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== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
Barnett was born in [[Fort Myers, Florida]], and raised in [[Florida]] and [[California]]. Barnett earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in [[American history]] with a specialization in [[environmental history]], both from the [[University of Florida]], and has described [[Florida]]’s nature and weather as significant inspiration for her work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://snowhydro1.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/environment-writer-interviews-cynthia-barnett/|title=Environment Writer Interviews: Cynthia Barnett|date=2015-08-24|website=Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gainesville.com/lifestyle/20150614/floridas-lush-and-intriguing-landscape-has-inspired-generations-of-writers/1|title=Florida's lush and intriguing landscape has inspired generations of writers|last=Correspondent|first=Diana Tonnessen|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ocala.com/news/20111002/blue-muse-writers-inspired-by-north-florida-waters|title=Blue muse: Writers inspired by North Florida waters|last=Star-Banner|first=Annie Pais Special to the|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>
Barnett was born in [[Fort Myers, Florida]], and raised in [[Florida]] and [[California]]. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in [[American history]] with a specialization in [[environmental history]], both from the [[University of Florida]], and has described [[Florida]]’s nature and weather as significant inspiration for her work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://snowhydro1.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/environment-writer-interviews-cynthia-barnett/|title=Environment Writer Interviews: Cynthia Barnett|date=2015-08-24|website=Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gainesville.com/lifestyle/20150614/floridas-lush-and-intriguing-landscape-has-inspired-generations-of-writers/1|title=Florida's lush and intriguing landscape has inspired generations of writers|last=Correspondent|first=Diana Tonnessen|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ocala.com/news/20111002/blue-muse-writers-inspired-by-north-florida-waters|title=Blue muse: Writers inspired by North Florida waters|last=Star-Banner|first=Annie Pais Special to the|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref> She spent 2004-2005 as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] researching freshwater scarcity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wallacehouse.umich.edu/knight-wallace/|title=Knight-Wallace Fellowships – Knight-Wallace|website=wallacehouse.umich.edu|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
Barnett spent twenty-five years as a reporter, columnist and editor at newspapers and magazines before giving up her full-time job in 2012 to devote her career to the environment and her books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/perspective-a-history-as-right-as-rain/2248105|title=Perspective: A history as right as 'Rain'|website=Tampa Bay Times|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/us/19florida.html|title=Florida Is Slow to See the Need to Save Water|last=Goodnough|first=Abby|date=2007-06-19|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref> Since then, she has written on water and climate change for [[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]], the [[New York Times]], [[Los Angeles Times]], [[Wall Street Journal]], [[The Atlantic]], [[Salon (website)|Salon]], [[Politico]], [[Discover (magazine)|Discover]], [[Orion (magazine)|Orion]], [[Ensia]], the [[Tampa Bay Times]], and other publications.
Barnett spent her early career as a newspaper reporter, columnist and editor before joining [[Florida Trend]] magazine, where she was known for investigative reporting. Her investigation “Road Racket” into an overcharging scheme involving some of Florida’s major highway contractors was recognized by the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information as one of the “Top Freedom of Information stories of the past 30 years.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.floridatrend.com/article/13139/road-racket|title=Road Racket|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brechner.org/|title=The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information|website=www.brechner.org|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brechner.org/top30/|title=The Brechner Center|website=www.brechner.org|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.floridatrend.com/article/8686/road-racket-still-relevant-in-2007|title='Road Racket' Still Relevant in 2007|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref> Her exposé on inspectors general fired by the subjects of their scrutiny won a national Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Magazine Reporting from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.floridatrend.com/article/5451/watchdogs-on-a-leash|title=Watchdogs on a Leash|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>


