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Andrew Furman, Ph.D.

Affiliate Faculty, Jewish Studies | Professor, English | Creative Writing

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Jewish Studies | English | MFA Faculty Program | Creative Writing Program

Boca Raton Campus

About

Andrew Furman is the author, most recently, of the books, The World That We Are (Regal House Publishing 2025), Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness (UP of Florida 2025), Jewfish (Little Curlew Press 2020), Goldens Are Here (Green Writers Press 2018), (UP of Florida 2014), which was named a Finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award, and (Syracuse UP 2010). His fiction and creative nonfiction frequently engages with the Florida outdoors, but he has also written about Jewish identity, basketball, lighthouses, swimming, and cast iron cookware. His essays and stories have appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Santa Monica Review, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Poets & Writers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Agni Online, Terrain.org, and The Florida Review.

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Featured Books

 
Book cover of 鈥淕oldens Are Here: A Novel鈥� by Andrew Furman, featuring a botanical illustration of an orange tree branch with green leaves, white blossoms, and two ripe oranges.

Goldens Are Here

Book cover of 鈥淏itten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida鈥� by Andrew Furman, featuring sunlight filtering through a green forest canopy above a dark, gently rippling river.

Bitten

Book cover of 鈥淢y Los Angeles in Black & White: Almost鈥� by Andrew Furman, featuring a stylized black-and-white photograph of basketball players in numbered Granada uniforms above a close-up of an orange basketball.

My Los Angeles is Black & White

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