloped, fished and counted birds on and around Dog, St. Georges, and St Vincent islands. Previous books include Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites, UnspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida’s Coast, and Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf.  She writes a regular column at www.comingtopass.com.

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