After investigating [[desalination]], wetlands [[mitigation banking]], coastal water quality and other water issues, Barnett has described becoming “obsessed with water.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gainesville.com/lifestyle/20150426/obsessed-with-water/1|title='Obsessed with water'|last=Magazine|first=Ron Cunningham Gainesville|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref> She spent 2004-2005 as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] researching freshwater scarcity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wallacehouse.umich.edu/knight-wallace/|title=Knight-Wallace Fellowships – Knight-Wallace|website=wallacehouse.umich.edu|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref> Her first book, ''Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.'', published by the [[University of Michigan Press]] in 2007, foresaw the spread of U.S. water conflict to the relatively wet eastern half of the country. ''Mirage'' won the Gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards and was named by the [[Tampa Bay Times]] as one of the top 10 books that every Floridian should read.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/top-10-books-every-floridian-should-read/1067029|title=Top 10 books every Floridian should read|website=Tampa Bay Times|language=en-us|access-date=2017-02-05}}</ref> Her second book, ''Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis'', published by [[Beacon Press]] in 2011, reported on water solutions from Australia to Singapore and articulated a water ethic for the United States. It also described a “water-industrial complex” that influences U.S. water policy toward twentieth century supply-side projects. ''Blue Revolution'' was named one of the best science books of 2011 by [[The Boston Globe]]. Writing in the ''Globe'', author [[Anthony Doerr]] described Barnett’s author persona as “part journalist, part mom, part historian and part optimist.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/10/02/draining_america_reviews_of_two_recent_books_on_science/|title=Draining America: reviews of two recent books on science|newspaper=Boston.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-05}}</ref>
Her first book, ''Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.'', published by the [[University of Michigan Press]] in 2007, foresaw the spread of U.S. water conflict to the relatively wet eastern half of the country. ''Mirage'' won the Gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards and was named by the [[Tampa Bay Times]] as one of the top 10 books that every Floridian should read.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/top-10-books-every-floridian-should-read/1067029|title=Top 10 books every Floridian should read|website=Tampa Bay Times|language=en-us|access-date=2017-02-05}}</ref> Her second book, ''Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis'', published by [[Beacon Press]] in 2011, reported on water solutions from Australia to Singapore and articulated a water ethic for the United States. It also described a “water-industrial complex” that influences U.S. water policy toward twentieth century supply-side projects. ''Blue Revolution'' was named one of the best science books of 2011 by [[The Boston Globe]]. Writing in the ''Globe'', author [[Anthony Doerr]] described Barnett’s author persona as “part journalist, part mom, part historian and part optimist.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/10/02/draining_america_reviews_of_two_recent_books_on_science/|title=Draining America: reviews of two recent books on science|newspaper=Boston.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-05}}</ref>


Barnett left her full-time job in 2012 to devote her career to the environment and her books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/perspective-a-history-as-right-as-rain/2248105|title=Perspective: A history as right as 'Rain'|website=Tampa Bay Times|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/us/19florida.html|title=Florida Is Slow to See the Need to Save Water|last=Goodnough|first=Abby|date=2007-06-19|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref> Since then, she has written on water and climate change for [[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]], the [[New York Times]], [[Los Angeles Times]], [[Wall Street Journal]], [[The Atlantic]], [[Salon (website)|Salon]], [[Politico]], [[Discover (magazine)|Discover]], [[Orion (magazine)|Orion]], [[Ensia]], the [[Tampa Bay Times]], and other publications. For her third book, ''Rain: A Natural and Cultural History'', she set out to draw a broader audience with a popular topic, weather, and a lyrical approach to water and climate – “more poetry than pipelines,” she says in her public lectures. ''Rain'' was published in 2015 by Crown, a division of [[Random House]], and widely lauded for Barnett’s nature writing and ability to translate science for a general audience.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cynthiabarnett.net/articles.html|title=cynthia barnett - articles|website=cynthiabarnett.net|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cynthiabarnett.net/books.html|title=cynthia barnett - books|website=cynthiabarnett.net|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/books/article18751323.html|title=Review: ‘Rain’ by Cynthia Barnett|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/rain-a-natural-and-cultural-history-by-cynthia-barnett.html|title=‘Rain: A Natural and Cultural History,’ by Cynthia Barnett|last=Streever|first=Bill|date=2015-04-17|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref> ''Rain'' was longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing, Gold medal winner for best general nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards, and named a best book of 2015 by [[NPR]]’s [[Science Friday]], ''The Boston Globe'', the ''Tampa Bay Times'', the ''Miami Herald'' and ''Kirkus Reviews''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cynthiabarnett.net/press.html|title=cynthia barnett - press|website=www.cynthiabarnett.net|access-date=2017-02-05}}</ref>
For her third book, ''Rain: A Natural and Cultural History'', she set out to draw a broader audience with a popular topic, weather, and a lyrical approach to water and climate – “more poetry than pipelines,” she says in her public lectures. ''Rain'' was published in 2015 by Crown, a division of [[Random House]], and widely lauded for Barnett’s nature writing and ability to translate science for a general audience.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cynthiabarnett.net/articles.html|title=cynthia barnett - articles|website=cynthiabarnett.net|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cynthiabarnett.net/books.html|title=cynthia barnett - books|website=cynthiabarnett.net|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/books/article18751323.html|title=Review: ‘Rain’ by Cynthia Barnett|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/rain-a-natural-and-cultural-history-by-cynthia-barnett.html|title=‘Rain: A Natural and Cultural History,’ by Cynthia Barnett|last=Streever|first=Bill|date=2015-04-17|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref> ''Rain'' was longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing, Gold medal winner for best general nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards, and named a best book of 2015 by [[NPR]]’s [[Science Friday]], ''The Boston Globe'', the ''Tampa Bay Times'', the ''Miami Herald'' and ''Kirkus Reviews''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cynthiabarnett.net/press.html|title=cynthia barnett - press|website=www.cynthiabarnett.net|access-date=2017-02-05}}</ref>


