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In Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness, Andrew Furman reflects on the interplay between his suburban life in South Florida and the surrounding environment. Through vivid vignettes, he explores the beauty and challenges of his “suburban wilderness,” blending observations of nature with stories of home and family.
Andrew Furman is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. His fiction and creative nonfiction frequently engage with the Florida outdoors and have appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Grist, Santa Monica Review, Ecotone, Willow Springs, Poets & Writers, Solstice, Southern Indiana Review, Potomac Review, Terrain.org, Flyway, and The Florida Review. He is the author, most recently, of the novels Jewfish (Little Curlew Press, 2020) and Goldens Are Here (Green Writers Press, 2018), and the memoir Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (University Press of Florida, 2014), which was named a finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award. His novel, The World That We Are, will be released by Regal House Publishing in Fall 2025. He lives in south Florida with his family.
Florida Voices is generously supported by the Fred J. Brotherton Endowment for Literature, established at The Four Arts by the Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation. Fred Brotherton, who died in 2003, was for many years a Benefactor of The Four Arts and a strong supporter of its programs. Florida Voices, featuring the state that was Mr. Brotherton’s winter home, serves as a continuing memorial to this much-respected member of The Four Arts.