Susan Cerulean

Susan Cerulean is an American naturalist and writer. She authored a book about environmental issues facing swallow-tailed kites and wrote about environmental issues in her memoir, Coming to Pass.

Biography She has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Eckerd College and received a master's degree in horticulture from the University of Florida. She worked for an environmental organization and then as a lobbyist for environmental group in Tallahassee before taking a position with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC). Her projects with the state agency included the development of a Florida Wildlife Viewing Guide.

Her husband is oceanographer Jeff Chanton.

Selected works I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter’s Memoir (2020) Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change University of Georgia Press (2015) Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-Tailed Kites, University of Georgia Press (2005)