Cathy Salustri loves Florida. The New York Times featured her 2016 travel narrative retracing Florida's WPA-era driving tours, Backroads of Paradise. She published her second book, Florida Spectacular: Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives, in 2024. She has an MLA in Florida Studies. She's worked at Walt Disney World, an aerial banner towing company, as a kayak guide, sailboat crew, and stage manager. 

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Orlando-based writer and graphic designer Rick Kilby wrote Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas (University Press of Florida, 2020), which received the silver medal for Florida nonfiction from the Florida Book Awards and the Florida Historical Society’s Stetson Kennedy Award. His first book, Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de León and Florida's Magical Waters (University Press of Florida, 2013), won a Florida Book Award in the Visual Arts category.

Get both titles at RickKilby.com, and make sure to bookmark Old Florida with Rick Kilby and read through the archives.

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