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b. 1990 Writer and Photographer

Based in St. Augustine and Sarasota, Florida

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Michael Adno is an artist and writer curious about people’s relationship to place. He's really into Annie Lennox and Stereolab, searching for surf and some other super serious things. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and National Geographic among other magazines. He’s worked on stories about the concentration of psychics in his hometown, how flamingos became a cultural icon in Florida, and how a scientist was imprisoned for alleged espionage. His profile of Ernest Mickler, the author of White Trash Cooking, won a James Beard Award, and his story about worm grunting was anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Susan Orlean. He's obsessed with both orchids and The Orchid Thief, so that was special. He likes to think he's made up of Spanish moss and spoonbill feathers, but his parents are from South Africa and Austria. Recently, he was awarded a grant from New York University called the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award to work on a project about a botanist working with extinct plants in the central Pacific for the Atavist magazine. Currently, Adno is working on his first museum solo-show and a couple other demented projects. He spends most of his time at the beach with a curly dog named Georgia and likes the word diabolical a lot.

Commissions

My writing is represented by Janis Donnaud, and my photographs are represented by David Castillo.

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