Barnett is also Environmental Journalist in Residence at the [[University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications]], where she teaches Environmental Journalism and Nature & Adventure Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/cynthia-barnett/|title=Cynthia Barnett - UF College of Journalism and Communications|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref> She is a critic of [[environmental communication]] targeted exclusively to conservation audiences and encourages students to reach “the Caring Middle.” She first wrote about the Caring Middle in a commencement address to the [[Unity College (Maine)|Unity College]] class of 2012 in [[Unity, Maine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/2014/10/reaching-the-caring-middle-one-emerald-lawn-at-a-time/|title=Reaching The Caring Middle, One Emerald Lawn At A Time|date=2014-10-31|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unity.edu/news/unity-college-commencement-address|title=News {{!}} Unity College {{!}} America's Environmental College|website=www.unity.edu|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>
Barnett is also Environmental Journalist in Residence at the [[University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications]], where she teaches Environmental Journalism and Nature & Adventure Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/cynthia-barnett/|title=Cynthia Barnett - UF College of Journalism and Communications|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref> She is a critic of [[environmental communication]] targeted exclusively to conservation audiences and encourages students to reach “the Caring Middle.” She first wrote about the Caring Middle in a commencement address to the [[Unity College (Maine)|Unity College]] class of 2012 in [[Unity, Maine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/2014/10/reaching-the-caring-middle-one-emerald-lawn-at-a-time/|title=Reaching The Caring Middle, One Emerald Lawn At A Time|date=2014-10-31|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unity.edu/news/unity-college-commencement-address|title=News {{!}} Unity College {{!}} America's Environmental College|website=www.unity.edu|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>

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Cynthia Barnett
Barnett, photographed by John Moran in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Occupation(s)Author, journalist
WebsiteCynthiaBarnett.net

Cynthia Barnett is an American journalist who specializes in the environment. She is the author of the water books Mirage (2007), Blue Revolution (2011), and Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing from the PEN America Center.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Barnett was born in Fort Myers, Florida, and raised in Florida and California. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in American history with a specialization in environmental history, both from the University of Florida, and has described Florida’s nature and weather as significant inspiration for her work.[5][6][7] She spent 2004-2005 as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan researching freshwater scarcity.[8]

Career

Barnett spent twenty-five years as a reporter, columnist and editor at newspapers and magazines before giving up her full-time job in 2012 to devote her career to the environment and her books.[9][10] Since then, she has written on water and climate change for National Geographic, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Salon, Politico, Discover, Orion, Ensia, the Tampa Bay Times, and other publications.

