Nancy Klingener is Community Affairs Manager for the Monroe County Public Library, South Florida’s oldest public library with branches from Key Largo to Key West and the Florida Keys History Center, the premiere archive for documents and images about the history of the Keys.
From 2015 to 2022, she was the Keys reporter for WLRN, South Florida's public radio station. Besides WLRN, her radio stories appeared on NPR, Here & Now and Marketplace.
She has lived in Key West since 1991 and has worked as a staff writer for The Miami Herald, editor of Solares Hill (a news and culture weekly) and news editor of The Key West Citizen, the Florida Keys' only daily newspaper. For five years she worked at the Monroe County Public Library in Key West.
In 2021, she won First Place for Blog Writing for her twice-monthly newsletter, The Tieline, Second Place for Arts Reporting, and a story to which she contributed and mixed won First Place for Best Use of Sound and Feature Reporting. She was a finalist for Journalist of the Year in 2018 as part of the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sunshine State Awards. She has also won the First Place Award for Editorial Writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors and contributed to Elevation Zero, WLRN's Green Eyeshade Award-winning project about sea level rise in South Florida.
She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a Bachelor's Degree in English, Magna Cum Laude, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She also holds a Master's in the Humanities from California State University-Dominguez Hills and is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop.
Nancy serves on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar. She lives in Key West with her husband Mark Hedden, a writer, photographer and semi-professional birder, and their PointBull, June.
Twitter and IG: @keywestnan
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