Sudye Cauthen, founder of the North Florida Center for Documentary Studies, directed Florida’s first Folk-Arts-in-the-Schools program. Her awards include two State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature and her book, SOUTHERN COMFORTS: Rooted in a Florida Place won a 2007 Florida Book Award for Nonfiction.

Her work has appeared in such publications as the Chattahoochee Review, Florida Review, International Quarterly, Kalliope, and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Cauthen lives on the Suwannee River near White Springs, Florida.