Cynthia Barnett is a long-time environmental and science journalist who has reported on water from the Suwannee River to Singapore. She is the author of Mirage, which won the gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards, and Blue Revolution, which was named by the Boston Globe as one of the top 10 science books of 2011. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and their two children.