Thomas Peter BennettThomas Peter Bennett is Florida born. He graduated from Florida State University, earned his doctorate in biochemistry from Rockefeller University, and became an assistant professor at Harvard. After a brief tenure as a professor at the University ofKentucky, he returned to Florida State University as professor and chair of biological sciences and later served as special assistant to the president and acting executive vice president of the university. He began museum work in 1976 as the president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and, after a decade, returned to Florida. At the University of Florida, he was professor and director of the Florida Museum of Natural History for another decade. Continuing as a courtesy professor at the university, Bennett became the president of Science Service and the publisher of Science News in Washington, DC. He became executive director of the South Florida Museum in 1998 and emeritus director in 2006. He is the author of many scientific and educational articles and books, most recently The Legacy: South Florida Museum, as well as poems and poetry collections. His poems have been published in Poet Talk, Poet, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Goose River Anthology, Café Review, and Puckerbrush, among others. His collections include A Celebration of John and William Bartram, Nature as One Sees It, The River Widens, Hike On, and others. Bennett resides with his wife, Gudrun Dorothea, in Maryland, where he writes and pursues nature and museum interests, often returning to Florida in the winter. Read More Read Less