Name: Author Series Andrew Furman
Start: 2026-05-20T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-20T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Wild Space Gallery

Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selectvie Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
About this Event

Authors Series: Wednesday, May 20th, 5-8pm. Presentation 6-7pm, followed by a reception and book signing.

Join Wild Space Gallery for a lively presentation by South Florida based essayist and Florida Atlantic University English professor Andrew Furman, as he presents his book, Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness.

In this vivid and reflective work, Furman blends personal narrative with keen observations of the subtropical landscapes that surround his everyday life, revealing the unexpected wildness thriving within suburbia. Enjoy Furman’s presentation and learn new ways of seeing your neighborhood and the wilderness within it amidst everyday life.

Author Bio

Andrew Furman is a 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. He is the author, most recently, of the environmental memoir, Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness (University Press of Florida, 2025), which received a Florida Book Award Honorable Mention, and the novel, The World That We Are (Regal House Publishing, 2025).

2026 Authors Series Schedule:

05/20: Andrew Furman invites you to see your own natural and cultural landscape in Florida with deeper appreciation in: Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

06/24: Hilary Flower explores the extraordinary resurgence of the Everglade snail kite in The Kite and the Snail: An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World.

09/09: Jono Miller delves into the ecological, cultural, and botanical significance of the Sabal palmetto in Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm.

11/04: James Chapin is Florida-born writer and chronicler of historical fiction who portrays the intertwined lives of frontier families during the Second Seminole War in Ride South Until the Sawgrass.