Who’s Behind This Blog?

Nancy Klingener is a recovering journalist, aspiring librarian and addicted reader in Key West, Florida. She has lived on the island for 18 years and has worked for The Miami Herald, Blue Heron Books, Westwinds guesthouse, The Ocean Conservancy, The Key West Citizen, Solares Hill and Florida Keys Community College. These days, she’s at the Monroe County Public Library’s May Hill Russell Branch in Key West. She is also a board member of the Key West Literary Seminar. She is married to Mark Hedden, formerly Florida’s Most Powerful Birding Columnist (TM), now a budding birding mogul. They have no children, which leaves them plenty of time to dote on their extremely goodlooking but not particularly well behaved German shorthaired pointer, Coffee.