Lit Chat with Environmental Journalist Cynthia Barnett

Cynthia Barnett is an award-winning author and journalist who has covered water and climate change stories worldwide—reporting from the rainiest place on earth in Cherrapunji, India, on epic drought in Perth, Australia, or on the American folly of building in swamplands with too much water and deserts without enough.

Her latest book, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans, which was named one of the best science books of the year by NPR’s Science Friday. She will be in conversation with St. Johns Riverkeeper, Lisa Rinaman, live at the Main Library.

A book signing will follow the interview with copies of the book available for sale on-site from The BookMark.

Save your seat for this FREE talk at jaxlibrary.org/litchat

Note: This program is in partnership with St. Johns Riverkeeper.

Cynthia Barnett was a longtime newspaper and magazine staff writer before diving full time into water. Her Knight-Wallace Fellowship researching freshwater history and science at the University of Michigan led to her first book, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., later named by the Tampa Bay Times as one of the top 10 books that every Floridian should read. She is the director of Climate and Environment Reporting Initiatives at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications.

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