Her first book, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., published by the University of Michigan Press in 2007, foresaw the spread of U.S. water conflict to the relatively wet eastern half of the country. Mirage won the Gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards and was named by the Tampa Bay Times as one of the top 10 books that every Floridian should read.[11] Her second book, Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis, published by Beacon Press in 2011, reported on water solutions from Australia to Singapore and articulated a water ethic for the United States. It also described a “water-industrial complex” that influences U.S. water policy toward twentieth century supply-side projects. Blue Revolution was named one of the best science books of 2011 by The Boston Globe. Writing in the Globe, author Anthony Doerr described Barnett’s author persona as “part journalist, part mom, part historian and part optimist.”[12]

For her third book, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, she set out to draw a broader audience with a popular topic, weather, and a lyrical approach to water and climate – “more poetry than pipelines,” she says in her public lectures. Rain was published in 2015 by Crown, a division of Random House, and widely lauded for Barnett’s nature writing and ability to translate science for a general audience.[4][13][14][15][16] Rain was longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing, Gold medal winner for best general nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards, and named a best book of 2015 by NPR’s Science Friday, The Boston Globe, the Tampa Bay Times, the Miami Herald and Kirkus Reviews.[17]

Barnett is also Environmental Journalist in Residence at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, where she teaches Environmental Journalism and Nature & Adventure Journalism.[18] She is a critic of environmental communication targeted exclusively to conservation audiences and encourages students to reach “the Caring Middle.” She first wrote about the Caring Middle in a commencement address to the Unity College class of 2012 in Unity, Maine.[19][20]

Bibliography

Books

  • Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-47211-563-1.
  • Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis. Boston: Beacon Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-80700-317-6.
  • Rain: A Natural and Cultural History. New York: Crown Publishing Group. 2015. ISBN 978-0-80413-709-6.

Interviews

  • Cynthia Barnett (April 22, 2015). “Rain, Rain (Don’t) Go Away.” Interview with Tom Ashbrook, WBUR-FM.[21]
  • Cynthia Barnett (June 1, 2015). "Making 'Rain' for the Caring Middle." Interview in the Journal of the Society of Environmental Journalists.[22]
  • Cynthia Barnett (August 24, 2015). “Environment Writer Interviews: Cynthia Barnett.” Interview with Sarah Boon, Watershed Moments.[23]
  • Cynthia Barnett (October 2, 2015). "A history as right as 'Rain.'" Interview with Collette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times.[24]
  • Cynthia Barnett (January 28, 2016). “Rain’s Complicated Cultural History.” Interview with Michael Krasny, KQED San Francisco.[25]

References

  1. ^ "2015 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction" (PDF). National Book Foundation. September 16, 2015.
  2. ^ "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History | PEN America". pen.org. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  3. ^ "National Book Award nonfiction finalists announced". Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  4. ^ a b "Cynthia Barnett – UF College of Journalism and Communications". www.jou.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  5. ^ "Environment Writer Interviews: Cynthia Barnett". Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  6. ^ Correspondent, Diana Tonnessen. "Florida's lush and intriguing landscape has inspired generations of writers". Retrieved 2016-08-27. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ Star-Banner, Annie Pais Special to the. "Blue muse: Writers inspired by North Florida waters". Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  8. ^ "Knight-Wallace Fellowships – Knight-Wallace". wallacehouse.umich.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  9. ^ "Perspective: A history as right as 'Rain'". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  10. ^ Goodnough, Abby (2007-06-19). "Florida Is Slow to See the Need to Save Water". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  11. ^ "Top 10 books every Floridian should read". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  12. ^ "Draining America: reviews of two recent books on science". Boston.com. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  13. ^ "cynthia barnett - articles". cynthiabarnett.net. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  14. ^ "cynthia barnett - books". cynthiabarnett.net. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  15. ^ "Review: 'Rain' by Cynthia Barnett". Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  16. ^ Streever, Bill (2015-04-17). "'Rain: A Natural and Cultural History,' by Cynthia Barnett". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  17. ^ "cynthia barnett - press". www.cynthiabarnett.net. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  18. ^ "Cynthia Barnett - UF College of Journalism and Communications". Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  19. ^ "Reaching The Caring Middle, One Emerald Lawn At A Time". 2014-10-31. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  20. ^ "News | Unity College | America's Environmental College". www.unity.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  21. ^ "'Rain,' Rain, (Don't) Go Away". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  22. ^ "Making 'Rain' for the Caring Middle". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  23. ^ "Environment Writer Interviews: Cynthia Barnett". Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  24. ^ "Perspective: A history as right as 'Rain'". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  25. ^ "Rain's Complicated Cultural History". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
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