SPEAKING - MENTORING
To engage Cauthen as a speaker or as a consultant to arts/humanities projects (Southern Studies, exhibits, literary projects, oral history collection, folklore, etc.), write to her at cauthen4196@earthlink.net; at NFCDS, 15295 SE 100th Way, White Springs, FL-32096; or call 386-397-1284.
Past clients include the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Museum of Natural History, Alachua County Schools, Brevard County Schools, Hillsborough County Schools, Marion County Schools, Pinecastle Center of the Arts, The Art Center at Maitland, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Historical Society, and The Smithsonian Institution.
Cauthen has taught writing at Florida State University, The University of Central Florida, Lake City Community College, North Florida Community College, at art centers, and in both Fiction- and Poetry-in-the-Schools Programs. She studied writing with Andrew Lytle, Harry Crews, Mary Lee Settle, Doris Grumbach, and Blanche Boyd.
Cauthen earned a Master of Arts in Southern Studies from The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi. SOUTHERN COMFORTS: Rooted in a Florida Place (University of Georgia Press) is her first book. Recognition of her work includes: prizes for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction; a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, and a Human Rights Award from the Baha’i Spiritual Assembly of Greater Gainesville.